Reconstruction in Alabama: From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South, Hardcover - Michael W. Fitzgerald

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

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. 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. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

Reducere. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws th...

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

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. This memoir i...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philip JowettIllustration(s): 8 Colour plates of artwork; 8 Colour plates of artworkNumber of pages:...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Defending South Carolina's Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River, area native Rick Simmons relates the often overlooke...

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Thi...

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

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

Reducere. America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New...

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

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes a dramatic narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the Bri...

DescriptionThe Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of war...

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

Reducere. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Undergrou...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

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

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...

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

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...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

The Vietnam War: A History in Documents - Marilyn B. Young, John J. Fitzgerald, A. Tom Grunfeld

Reducere. Follow Folly as he celebrates Mardi Gras in Alabama! Hang on tight; he wants to see every parade in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Folly has a front-...