History · Industrialisation & the Nineteenth Century
A topic within Industrialisation & the Nineteenth Century, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of History.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Grant's own account of his Civil War campaigns, written while dying of cancer to secure his family's finances, and read since as a model of plain, unboastful military narrative.
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Argues that slavery, not tariffs or states' rights, caused the American Civil War, and that Reconstruction's collapse was a political choice whose consequences structured the century that followed.
link checked 17 Sept 2026