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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
The...
Lincolnites and Rebels
A Divided Town in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
At the start of the Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding countryside was predominantly Unionist in sympathy, Knoxville itself was split down the middle, with Union and Confederate...
by William L. Richter
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. There was a very real possibility that the union could have been sundered, resulting in a very different American history, and probably, world history. But the union was held together by tough...
A Buff Looks at the American Civil War
A Look at the United States’ Greatest Conflict from the Point of View of a Civil War Buff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
There have been thousands of books put out about the Civil War, but none by a Civil War Buff, so I wrote one. This book was a produce of five years' work and puts the war in a way that casual fans of the war will be surprised at what took place. This book is in three parts: Civil War Timeline: the...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
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A Short History of the Civil War
Ordeal by Fire
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Novelist, historian, and critic Bernard De Voto calls this book the "best one-volume history of the Civil War I've ever read." David Madden, Director of the United States Civil War Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, considers it "the most powerful of all short histories of the Civil...
Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories From the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...
Appomattox
Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Best Books of...
The Civil War Soldier
A Historical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together landmark scholarship on the subject, from a 19th century account of life as a soldier to contemporary work on women who, disguised...
Living Hell
The Dark Side of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who...
TIME-LIFE The Civil War - On the Front Lines
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
North vs. South. Brother against brother. The War of Northern Aggression. The Civil War, over 150 years in our nation's past, still weighs upon American culture and politics to this day. Now, in an all-new special edition, TIME LIFE brings readers a thorough overview of what remains the largest, longest...
The Education of a Black Radical
A Southern Civil Rights Activist's Journey, 1959-1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
"A strong, uncompromising voice that dreams of a better America, Judge Bailey has experienced the ugliness of both racism and fear. Yet he has not stepped back. What a wonderful life to share." -- Nikki Giovanni, from her Foreword
When four black college students refused to leave the whites-only...
by Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This fascinating illustrated guide is “a must for any Civil War buff visiting or living in New York City” (New York Journal of Books).
Few Americans associate New York City with the Civil War, but the most populated metropolitan area in the nation, then and now, is filled with scores of monuments,...
by Ephraim Douglass Adams, Civil War Classics
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing pivotal 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.Readers of Amanda Forman’s seminal work, A World on Fire will...