Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center, Hardcover - Gordon L. Jones

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

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Reducere. DescriptionDesperate to seize control of Kentucky, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862, viciously c...

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. Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. Marching armies, ...

DescriptionApril 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the beginning of the American Civil War. It al...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title provides a selection of essays from one of today's foremost Southern historians exploring the past of the American South.

Reducere. DescriptionContinuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a...

Reducere. Desperate to seize control of Kentucky, the Confederate army launched an invasion into the commonwealth in the fall of 1862, viciously culminating ...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

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

On October 8, 1862, forty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers clashed at Perryville, Kentucky, in the state's largest Civil War battle. Of thos...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the United States' Civil War, Confederate Navy Raiders struck fear into the hearts of Union Whalers. Under officers like James Wa...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

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...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Civil War sharpshooters. Now there is a new perspective on the subject in the story of Major W...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

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The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offere...

Reducere. Each year, thousands of visitors from around the country visit the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's re-created eighteenth-century capital of Virg...

Reducere. The Battle of Perryville laid waste to more than just soldiers and their supplies. The commonwealth's largest combat engagement also took an immens...

Reducere. DescriptionHistorian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under con...

DescriptionIn the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atla...

Reducere. DescriptionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civi...

In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Clebur...

Reducere. Over 100 large Battlefield Maps.Loaded with Photos, Illustrations and Discussion.Integrated with online Google Maps & VideosIntegrated with YouTube...

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

DescriptionWashington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental ...

Reducere. A collective biography of the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war that provides the first comprehensive, objective, and dee...

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...