A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire such as the political ideals

such as the political ideals of the American founding

He was also present at Harpers Ferry

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

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

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire such as the political idealsby 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,