Several large-N studies have found that a country’s natural resource dependence is correlated with either the likelihood it will suffer from civil war, or the duration of a civil war once it begins. What accounts for these natural resource-civil war correlations? The causal mechanisms behind the correlations are neither obvious, nor wellexplained by the large-N studies. It is important to ident...

Civil wars impose substantial costs on the domestic economy. We empirically measure the economic impact of such internal wars. The paper contributes to the existing literature both theoretically and methodologically. First, it explores the economic channels through which civil war affects growth. Previous studies have shown the negative growth effects of civil wars. We go a step further by iden...

On Saturday, September 19th, local citizens, historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and the rare college student alike converged at the LancasterHistory.org Campus of History for the second day of the President James Buchanan National Symposium. The theme for the symposium was "The Worlds of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan: Race, Gender, and Politics in the Civil War Era," thus it featured the ...

Hunter Holmes McGuire, MD is best recognized as the friend and personal physician of the famous Civil War general, Stonewall Jackson. Two major biographies written about Dr McGuire discuss his life, devoting 40% to 75% of their length to the Civil War.1,2 However, Dr Stuart McGuire (Dr McGuire's son) has published a more balanced biography, which outlines the major contributions Dr McGuire made...

BACKGROUND Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face exposure to combat during wars across the globe. The health effects of traumatic war experiences have not been adequately assessed across the lifetime of these veterans. OBJECTIVE To identify the role of traumatic war experiences in predicting postwar nervous and physical disease and mortality using archival data from military and medical reco...

T he view that multiparty elections in changing authoritarian regimes should be held sooner rather than later has been increasingly under attack. Critics argue that, under conditions of low institutional development, multiparty elections may lead to violence and civil war, rather than to the peaceful allocation of authority that everyone desires. Starting from the premise that elections are str...

Although the Confederate surrenders in April 1865 marked the end of major hostilities of the American Civil War, disputes of interpretation continue to characterise the study of the conduct and outcomes of the War. Whilst this may be simply a feature of all historiography, the extent of these interpretive disputes may well be a direct consequence of the nature of the primary sources that have s...

Antiquarian interest apart, the value of the book for students of ancient medicine ultimately depends on the quality of Caius' textual criticism. As far as the modern editor is concerned, this value is not great. Caius' knowledge of Greek was not particularly sensitive (certainly he was not as good as Cornarius). Nutton is realistic about this throughout, yet he shows a considerable amount of c...