Civil category: 10105 books
The War Outside My Window
The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty 12-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860--just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the...
MLK: An American Legacy
Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
**Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.,...
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents...
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**Winner of the Lincoln Prize
A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.**
At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world,...
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
A Sensory History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege,...
Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
**National Bestseller **
For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social...
Deep South Dispatch
Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched...
by David Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!
In this brilliant biography-a Pulitzer Prize-winning national bestseller-David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised...
by José Ovalle Favela
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Esta edición, revisada y actualizada en su totalidad, confirma por qué se ha convertido, después de 32 años, en un clásico en la materia. Incorpora las diversas reformas constitucionales y legales, así como las tesis de jurisprudencia y aisladas más recientes. Precisa las relaciones entre la...
by Jim Miles
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The historic battlefields of central Georgia and Savannah ensure that the state’s Civil War ghosts shall rise again . . . and again . . . and again . . .
The Heartland of Georgia, a vast region stretching from Columbus to Savannah and from the edge of Atlanta to Florida, is home to historic...
Voices of Freedom
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Longstreet and other important Civil War generals, as well as maps of battles he fought in. *Discusses the controversies surrounding Longstreet's performance at Gettysburg*Analyzes Longstreet's legacy and the post-war debates among Longstreet and other Confederate generals.*Includes...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's...