Civil category: 10105 books
by Howard Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Spires! Treason! Conspiracy! The American Civil War? Civil War spying had all the ingredients of a modern spy movie--just replaces gadgets with Saber's and Colt's.
This book looks at the incredible history of espionage in the Civil War. With a gripping narrative this book will read more like...
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 2
June 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New Approaches to Internationalizing the History of the Civil War Era: A Special Issue
Editor's Note William Blair
Articles
W. Caleb Mcdaniel & Bethany L. Johnson
New Approaches to...
Groundwork
Local Black Freedom Movements in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Over the last several years, the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon, organized primarily by male leaders, that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been complicated by studies that root...
by Richard S. Kirkendall, Roger Daniels, Athan G. Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
President Harry Truman identified himself repeatedly as a champion of civil liberties in the American system of government. Although the pursuit of peace topped his agenda, Communist containment and civil liberties were, in his mind, closely linked. The American Constitution's Bill of Rights was a...
John Washington's Civil War
A Slave Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling it "Memorys of the Past." One hundred and twenty years later, in the early 1990s, historian Crandall Shifflett stumbled upon Washington's forgotten manuscript...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to announce the launch of The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
The journal...
by Dave Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Pit your knowledge of the War Between the States against your friends' and family's claims to expertise with A Civil War Round Table Quiz Book. The book features 117 different quizzes, the subjects ranging from the infamous Dred Scott case to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House. Each quiz...
A Southern Writer and the Civil War
The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the leading explanations for Confederate defeat has been the argument that the Civil War South lacked a national...
by R. Douglas Hurt
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This book provides a perspective into the past that few students and historians of the Civil War have considered: agriculture during the Civil War as a key element of power.
• Provides a succinct survey of agriculture in the North and South directly relating to the Civil War that considers...
At Custer's Side
Civil War Writing on James Harvey King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the Civil War, James Harvey Kidd fought along side the General George Armstrong Custer as a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry, the Wolverines. A student at the University of Michigan at the outbreak of the ear, Kidd enlisted in 1862 and was elected captain, commanding a company of Wolverines....
Civil War Lawyers
Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, and the Men Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
The Civil War Lawyers is a comprehensive and fascinating look at the underappreciated role of the law—and of lawyers—during the United States' Civil War. Great Constitutional issues were addressed by the Supreme Court in tense courtrooms where individual lives were at stake. Presidents struggled...
Recollections of the Civil War
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...
Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2
Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2. Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Dynamics of Multiphysical Systems: From Active Materials to Vibroacoustics, 2016, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and...