Weblowell’s text explicitly brings under scrutiny the enabling fictions of “america” and “american. ” although the charged exchange between national formation, expansionism,.

As early as 1845, lowell had predicted the debate over slavery would lead to war and, as the civil war broke out in the 1860s, lowell used his role at the review to praise.

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Webthe historical literature on violence in the civil war used to be organized around two positions—that the war was a terrible harbinger of the industrialized violence to come in.

Webthree of the most influential narrative histories of the civil war era open either on mexican soil (those written by allan nevins and james mcpherson) or with the.

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Webhis works include several volumes of verse, the satirical biglow papers (1848 and 1867, prose and verse), and memorial odes after the civil war;

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Webafter the american civil war he expressed his devotion to the union cause in four memorial odes, the best of which is “ode recited at the harvard commemoration”.

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