A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Section-Referance Books A wonderful compliment to A

A wonderful compliment to A Strange and Blighted Land and A Vast Sea of Misery

disposition of POWs

and the war’s effect on civilians in general and women in particular

but they had done their job: they had slowed Jubal Early

the National Park Service maintains the Gettysburg National Military Park

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Section-Referance Books A wonderful compliment to Aby Andrew F. Lang Most mid nineteenth century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England,