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Civil War Staff Rides, Paul Fessler
Civil War Staff Rides, Paul Fessler
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"Tired of a visit to historic sites looking like the scene from Chevy Chase’s Vacation where they stand as a family looking at the Grand Canyon for 30 seconds and then heading on? In order to make your upcoming summer visit to a Civil War battlefield not only more educational but far more engaging and interesting, consider taking the “staff ride” approach."
Posting about visiting Civil War battlefields from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
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They Both Prayed To The Same God, Scott Culpepper
They Both Prayed To The Same God, Scott Culpepper
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"The influence of faith in the American Civil War was complicated. As Lincoln so astutely observed, both sides prayed to the same God. Both sides believed that God heard them and supported their cause."
Posting about religious views during the American Civil War from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/they-both-prayed-to-the-same-god/
Walt Whitman's Vision Of The Inferno, Or Dante In Drum-Taps, Joshua Matthews
Walt Whitman's Vision Of The Inferno, Or Dante In Drum-Taps, Joshua Matthews
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Divine Comedy As An American Civil War Epic, Joshua Matthews
Divine Comedy As An American Civil War Epic, Joshua Matthews
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This essay argues that nineteenth-century Americans interpreted Dante's Divine Comedy in terms of national and transnational discourses of federalism and republican nationalism, which helped introduce Dante to the United States and boosted the popularity and circulation of his works there. By the late 1840s, Dante--representing an Italy struggling to become an independent nation--was a useful, authoritative voice in political debates over national expansion and states' rights. His role expanded as these debates intensified. During the Civil War, Dante became an important discursive connection between republicanism, the new Italian nation-state, and the struggle to re-unify the American nation--a connection exemplified by …