if there was ever a moment to celibate the public mindedness of the gilder lehrman institute and its for countries history educators that moment is now. have been reminded again and again on the recent past we need to make our collective scholarship and teaching accessible to the generaler public. the unresolved issues at the heart of the american civil war and the legacies of slavery and the fulfillment of freedom are it is of our time. america never needed so much educated k-12 teachers and libraries, and archivists, museums, national parks, colleges and universities this rising generation of student teachers more. i set out to write armies of deliverance with public outreach in mind. the book is an interpretive meant to convey the analytical insights in the modern sensibilities of civil war. scholarship on theiv 21st century. the title of the book captures its arguments that the theme of deliverance is a key to understanding the war there was to savewa the people from confederate destitute. deliverance i argued proved to be an adaptable, political scene that drew followers like a

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