Wittenberg: 40 books
by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The proven rewards of a gender-balanced business.
Scores of studies have shown the benefits to the bottom line of gender-balanced organizations. A handful of smart companies have tapped into the opportunities of today’s female consumer base and talent pool-yet too many companies still struggle...
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.
The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between...
Time Travel
The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices...
Plenty Of Blame To Go Around Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride To Gettysburg
Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter and enduring controversies. Instead of finding...
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
The Civil War's Last Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, fought March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Confederate cavalry, led by Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, launched a savage surprise attack on the sleeping camp of Maj....
Late Love
Mating in Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Many women, and a minority of men, are deciding that ‘adequate’ marriages are inadequate. They are driving an explosion of ‘grey’ divorce and remarriage in the over-50s. With children departing into their own journeys and ever-longer lives stretching out ahead, more mature adults are leaping,...
Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg
The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2 -3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Few aspects of the battle of Gettysburg are as misunderstood as the role played by the cavalry of both sides. Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoffs Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by award-winning author Eric J. Wittenberg is the first and only book to examine...
"The Devil's to Pay"
John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
An award-winning Civil War historian’s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might...
At Custer's Side
Civil War Writing on James Harvey King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the Civil War, James Harvey Kidd fought along side the General George Armstrong Custer as a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry, the Wolverines. A student at the University of Michigan at the outbreak of the ear, Kidd enlisted in 1862 and was elected captain, commanding a company of Wolverines....
Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly
The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Ulric Dahlgren was a brilliant, ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army at the age of twenty-one, yet died before his twenty-second birthday. This is the first biography of Dahlgren, and thankfully it was penned by cavalry expert and award-winning author...
by Eric J. Wittenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
Unlike Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In Little Phil, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war record of a man long considered one of the Union...
Intimate Violence
Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors...
Tales from the Chicago Blackhawks Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Blackhawks Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
As one of the NHL’s original six teams, the Chicago Blackhawks have given their fans millions of heart-stopping memories, thousands of unforgettable stories, and now six Stanley Cup Championships with their recent 2015 win.
Fans of this indomitable team can capture the excitement from the...
Architects of Little Rock
1833-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects working in Little Rock from 1830 to 1950. Thirty-five architects are profiled, including George R. Mann, Thomas Harding, Charles L. Thompson, Max. F. Mayer, Edwin B. Cromwell, George H. Wittenberg, Lawson L....