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All Things Were Working Together For My Deliverance: The Life And Times Of Twelve Years A Slave, Mary Niall Mitchell Jan 2014

All Things Were Working Together For My Deliverance: The Life And Times Of Twelve Years A Slave, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

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George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson Dec 2011

George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

In the Civil War Era, German-American botanist George Engelmann regularly measured St. Louis's pressure and temperature--both literally, as a scientist, and figuratively, in his observations on the nation's politics. This essay uses this doubling to explore the place of St. Louis within Civil War America.


More Than Just A Prize: The Civil War And The West, Adam Arenson Dec 2010

More Than Just A Prize: The Civil War And The West, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

How to unify the insights of the history of the Civil War Era and the study of the American West.