Civil category: 10105 books
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher...
by Roy L. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary...
by Mark P. Brugh, Julia Stinson Brugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Maryland town devastated by the bloodiest day of the Civil War—the Battle of Antietam—is now home to its ghostly victims.
In September 1862, fighting from the Battle of Antietam spilled into Sharpsburg’s streets. Residents were left to bury the dead from both sides. Today, locals...
Humor and the Civil War
Comedy from America's Darkest Hours
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said he wouldn't have been able to survive the Civil War without his jokes and amusing stories. That war was by far the greatest struggle the United States has ever faced. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the other wars combined. Americans--both North and...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
by Dr. Walter Earl Pittman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of the huge territory, which was mostly wilderness, amid the continuing ancient...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Despite the fact that the Civil War ended over 140 years ago, it remains a polarizing topic for the country to this day. Nowhere is this more evident than in Americans' opinion of Confederate cavalry officer Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest is universally regarded as a courageous and capable cavalry...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes accounts of the fighting at Fort Wagner written by some of the 54th's soldiers. *Profiles men of the 54th, including Robert Gould Shaw *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “A deserted homestead...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Includes pictures of the battle's important generals and locations.Includes several maps of the battle.Includes accounts of the fighting written by important generals like McDowell, Longstreet, Sherman, Beauregard, and more.Includes a Bibliography for further reading.Includes a Table of Contents. "Today...
New Perspectives on the Civil War
Myths and Realities of the National Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...
Echoes from the Boys of Company 'H'
The Seige of Charleston, the Assault on Fort Wagner,The Virginia Campaigns for Petersburg and Richmond, and Prison Life in Andersonville as Chronicled by Civil War Soldiers from the 100Th New York State Regiment, Company H
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Echoes from the Boys of Company H focuses on a few Civil War soldiers from Company H, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers, who were prolific writers. It is based upon a treasure trove of hundreds of letters, journals, and diaries. These writings provide rare insight into life as a common soldier....
From Civility to Survival: Richmond Ladies During the Civil War
The Ladies Reveal Their Wartime Private Thoughts and Struggles in Compelling Diaries and Emotional Memories.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Motivated by their patriotism, the Richmond Ladies were willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the Southern cause. Many sent their husbands and sons to fight for the glory of the South. However, as the war progressed, their sacrifices became harder and harder to bear. They faced shortages of...
The Last Full Measure
The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Since its publication, Richard Moe's The Last Full Measure has garnered a reputation as the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.
The First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to President Lincoln...