Civil category: 10105 books
by Alvin F. Harlow
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
War in any age has depended on the flow of information to and from the decision makers, information passed from the scouts, spies and horse bound messengers to the generals and statesmen in charge. Speed is always key, and in the day of the Civil War, the fastest transmission was by telegraph. As...
One Continuous Fight
The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The titanic three-day battle of Gettysburg left 50,000 casualties in its wake, a battered Southern army far from its base of supplies, and a rich historiographic legacy. Thousands of books and articles cover nearly every aspect of the battle, but not a single volume focuses on the military aspects...
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to...
John Ransom's Civil War Diary
Notes from Inside Andersonville, the Civil War's Most Notorious Prison
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"The Civil War produced many diaries, but few as appealing and readable as this one." — Publishers Weekly
"An altogether exciting and unique, almost priceless documentary." — Library Journal
"A tale of adventure, of suspense from beginning to end, of fierce hate and great...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
CIVIL WAR STORIES The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Rebel Spurs A Son of the Gods A Horseman in the Sky The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Lee in Virginia The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign War from the Inside
Thunder from a Clear Sky
Stovepipe Johnson's Confederate Raid on Newburgh, Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but little-known story of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson-Kentucky legend, Texas hero, and Confederate cavalry officer-who boldly led the first Confederate raid across the Mason-Dixon Line to capture the thriving river-port community of...
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said
The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision ordering the desegregation of America's public schools, is perhaps the most famous case in American constitutional law. Criticized and even openly defied when first handed down, in half a century Brown has become a venerated symbol...
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950
Black Agency and People of Good Will
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950 is a history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black movements, explaining consistent themes and controversies...
by TIME-LIFE Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The name TIME-LIFE has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. TIME-LIFE The Civil War in 500 Photographs is an indispensable guide to a nation-changing era and the military, social, economic, and political forces that...
Simply Murder
The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
They melted like snow on the ground, one officer said—wave after wave of Federal soldiers charging uphill across an open muddy plain. Confederates, fortified behind a stone wall along a sunken road, poured a hail of lead into them as they charged . . . and faltered . . . and died. “I had never...
Civil War Blunders
Amusing Incidents From the War
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
There was little funny about a war in which 620,000 humans died. But it was finding humor amid devastation that kept Civil War soldiers marching toward the enemy. Union or Confederate, those in command proved adept at making mistakes. Many leaders were drunkards, couldn't speak English, didn't know...
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
A History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution.
While the chapters tell the story...
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction brings alive this decisive period in American history by taking the reader beyond the realm of generals, presidents, and the other towering figures of history and introducing fourteen individuals who represent the variety of people who made up...