A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) souvenir A Contribution to the History

A Contribution to the History of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau

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A special section of the book explores the haunted Civil War prisons at Johnson’s Island in Ohio

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A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) souvenir A Contribution to the Historyby 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,