The American Civil War

Reducere. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, bor...

DescriptionPerhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3, 500 miles ...

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

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

A unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed a...

Reducere. In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the ...

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...

Reducere. If clothes make the man, who makes the clothes and the trends they inspire? Fashion historian Daniel Delis Hill takes readers on a fascinatingly de...

Reducere. This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was eit...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

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

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Reducere. "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back t...

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

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...

Provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Marilyn Mayer Culpepper's respect for these nineteenth-century wo...

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

Reducere. Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, ...

Reducere. Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750, 000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical pro...

Reducere. The Kentuckian's of the Confederate ArmyThe Orphan Brigade was the nickname given to the First Kentucky Brigade―the largest brigade to be recruited...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then keep reading...Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Reducere. DescriptionThe foot soldier during the American Civil WarThis book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, si...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. "... a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare.... I have long hoped for a sound history of Civ...

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. In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the s...

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. With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were ce...

Reducere. From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows...

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

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...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." --...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Richard B IrwinNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbin...

Reducere. This book is written from the distinct religious perspective of the author. The non-denominational version of this work is called THE COVENANT, LIN...

The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an examination of the post-Civil War migration of former southern slaveholders into Mexico.Illustrations: 6 photog...

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

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

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...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

DescriptionThe American Civil War is one of the most popular periods to wargame, and rightly so - it is a fascinating period of history. Painting M...

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. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

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

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

The mainstream version of the American Civil War has always been nonsensical and irrational. Why? Because it was written by Liberals with an extrem...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic account of Civil War combat This is a justifiably famous account of the Civil War told by an ordinary soldier from within the ...

The seventh action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuth...

Reducere. The foot soldier during the American Civil WarThis book will be of particular interest to all those who study the American Civil War, since it deta...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Reducere. Did you know that the Battle of Shiloh was the bloodiest battle of the US Civil War up to that time?The Battle of Shiloh was fought along the Tenne...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Charles KingNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized meets Alan Weisman's The World Without Us in this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that takes a fi...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Antietam, then keep reading...On September 17th, 1862, US President Abraham Lincol...

"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted l...

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