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Lee And Grant: Images Of Fatherhood In Victorian America, Abigail Cocco
Lee And Grant: Images Of Fatherhood In Victorian America, Abigail Cocco
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Before they were great Civil War generals, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were fathers. Lee had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Grant was the father of three boys and a single girl. Though they are intended to paint overwhelmingly positive portraits of the two men, their children’s words give us a sense of these two generals as fathers and the ways in which they reflected standard trends in fathering during the Victorian Era. [excerpt]
The Howell Brothers: A Costly Sacrifice On The Altar Of Freedom, Jonathan Tracey
The Howell Brothers: A Costly Sacrifice On The Altar Of Freedom, Jonathan Tracey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
This semester, I have been working on the Killed at Gettysburg digital history project, which aims to tell the story of soldiers who died at Gettysburg while also tracking their movements on a map so that they can be followed. I was given Hannibal Howell of Company C of the 76th New York Infantry, and his story proved to be a lot more than I expected. [excerpt]