A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire whose lives and experiences were

whose lives and experiences were lost and forgotten in the pages of history

“…an empty stone house and fenceless yard were all that was left the widow of seventy years

such as the political ideals of the American founding

Smith’s book also puts the sum of these battles into the larger context of the Vicksburg campaign

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire whose lives and experiences wereby Andrew F. Lang Most mid nineteenth century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England,