Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
by James Marten
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships,...
by James Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with...
The Great Triumvirate
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1988
Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures...
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American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [6 volumes]
The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion...
A House Divided
The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers toboth the...
We Have the War Upon Us
The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men...
Challenges of Command in the Civil War
Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Dr. Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on “Civil War Generals and Generalship.” The subsequent volume will explore “Civil War Strategy, Operations,...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Now published for the first time, For Country, Cause & Leader offers an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville. This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil...
by Robert I. Girardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Selected from nearly 700 articles that first appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly Times from 1877 to 1889. Corrections of misconceptions about the Civil War. Compelling perspectives on familiar campaigns, personalities, and controversies.
The Passing Of The Armies: An Account Of The Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac,
Based Upon Personal Reminiscences Of The Fifth Army Corps [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“This is one of the finest accounts of a campaign penned by a Federal soldier. . . . A stellar work of Civil War history—a classic.—The...
The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War
Exploring History One Week at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
"A bite of history a day, all year long."
Flawless storytelling, expert research, and a whole new way of providing history in intriguing, one-page essays makes The Seven-Day Scholar: The Civil War a book that anyone interested in the topic will want on their bookshelf.
This...
by Library of Congress, Margaret E. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures...
Conflict and Command
Civil War History Readers, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is...