Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South - Diane Miller Sommerville

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up t...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's mos...

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

Reducere. A collective biography about five influential leaders of the Civil Rights Era Part of a new series on the Civil Rights Movement for ages 12 to 15 f...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Reducere. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

The logical dilemma goes something like this: God is before all things and the creator of all things God is sovereign over all that transpires. Evi...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

Reducere. A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movemen...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chris Docker(Expanded edition. For previous reviews, please see http: //www.amazon.com/dp/1482594099) With 844 pages, it is...

An in-depth look at the history and construction of campaign furniture during the Civil War, told through the lens of the frontier city of St. Loui...

A detailed and insightful chronological study of the war, including the decisive encounters, profiles of important political and military figures, ...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitm...

Reducere. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industr...

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

DescriptionHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no smal...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the fateful winter and spring of 1865, thousands of civilians in South Carolina, young and old, black and white, felt the impact ...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

Reducere. During the fateful winter and spring of 1865, thousands of civilians in South Carolina, young and old, black and white, felt the impact of what Gen...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Rob HaleIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 2017Dimens...

Reducere. John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the tur...

Reducere. DescriptionJUNE 4, 1863... As the sun began to set below the horizon across the May River estuary, smoke clouds still billowed from the burning hom...

Reducere. Too far north, the great state of Maine did not witness any Civil War battles. However, Mainers contributed to the war in many important ways. From...