Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
1877
America's Year of Living Violently
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
“[A] powerful examination of a nation trying to make sense of the complex changes and challenges of the post–Civil War era.” —Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
In 1877—a decade after the Civil War—not only was the United States gripped...
The National Tribune Civil War Index
A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publishing firsthand accounts penned by the veterans...
The National Tribune Civil War Index
A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publishing firsthand accounts penned by the veterans...
The National Tribune Civil War Index
A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publishing firsthand accounts penned by the veterans...
by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction,...
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.
Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one...
8th Texas Cavalry In The Civil War: Life Record Of H. W. Graber, A Terry Texas Ranger 1861-65; Sixty-Two Years In Texas
Civil War Texas & Cavalry, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
"8th Texas Cavalry In The Civil War: Life Record Of H. W. Graber, A Terry Texas Ranger 1861-65; Sixty-Two Years In Texas" by Henry W. Graber is a short history of this Texas cavalry regiment during the Civil War. Henry W. Graber was a member of Company B, joining as a volunteer private in...
by Steven E. Woodworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by A. James Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Remembered as the "Great War Governor" who led the state of Indiana during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton has always been a controversial figure. His supporters praised him as a statesman who helped Abraham Lincoln save the Union, while his critics blasted him as a ruthless tyrant who abused...
by Sam R. Watkins, William Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
"The Confederate Webfoot: Co. "Aytch"; Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment; Sideshow of the Big Show, Rebel & Private, Front & Rear, 5th Texas Infantry, Company "F" in the Civil War. (2 Volumes In 1)" are first hand accounts of the experiences of the Civil...
Reunion and Reaction : The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1991
Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877 a war had intervened destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South or restore the South...
Remembering Reconstruction
Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar...
The War Before the War
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
**Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018
"Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates
The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War**
For...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians,...