http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/96/adrienne-m-naylor Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 15:40:11 -0400 Wed, 20 May 2026 15:40:11 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/121/rethinking-the-american-civil-war-through-the-eyes-of-a-teenager By Adrienne M. Naylor - The legacy of the American Civil War with which we are left is one that emphasizes a participatory American populace, overwhelmingly enthused over and invested in the conflict. Particularly in the North, we are likely to think of a cooperative culture unifying civilians and the enlisted in a shared war effort. Indeed, the popularity of this vision is such that a production currently runs at Boston’s Huntington Theatre called A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration. While self-congratulatory histories of uplift and reconciliation everywhere abound, contradictory records lay... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:22 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/121/rethinking-the-american-civil-war-through-the-eyes-of-a-teenager http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/117/memorializing-sacco-and-vanzetti-in-boston By Adrienne M. Naylor - ‘WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE?’ historian Howard Zinn asked a member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society in November 2008. Zinn had just delivered a lecture for the benefit of the Society on ‘The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti’ to a crowd of at least 250 people overflowing the Dante Alighieri Italian Cultural Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was taken aback that interest in the case was still alive. ‘I didn’t know what to expect. I thought, how many people are still interested in Sacco and Vanzetti? Maybe seven? Ten? Fifteen? I can’t even&mdash... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:47 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/117/memorializing-sacco-and-vanzetti-in-boston