Tag: Michael Brown
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The American Civil War as a biological phenomenon: Did Salmonella or Sherman win the war for the North?
Michael BrownChicago, Illinois, United States Reexamining Civil War deaths A demographic historian, J. David Hacker, recently discovered an unfortunate truth; using newly digitized data from the 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses, he constructed new estimates of Northern and Southern Civil War deaths. In his pivotal analysis published in 2012, the death toll in the American…