Skills
This chapter explores how to acquire new historical knowledge from primary sources and secondary sources, how to analyze and evaluate...
Slavery and the Sectional Conflict
Historians of the nineteenth-century United States recognize the central role of slavery. References to slavery are so clear and so...
The Road to Disunion
The institution of slavery created problems for the United States from the very start. In the early republic, battles emerged...
The Civil War
The American Civil War, the bloodiest in the nation’s history, resulted in approximately 750,000 deaths. The war touched the life...
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, much of the South lay in ruins. “It passes my comprehension to tell what became of...
Reconciliation
The Civil War has often been referred to as the “crucible” of the American nation. The war destroyed and then...