A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire by Wayne Soini

by Wayne Soini

its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion

whose lives and experiences were lost and forgotten in the pages of history

This soldier is carrying fifty rounds of ammunition in an imported English Enfield cartridge box

such as the political ideals of the American founding

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) campfire by Wayne Soiniby 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,