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The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it,...
by P.G.T. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his...
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...
From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights
The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality.
As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely...
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 Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia. After two weeks of service, Clemens abandoned his post and fled westward to begin a writing career -- a turn of events that precipitated...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the...
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
After the American Civil War began in April 1861, Ulysses S. Grant made a meteoric rise to the top of the Union war effort. Illinois. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took place at the Battle of Shiloh; the objective was to destroy the entire Western Union...
The Civil War
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing."- Shelby Foote, from The Civil War
When the illustrated...
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Could the South have won the Civil War?
To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?
Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This Army history publication provides details and analysis of the Civil War from its beginnings in 1816 through its conclusion.
Contents include: Secession, Sumter, and Standing to Arms * The Balloon Experiment * The Baltimore Riots * The Opponents * Anaconda Plan * First Bull Run (First Manassas)...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Vicksburg Campaign: November 1862 - July 1863 - The campaign for the control of Vicksburg was one of the most important contests in determining the outcome of the Civil War. As President Abraham Lincoln observed, "Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key...
Freedom's Pragmatist
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist,...
by Thomas Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
"In many arenas, the Civil War changed things both in military and civilian life," William C. Davis observes. "The roles in society of women and minorities were altered drastically. Advancements in medicine and technology exerted a profound impact on the future. Industry burgeoned....