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Marketing the Blue and Gray
Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advantage of this readership. They marketed everything from war bonds to biographies of military and political...
The Civil Law Tradition
An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully updated to include the latest developments...
by John R. Vile
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
The carefully selected and edited readings in this book are chronologically arranged so that students can trace the progression of events and understand the thoughts of those living during the critical Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
• Provides readers with annotated primary sources...
Stepping Lively in Place
The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how free, single women navigated life in a busy slave-based river-port town before and during the Civil War, and how these women transitioned during Reconstruction,...
I Am a Man!
Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what...
Andersonvilles of the North
The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the...
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by General Philip Henry Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. - 2 volumes in one
“General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as...
American Civil War Armies (4)
State Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The War between the States' is the term used for the American Civil War throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states agreed; the state governments...
by Sergeant Theodore M. Nagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Sergeant Nagle, a native of Erie New York, recounts his reminiscences of the Civil War in the Eastern theatre 1861-1863.
Nagle spent his soldiering career in the 21st New York State Infantry, 1st Buffalo, joining the Union ranks in the first year of the war. Assigned initially to the Washington...
Behind Enemy Lines
Civil War Spies, Raiders, and Guerrillas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Frequently surprising, sometimes bloody, and always absorbing, Behind Enemy Lines offers up tales of espionage, hit-and-run raids, and guerrilla warfare. The book provides a new perspective on familiar aspects of Civil War history, including shadowy agents, women using their feminine wiles, unashamed...
by Michael C. Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
"First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Carolina's Confederate soldiers. But the state's involvement stretched far beyond these few battles. The state was one of the last to leave the Union but contributed...
by William A. Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the best known Union general of the Civil War and a former president of the United States. Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil is a wonderful overview of Grants life, from his ancestry to his war campaigns, and his service to the country after the war. A table of contents is included for easier navigation.
by Donald B. Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald B. Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theater during the Civil War. In doing so, Connelly illuminates the role of politics in the formulation of military policy,...
The American Civil War (3)
The war in the East 1863–1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Great battles and famous commanders dominated the military history of the Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the period 1863-1865. This book includes revealing details of the clash at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the costliest battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere, but, contrary to common...