The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, Paperback - Edited by Gary W Gallagher and Alan T No

Reducere. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective pa...

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...

Reducere. Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experie...

'Tommy' Lascelles was Private Secretary to four monarchs - and depicted in The Crown. These diaries reveal the inside story of the royal household ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Ty SeiduleNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 209 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation ...

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...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

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

Reducere. Leonard investigates why these women chose unconventional ways to help their cause. In doing so, she gives us a striking portrait of the lives wome...

DescriptionThe six essays in this volume testify to the enduring impact of the Civil War on our national consciousness. Covering subjects as divers...

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

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

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

Reducere. Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurat...

Reducere. In this unique history of the "Lost Battalion" of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspe...

Reducere. The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully ...

DescriptionA lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fiction...

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

Reducere. The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you've been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historia...

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

Reducere. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as ``freedom's swift-winged angels.`` In 1813 th...

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

DescriptionThough few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of h...

Reducere. Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

DescriptionWhen talks of secession gain traction in the Northern press, the son of an immigrant tenant farmer sees an opportunity to change his lif...

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

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

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...

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

Vividly recasting Cuba's politics in the 1930s as transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism durin...

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. The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies over...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles WilsonSoutherners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their c...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the book was prepared, our example was Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" book. Like the timeless work of Sun Tzu, Napoleon's comments on t...

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...

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scho...

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...

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 ...

Presents in print for the first time three plays written by soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France an...

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