Civil category: 10105 books
Killing Dixie
Volume I - The Rise: 1860 to 1861
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
KILLING DIXIEThe Rise and Fall of the Confederate States of America Volume I The Rise: 1860 to 1861 The Killing Dixie volume collection is a chronological, day-to-day account of the activities of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War from its birth to its downfall. Not only is...
Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams
Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 2
The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War tells stories about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the era of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential term and the Civil War. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons....
Civil War Canon
Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent...
A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time
Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria...
On Lincoln
Civil War History Readers, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published...
Civil War Pharmacy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
When the Civil War began, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was concentrated almost exclusively in Philadelphia and was dominated by just a few major firms; when the war ended, it was poised to expand nationwide. Civil War Pharmacy is the first book to delineate how the growing field of pharmacy gained...
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Civil and environmental engineers work together to develop, build, and maintain the man-made and natural environments that make up the infrastructures and ecosystems in which we live and thrive. Civil and Environmental Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive multi-volume...
In Joy and in Sorrow
Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society,...
by James Harvey Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Envision 10,000 mounted men of one of the best cavalries the world has ever produced strung out along 13 miles, marching around Robert E. Lee's right flank, taunting J.E.B. Stuart to come out and fight. In one of the most thrilling and detailed accounts of one of the most important battles of the...
by Thomas Churchill, Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
• Offers latest information on sources and techniques, including online resources
• Contains contact information for hundreds of sources
• Provides examples of specific documents included in genealogical research
It has been more than 40 years since the last comprehensive guide to tracing and...
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
Path Towards Equality: Anti-Discrimination Acts & Most Important Supreme Court Decisions Against Racism
Civil Rights Legislation and Racial Discrimination Law: From the Thirteenth Amendment to the Hate Crimes Prevention Act & from the Strauder v. West Virginia to the Batson v. Kentucky Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This is a unique legal collection comprised of the most important U.S. Civil Rights Acts and Supreme Court decisions considering racial discrimination. Ideals, hopes and dreams of Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Martin Luther King and many other activists who fought for equality, are built in the legislative...
Civil War Citizens
Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also...