Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Baseball in Blue and Gray
The National Pastime during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 3
September 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture
Joan Waugh
"I Only Knew What Was in My Mind": Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox
Patrick Kelly
The North...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 4
December 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Mark Fleszar
"My Laborers in Haiti are not Slaves": Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835-1846
Jarret Ruminski
"Tradyville":...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Three documents about the American Civil War are reproduced in this unique ebook. The anchor document, U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War: The Civil War in the Western Theater 1862, is a 2014 release of the Army Center of Military History. Topics and subjects covered include Lincoln, Jefferson Davis,...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explores the tactics with which each side attempted to gain advantage, with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local commanders. An enormous...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes 25 pictures of Davis and important people, places and events in his life.*Includes Table of ContentsJefferson Davis (1808-1889) holds a unique place in American history, as the man best remembered for being the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. While other famous Confederates...
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...
Representative Americans
The Civil War Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Americans in the middle decades of the nineteenth century were a people with boundless energy capable of heroic deeds, monumental achievements, and tragic errors. In The Civil War Generation, his newest volume in The Representative Americans series, noted scholar Norman K. Risjord uses biographical...
Climbing Up to Glory
A Short History of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture. The Union defeat of the Confederacy brought African Americans a simultaneous victory over their captors,...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri in 1862, the year such warfare became the primary type of military action there and the year that the state saw almost constant fighting. An enormous variety of sources—military and government records, private...
The Civil War and the West: The Frontier Transformed
The Frontier Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
What happened in the West in the lead-up to and during the American Civil War? The Civil War and the West: The Frontier Transformed provides a clear and complete answer to this question. The work succinctly overviews the West during the antebellum period from 1800 to 1862, supplying thematic chapters...
On the Edge of Freedom
The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania—a border region of a border state with a complicated
history of slavery, antislavery activism, and unequal freedom. During the antebellum decades...
On Lincoln
Civil War History Readers, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
For 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 pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published...
Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd; 1862-1864: Terry's Texas Rangers; Company D; 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment
Civil War Texas Ranger & Cavalry, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd; 1862-1864: Terry's Rangers; Company D; The 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment" by Ephraim Shelby Dodd is the diary of a member of Company D of the storied 8th Texas cavalry regiment also known as Terry's Rangers.
Ephraim Dodd was a member of Company D of this...