Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
The Hour of Peril
The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." **—**Harlan Coben
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Longstreet and other important Civil War generals, as well as maps of battles he fought in. *Discusses the controversies surrounding Longstreet's performance at Gettysburg*Analyzes Longstreet's legacy and the post-war debates among Longstreet and other Confederate generals.*Includes...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
Stark Mad Abolitionists
Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled...
Women's Work in the Civil War (Civil War Classics)
Profiles in Strength During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. While men fought the battles, it was the women who fought the...
Slavery and Four Years of War
A Political History of Slavery in the United States together with a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War in Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Slavery: Its Political History in the United States, (I.) Introductory — (II.) Introduction of Slavery into the Colonies — (III.) Declaration of Independence — (IV.) Continental Congress: Articles of Confederation — (V.) Ordinance of 1787 — (VI.) Constitution of the United...
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative...
This Wicked Rebellion
Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Over one hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War still fascinates us—the vast armies marching to war, iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, the drama of a nation divided. But the Civil War was also about individuals, the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and boys...
Founders' Son
A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding-Washington, Paine, Jefferson-and their great documents-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution-for...
The Civil War
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and...
The Civil War Guerrilla
Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the...
by Christopher Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the war issue of slavery, which border residents long eschewed as being divisive, became apparent. This book explains how the process of Southernization occurred during and after the Civil...
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s...
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War
Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The letters provide valuable firsthand accounts of evolving attitudes...