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Army Life
A Private's Reminiscences of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Army Life : A Private's Reminiscences of the Civil War is an amazing account of one Union soldier's experiences during the Civil War. Private Gerrish fought in some of the Civil War's most famous Battles as part of the 20th Maine Regiment, and was a hero of the Pine Tree State.
On Shattered Ground
A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A WIDE-RANGING COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS
This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended. With historical sources ranging from public documents,...
The Civil War Quiz Book
1,600 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge of America's Most Divisive Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
If you think you know a lot about the Civil War, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every battle of the war, commanders and ordinary soldiers, weapons, and armies, this book will test the knowledge of even the most dedicated history buff. Degrees of...
Civil War Commando
William Cushing's Daring Raid to Sink the Invincible Ironclad C.S.S. Albemarle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2020
"I…recommend that Lieutenant William B. Cushing, US Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for his important, gallant and perilous achievement in destroying the rebel ironclad steamer Albemarle.
–Abraham Lincoln to Congress, December 18, 1864
Civil War Commando is the incredible tale...
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the...
by Tiyi M. Morris, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 1
March 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Nicholas Marshall
The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War
Sarah Bischoff Paulus
America's Long Eulogy for Compromise: Henry Clay and American Politics, 1854-58
Ted Maris-Wolf
"Of...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
A Biography of the Song That Marches On
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War...
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil...
by P.G.T. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his...
by Glen Golle
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book contains complete skill review sets that will help the examinee to acquaint with the different type of test or examinations that will likely be given in the Civil Service Examinations and the different directions for every test type. This book was specially designed & analogous to the...
The War Before the War
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
**Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018
"Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates
The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War**
For...
Beyond Redemption
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists...