The Civil War and Intellectuals of the North

The Civil War stands out as the gravest conflict in American history, between the Revolutionary War and World War II. Termed a Second American Revolution by the Beards in reference to its effect upon the American economy, the Civil War also helped to bring about changes of farreaching importance in other aspects of American life and thought. The minds of the intellectuals of the North were inevitably influenced by the parade of events and in the variety and depth of their reaction to the course of events they contributed an important chapter to the Civil War

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