Senin, 18 September 2017

Ural on URLs: Gilder Lehrman Institute

http://ift.tt/2wBRNWW My latest book project brought me to “The Civil War Era” subsite of “The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,” and for that I am eternally grateful. This site features some of the nation’s best historians, each explaining complex concepts in an engaging, brief format: George Rable discussing religion in the Civil War, for …

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