Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America - Fergus M. Bordewich

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...

Reducere. Reveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank - Ex...

Reducere. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstructio...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

DescriptionThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three ...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

Reducere. Abraham Lincoln's two great legacies to history--his extraordinary power as a writer and his leadership during the Civil War--come together in this...

Reducere. There were over 600 artillery pieces at Gettysburg. The guns were managed and operated by over 14, 000 men. In three days over 50, 000 rounds were ...

Reducere. The "stimulating, richly informed" (The Wall Street Journal) story behind the Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union on the eve of the Civil...

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever pr...

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DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

Reducere. "Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and importa...

Reducere. Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships, " but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada...

Reducere. In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan...

Reducere. From Strike to ShowThe newsies' strike of 1899 was the last successful child labor riot of the 19th century, but by the time the history books were...

Reducere. "An original book...about individuals who used ideas to change the world" (The New Yorker)--the fascinating exploration into the creation and histo...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Illustrates how diverse the Republican forces were, drawn from loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejected the appeal of rebel generals, a ran...

Reducere. Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

Reducere. Unlike 1945, the First World War did not end neatly with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. After a dramatic week of negotiations, militar...

Publisher: Vintage CanadaAuthor(s): John BoykoIllustration(s): B&W ON TEXT STOCKNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 2...

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In this book - both history and biography, informative and entertaining, meant to be read all at once or in bite-sized chunks - historian Thomas Fl...

Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajo...

DescriptionNo event of the twentieth century aroused as much passion as the Spanish Civil War. People felt compelled to take sides, whether for the...

DescriptionThe previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers...