In the 1880s, Mary Boykin Chesnut transformed her wartime journals into one of the most
important first-person accounts and literary works of the Civil War era. With an examination …

This article shows how the episodes in chapters 14 and 23 of Adventures of Huck Finn can
be interpreted as Mark Twain's commentary on America and its problems that persisted …

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's
novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic …

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize–winning fictionalization of the battle of
Gettysburg, which turned fifty in 2024, has been one of the most influential and widely read …

Alcott, Louisa May.“With a Rose.” The Liberator, January 20, 1860. Almeida, Joselyn M.“Conquest
and Slavery in Robert Southey’s Madoc and James Montgomery’s The West Indies.” In …

Abstract Natasha Trethewey's poem “Native Guard” begins and ends with the phrase “Truth
be told,” but the poem demonstrates just how difficult it can be to tell the truth—or even a …

This thesis explores the political evolution and ideological impact of nineteenthcentury
American poetry during and in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. The American Civil …

Although the Civil War and the Great War were fought only fifty years apart, the perceived
time between these two cataclysmic events seems far longer in popular American memory …

This essay explores the political aesthetics of visual and textual representations of ruins
following episodes of urban destruction during the Civil War. Although ruins were long held …

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