Today's Muster features an interview with Dr. Bennett Parten, author of the recently released Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation. Dr. Parton is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. A native of Royston, Georgia, Parton's writing has appeared in the Washington ...
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Most courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction venture only briefly into the American West. Textbooks and lectures often dispense quickly with the region. They make fleeting forays into the Kansas and Missouri border wars, or the military conflict over the Mississippi River, before returning to a familiar North/South narrative ...
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