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James Garfield and the Civil War
For Ohio and the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his presidency was tragically cut short by his assassination, Garfield's historic life covered some of the most consequential years of American history. From...
This Is Not Civil Rights
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans...
The Struggle for Equality
Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during...
"The Devil's to Pay"
John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
An award-winning Civil War historian’s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might...
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.
The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between...
Art for Equality
The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
Baltimore in the Civil War
The Pratt Street Riot and a City Occupied
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the Civil War was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. En route to Camden Station, Union forces were confronted by angry Southern sympathizers, and at Pratt Street the crowd rushed the troops, who responded with lethal volleys. Four soldiers and twelve Baltimoreans...
by Timothy Brook, B. Michael Frolic
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
Hymns of the Republic
The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives,...
Florida Civil War Blockades
Battling for the Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Florida was the third Southern state to secede from the United States in 1860-61. With its small population of 140,000 and no manufacturing, few Confederate resources were allocated to protect the state. Some 15,000 Floridians served in the Union and Confederate armies (the highest population percentage...
Lincoln, the Rise of the Republicans, and the Coming of the Civil War: A Reference Guide
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This succinct and readable account of the heated debate over the expansion of slavery provides readers with a thorough understanding of how the Civil War was precipitated.
• Supplies a concise, blow-by-blow account of the famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858
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by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
As a career civil servant in the United States government during much of his adult life, Jefferson Davis was a natural choice to be elected President of the seceding Southern states in early 1861. Whether the Civil War would have ended any differently with someone else in charge of the Confederacy will...
by David Dixon Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This 1885 memoir details Porter's Civil War experiences. He gained renown in 1863 by running his fleet past the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg in support of Grant's moves against that city, thus delivering the Mississippi to Union control. He was promoted to admiral in 1870.
by John D. Billings
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery during the Civil War, but he is best known for his 1888 book Hardtack and Coffee, a reference to the most common food and drink given to soldiers during the war. Billings book is not about battles but is instead about everyday...