What Is “Western Civilization”?

From Sevastopol to Separate Spheres

Abolitionist print culture, the Crimean War, and middle-class life in 19th century America

The front and back covers of a book published by J.P. Jewett & Co., 1854

I have written before about how American abolitionists linked the territorial expansionism of “the slave power” with the territorial expansionism of Czarist Russia, drawing a…