Civil category: 10105 books
While the World Watched
A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl’s restroom she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments...
The Enduring Relevance of Robert E. Lee
The Ideological Warfare Underpinning the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved United States. What will be learned from this book is that General Lee was following in the footsteps...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study investigates the defense of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. Charleston, during this period, is unique because of the diversified nature the military operations...
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict...
Making an Antislavery Nation
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled...
Acting for Freedom
Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over...
A Vast and Fiendish Plot:
The Confederate Attack on New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
New York City, November 25, 1864. Confederate officers attempt to destroy the city with a series of lethal fires that will forever diminish it to a mere speck of an island.
What fueled these Southern patriots' rage? And what if they had succeeded?
This terrifying scenario almost became a reality...
For Slavery and Union
Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for southern independence....
We Do!
American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
“The encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history” (The Philadelphia Tribune).
Through speeches, interviews, and commentary, this book chronicles the road toward marriage equality in the United States,...
The Great Sweepstakes of 1877
A True Story of Southern Grit, Gilded Age Tycoons, and a Race That Galvanized the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1877 the members of the United States Senate postponed all business for the day so that they might attend a horse race—the iconic, polarizing post-Civil War event at the center of this story. The nation, still recovering from the depredations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction that followed,...
by George A. Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
From the Foreword by Elisabeth Lee Rennie: "The twenty-seven letters in this collection of Civil War era letters connect members of one small community in Walton, New York, near the Pennsylvania border. More than historical correspondence from the battlefield to the home front, this primary collection...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 1: The Piedmont
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
“I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the enemy can bring against us, as we have an admirable position & are all ready. I can give you no idea when the general attack will take place. It may be this evening, tomorrow or at any moment as both parties are apparently...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 2: The Mountains
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
“You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service…. Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service…. In all probability our regiment will be stationed here...
North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46
A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported...