David Kyvig: 3 books
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.
Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
Explicit and Authentic Acts
Amending the U.S. Constitution 1776-2015?With a New Afterword
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
**Bancroft Prize
Henry Adams Prize
Ohio History Association Book Prize**
In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments,...
Repealing National Prohibition
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S....