Ordeal By Fire: Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story--that of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The fourth edition welcomes the addition of coauthor James Hogue of University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Hogue brings his Reconstruction expertise to the third section of the book, bringing more up-to-date scholarship and interpretations to the story of repairing a nation. How we evolved from grunting - The Sun
The Sun | How we evolved from grunting The Sun Today we look back on such things as duelling, public executions, witch-burning, naval floggings, ordeal by fire and slavery as barbaric. Yet they were commonly accepted only a few hundred years ago. Some of these may survive in the less civilised ... |
