or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack ... Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment ...

It commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war. As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break ...

the Irish vote was an important consideration," said Senior. There was also the just recently concluded Civil War and the British government's complicated relationship with the Confederates.