Forty three year old John Foxworthy and his wife lived the life of the beautiful people on inherited money in an upscale Chicago suburb. But then John impulsive
“Patrick emerges from this diary as the GI Joe of 1861–1865.” —Charles L. Dufour In April, 1861, Private Robert Patrick, a talented clerk in the Commiss
This fresh interpretation explains how an untutored musician changed music while at the same time playing an inadvertent role in the youth rebellion that has sh
After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performa
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