Civil category: 10105 books
by Berry Craig
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
"United We Stand, Divided We Fall" is Kentucky's motto. Yet the Civil War sharply split the Bluegrass State. Kentuckians fought Kentuckians in some of the bloodiest battles of America's bloodiest war. The names and faces of the winning and losing generals of those battles are in most history books. But...
Civil War Milledgeville
Tales from the Confederate Capital of Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
As the reader is sure to discover in Civil War Milledgeville: Tales from the Confederate Capital of Georgia, the division between combatant and civilian at the local level is not always clear. With a natural curiosity to unearth the unknown, local Milledgeville author and historian Hugh T. Harrington...
Alabama and the Civil War
A History & Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
An examination of the influence of the “Heart of Dixie” on the War Between the States—the key players, places, and politics.
Alabama’s role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama and the Battle...
Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays
Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Civil Disobedience...
The Imagined Civil War
Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage
It was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor...
A Yankee Scholar in Coastal South Carolina
William Francis Allen's Civil War Journals
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
New Englander William Allen (1830–1889) is mostly known today as the lead editor of the 1867 anthology Slave Songs of the United States, the earliest published collection of Negro spirituals, and as a distinguished history professor at the University of Wisconsin. During the Civil War, he served...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
First published in 1849, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Within it, he presents the argument that people should not allow governments to supplant their consciences, and that everyone has an important duty to avoid being pawns for...
Storm over Texas:The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, the battle over Texas marked the crucial moment when...
by Tim Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced...
Law and Order
Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Law and Order offers a valuable new study of the political and social history of the 1960s. It presents a sophisticated account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American...
Women During the Civil War
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
For more information, including a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Women During the Civil War website.
Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia is the first A-Z reference work to offer a panoramic presentation of the contributions, achievements,...
by MacKinlay Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .
MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would...