The second thing is when you get to college and you start looking at the Civil War in a more nuanced way, generally that means race, class and gender. You are not going to look at other aspects in high school. When teaching time is limited, you are just going to stick to the bare essentials. Why is it that more people don’t know about international involvement in the American Civil War? I spoke with the author-born in London, raised in Los Angeles and schooled at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University and Oxford University-about the role Britain, and one particular Brit, Henry Morton Stanley, played in the conflict. Historian Amanda Foreman looked at their personal writings and tells the story of the war and Britain’s involvement in it in her latest book, A World on Fire, recently named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2011. Though often overlooked, more than 50,000 British citizens served in various capacities in the American Civil War.
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