Civil category: 10105 books
by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York
Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern...
Justice for All
Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life’s work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that desegregated Milwaukee Public Schools in...
Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.
The Civil War and America's Great Poet
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
“An energetic study of the famed writer’s time in the nation’s capital and the loves of his life” (Washington Independent Review of Books).
Walt Whitman was already famous for Leaves of Grass when he journeyed to Washington at the height of the Civil War to find his brother George, a Union...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
*Includes nearly 30 pictures of Jackson and the important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes maps of some of Jackson's most famous battles.*Includes a Table of ContentsThomas Jonathan Jackson is one of the most famous generals of the Civil War, but many of the people he continues to fascinate...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
*Includes 30 pictures of Grant and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes anecdotes about Grant's life, such as how Hiram Ulysses Grant came to be known as Ulysses S. Grant.*Includes a Table of Contents.A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
*Includes over 25 pictures of Lee and the important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes maps of the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Second Manassas. *Includes a Table of ContentsWith the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous general in American history...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A vivid account of the early battles, first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: “One of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews).
The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of...
Pickett's Charge
A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A look at one of the most important events of the Civil War in an “almost minute-by-minute account of the most famous infantry charge in history (William C. Davis, Civil War author and distinguished scholar).
The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War, producing over...
Lincoln and the Irish
The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War.
When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner...
The Free State of Jones and The Echo of the Black Horn
Two Sides of the Life and Activities of Captain Newt Knight
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Subject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississippi county.
Soldier, Father, Rebel. Outlaw. A man of deep convictions, Captain Newt Knight disagreed with the...
The New York City Draft Riots
Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1991
For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black...
The Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town's ex-slaves and a white lawyer's historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army...
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart. Based on research in manuscript collections, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and regimental histories, this comprehensive volume reflects outstanding Civil War scholarship.
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by Isaac Newton Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...