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Campaigning and fighting during the Civil War caused Union and Confederate soldiers to lose a tremendous amount of sleep. Battle, weather, animals, noises, drill, and rolicking comrades all conspired to deprive soldiers of their much needed rest.
- Space, Time, and Sectionalism
- The Historian's Use of Sectionalism and Vice Versa
- … with Liberty and Justice For Whom?
Historians of the sectional conflict, like their colleagues in other fields, have consciously expanded the geographic and chronological confines of their research. Crossing the borders of the nation-state and reaching back toward the American Revolution, many recent studies of the war's origins situate the clash over slavery within a broad spatial ...
Recent historians have challenged conventional periodization by expanding the chronological scope of the sectional conflict, even as they confirm two key moments of historical discontinuity. This work revises older interpretations of Civil War causation without overturning them. A second trend in the literature, however, is potentially more provoca...
In the model of Civil War causation sketched above, northern voters who joined the Republicans fretted over the fate of liberty in a slaveholding republic. But whose liberty was at stake? Recent scholarship powerfully demonstrates that for moderate opponents of slavery the most damnable aspect of the institution was not what it did to slaves but wh...
- Michael E. Woods
- 2012
During World War II, an epidemic of mental illness in the military helped to focus the fledgling field of psychology on the experiences of soldiers and made their sleep a special source of information. Experiments in drug-induced sleep, commonly used to treat traumatized soldiers, gave clinicians a chance to investigate the emotional effects of ...
Introduction. The US Civil War was the deadliest event in American history by several orders of magnitude. At least 750,000 people died (out of a population of 30 million) and perhaps a million soldiers left the war with injuries. 1 The demographic consequences reflected the regional nature of the conflict—nearly one-quarter of the South’s military-age white men died in the conflict.
Jul 26, 2022 · At the outbreak of civil war, Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens formally renounced the Declaration’s claim that all men are created equal in his “Cornerstone Speech,” proclaiming instead that the new Confederate government was “founded upon exactly the opposite idea . . . , upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [ e ] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
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The term "picturesque" was frequently used to describe African-Americans in the Civil War era. Theories of the picturesque developed by art historians provide different ways of understanding the term, and some critics have even suggested that there is more than one type of "picturesque."
