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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan
Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1989
From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books).
No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters...
Troubled State
Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
In his private journals, Franklin Archibald Dick, a St. Louis attorney, Union officer, and provost marshal, wrote of his concerns about keeping Missouri pro-Union during the turbulent Civil War years. His firsthand perspective of important historical events includes the early Camp Jackson incident when...
Civil War Chicago
Eyewitness to History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland. Not only did Chicagoans play an important role in the politics of the conflict, encouraging emancipation and promoting a “hard war” policy against Southern civilians, but they supported...
Citizens and Communities
Civil War History Readers, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Trailblazing essays on the home front from Civil War History
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential articles published in the...
An Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In January 1890, journalist T. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization....
Civil War Washington
History, Place, and Digital Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation’s capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.
Among the many topics covered...
by William J. Cooper Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad...
Uncivil Warriors
The Lawyers' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its...
Two Civil Wars
The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS Essex
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Two Civil Wars is both an edition of an unusual Civil War--era double journal and a narrative about the two writers who composed its contents. The initial journal entries were written by thirteen-year-old Celeste Repp while a student at St. Mary's Academy, a prominent but short-lived girls school...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1998
This new edition of the definitive guide to Civil War battlefields is really a completely new book. While the first edition covered 60 major battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, the second covers all of the 384 designated as the "principal battlefields" in the Civil War Sites Advisory...
New Men
Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...
Bugle Resounding
Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played...
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
Click here to read a review from The British Scholar
“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental...