Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
A History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution.
While the chapters tell the story...
by Wade Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South's greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South's fearless stand against "overwhelming...
Civil War Writing
New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings...
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by Colonel Heros von Borcke
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
Coming all the way from Prussia, Colonel Heros von Borcke travelled further than many soldiers to join the Confederate cause, and was assigned...
by Amy Murrell Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households...
The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Readings and Writings from a Novelist's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections on the Civil War and Reconstruction, from nonfiction to fiction. Included are Madden’s examination of key works by historians James McPherson and Fletcher Pratt, the story of the effort to...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Explains the events that led up to the Battle of Fort Sumter, including the preparations in Charleston Harbor on both sides.Includes accounts of the fighting and reports by Beauregard, Anderson, Doubleday, and other participants.Includes pictures of important people and places.Includes a Table of Contents."I...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 2
June 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tom Watson Brown Book Award
John Fabian Witt
Civil War Historians and the Laws of War
Articles
Chandra Manning
Working for Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps
Michael F....
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2013 Issue -- PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150: A SPECIAL ISSUE
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 4
December 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150
Articles
Introduction
Martha S. Jones, Guest Editor
History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150
James Oakes
Reluctant...
Rethinking the Civil War Era
Directions for Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War. This devastating and formative conflict occupies a permanent place in the nation's psyche and continues to shape race relations, economic development, and regional politics. Naturally, an event...
Intimate Reconstructions
Children in Postemancipation Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia’s Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions of how to define, treat, reform, or protect children were never far from the surface of public debate and private concern in post–Civil War Virginia....
Behind Bayonets
The Civil War in Northern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
A valuable addition to the literature on Ohio and the Civil War
Eminent Cleveland historian David Van Tassel had undertaken the challenge of writing an illustrated history of the Cleveland homefront during the Civil War. Unfortunately, he died in 2000 before completing his manuscript. Historian...
The Story of Cole Younger (Civil War Classics)
From Decorated Soldier to Notorious Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
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.When the Great War ended, his violent life began. Cole Younger...
by Mark A. Swank, Dreama J. Swank
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
As a border state between the North and South during the Civil War, Maryland�s loyalties were strong for both sides. The first casualties of the war occurred during the Baltimore Riot of April 19, 1861, when members of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment were attacked by Confederate supporters while traversing...