Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) Book cover type:Paperback In Remembering the Civil War

In Remembering the Civil War

Hidden letters never meant to be found

Aprenda sobre la importante batalla que cambió el curso de la Guerra Civil Estadounidense

Lawrence Lee Hewitt became the first manager of the Port Hudson State Historic Site

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Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) Book cover type:Paperback In Remembering the Civil Warby Alys D. Beverton Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New Worlds exceptional republic, unlike other self governing nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, which struggled with political violence and unrest. Americans used such comparisons to show themselves and the world that democracy in the United States was working as designed. The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 exploded this illusion by showing that