The president of Harvard University presents this innovative study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and consequences of death in the face of the unprecedented slaughter of the Civil War. 56 illustrations.
This combination of women's studies and Civil War history is based on the personal writings of women of the Confederacy. It chronicles their inner lives and how they rose to the challenges of a world that demanded changes in their definitions of femininity and their place in society. Many of the women of the ruling class had to reshape their lives ...
An investigation into the experiences of wealthy planters, soldiers, intellectuals, and Confederate women. In this book, attention is given to southern thought and belief, to southern society and culture during the Civil War, and to the role of gender relations within the Confederate South.
Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, ...
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