Civil category: 10105 books
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing...
by Michael J. Varhola, Maureen A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
A panoramic portrait of the United States during its darkest hours.
The Civil War is a fascinating time period in American history. Life in Civil War America provides readers with fast facts and statistics about the 1860s from military life to civilian life in both the North and South. Topics...
by John Hope Franklin, Michael W. Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reconstruction after the Civil War explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and controversial scholarship, John Hope Franklin uses his astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era. His arguments...
Elbert Parr Tuttle
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States...
The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor...
The American Civil War
A Hands-on History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter. Covering events from 1850 and the mounting political pressures to split the Union into opposing sections,...
A Kingdom Divided
Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped...
Forever Free
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.
In...
by Christopher M. Richardson, Ralph E. Luker
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is a guide to the history of the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. The history of this period is covered in a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary...
by David Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism-the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes the tragic...
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative...
A Visitation of God
Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
This book examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and ultimately enabled them to discern the hand of...
The Campaigns for Vicksburg 1862-63
Leadership Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally...
Give Us the Ballot
The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2015
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
An NPR Best Book of 2015
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