Civil category: 10105 books
by Stephen G. Hyslop
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Author James Robertson, one of America's most respected Civil War scholars and storytellers whose weekly talks about little-known people and events of the Civil War aired for 15 years on National Public Radio, brings history to life here in a collection of unexpected and true stories revealing the...
by Andrew W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports...
Fighting Means Killing
Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared.
The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first...
American Queen
The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War ""Belle of the North"" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its Most Beautiful” and Most Intriguing” lists every year.
Kate Chase, the charismatic daughter of Abraham Lincoln's treasury secretary, enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. As her...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1992
James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson...
by Jack L. Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The Civil War that so devastated the United States began a century and a half ago; even so, people continue to disagree on why the North and South went to war. By examining President Abraham Lincolns speeches, along with those of other politicians during the time period, it is possible to identify...
The Language of Liberty
The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2009
The Civil War is a defining event in American history and Abraham Lincoln is the central figure of both the Civil War and American history. In his struggle to preserve the Union and redeem the nation from the original sin of slavery, Abraham Lincoln provided the most compelling expression of the American...
Belligerent Muse
Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 18181895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive...
by Damian Shiels
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Twenty-four stories of the Irish in the U.S. Civil War—true tales of sacrifice, gallantry, and chanceThis is the story of the forgotten role of the 200,000 Irish men and women who were involved in various ways in the U.S. Civil War. It includes the story of James Shields, who challenged Abraham...
The Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
“This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
The Freedom Schools
Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates,...
"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana
The Origins of an Iconic Image
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Chaotic Freedom" is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Gere and currier and carpenter Marshall S. Stearns, both from western Massachusetts. The photograph...
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware
Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood. Excerpt for a leave of absence to fight as a Union general during the Civil War,...