It didn’t go too well; the ship was lost in a storm, but Semmes wrote up his adventures in “Service Afloat and Ashore During ...

The book challenges the traditional narrative that the Civil War ended neatly in April 1865 with the surrender ... such as the story of a Confederate ship in the North Pacific attacking the New ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South ...

(p. 233) Readers will find that The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism offers a convincing look at how the Civil War was related to broader global movements. A useful book for the serious student of ...

this book will help both academics and serious students of the war and post war period better understand the scholarship, but it may be tough going for the more casual reader. The Limits of the Lost ...