The American Civil War

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

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

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): H. W. BrandsIllustration(s): 8 PP of colour photographsNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

"This is a fantastic compilation of some really important pieces of American Literature. If you are a college student or even a motivated high scho...

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. 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 ...

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