Tag: IMMIGRANTS CIVIL WAR

This article is part of The Immigrants’ Civil War. Scroll to the bottom for a complete description of the series. Bertram Korn, rabbi and scholar...

This is the fifth installment of The Immigrants’ Civil War. The Civil War officially began with the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861,...

The New York Times has a weekly blog about the Civil War called Disunion. A recent post by Professor Don Doyle of the University...

I just started posting my features on The Immigrants’ Civil War but I began researching them last October. I was prompted to write the...

This is the fourth installment of The immigrants’ Civil War. When Lincoln ran for election to the presidency in 1860, he had a highly developed...

This article is part of the series The Immigrants’ Civil War. A complete list of articles in the series is at the bottom of...

On St. Patrick’s Day, the Smithsonian Channel will offer a live-action documentary recreation of the history of the Irish Brigade during the American Civil...

A complete index of the series is at the bottom of the page. Join us on facebook. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the...

Jews and the Civil War: A Reader Edited by Jonathan Sarna and Adam Mendelsohn NYU Press (2010) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of...