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The South's Tolerable Alien
Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the...
Confederate Women and Yankee Men
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook
Facts, Photos, and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, June 9 - July 14, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook is an informative full-color guide for American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages. Authors J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
In the long and storied history of the Marine Corps, its contributions to the Union effort during the Civil War have often been relegated to a mere footnote. An aged officer corps on the defensive against both attacks in Congress and the whims of senior naval authorities, chronic manpower shortages,...
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American...
The Cause of All Nations
An International History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model...
Union Jacks
Yankee Sailors in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the...
by Wade Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South's greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South's fearless stand against "overwhelming...
A Civil War Captain and His Lady
A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
“Barr’s engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front” (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership).
More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie...
by LCDR Edwin D. Lindgren USN
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This study investigates the impact of Confederate naval mine warfare against the operations of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Mine warfare was a cost effective method for the Confederacy to defend its long coastline and inland waterways. A wide variety of fixed, moored, and drifting mines were...
Haskell of Gettysburg
His Life and Civil War Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1989
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The Civil War experiences of Albert C. Ellithorpe, a Caucasian Union Army officer commanding the tri-racial First Indian Home Guards, illuminate remarkable and understudied facets of campaigning west of the Mississippi River. Major Ellithorpe’s unit—comprised primarily of refugee Muscogee Creek...
Rebels on the Border
Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate...
by Sergeant Ralph J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A short but colorful memoir by a sergeant in the 2nd Texas regiment, which served with distinction in the Western Theatre of the Civil War. Sergeant Smith volunteered in the first months of the outbreak of the Civil War, but his first real taste of the conflict came as part of the Army of the Mississippi...