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1 Jul 2006One of the strengths of the recent historiography of the First World War has been the shift in focus away from the Western Front towards a broader understanding of the conflict as a world war.
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War / Edward Bartlett Rugemer
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30 Apr 2009On the occasion of his famous address commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, delivered in Concord on August 1, 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson highlighted America’s avoidance of slavery’s implications.
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22 Jan 2015Most canonical interpretations of the American Civil War revolve around some facet of the great national contest over the status and future of slavery in the western territories.