Civil category: 10105 books
by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand, working, in his forties, as a dedicated volunteer throughout the conflict in Washington's overcrowded, understaffed military hospitals. This superb selection of his poems, letters, and prose from the war years, filled with the sights...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
Gambling
Vegas, Birmingham, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A participant’s portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from Harry Belafonte’s memoir of activism and entertainment, My Song.
Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 was one of the most segregated cities in America. It had segregated lunch counters, restrooms, and water fountains....
Ripples Of Hope
Great American Civil Rights Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Including a never-before published speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., this is the first compilation of its kind, bringing together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure....
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Some of America's foremost historians - including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. The Civil War posed a critical test of the...
by Colonel G.F.R. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 - May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most revered Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.[2] His military career includes such famous exploits as the audacious...
by Joshua Chamberlain & H.S. Melcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a man of many hats, both in battle and in the classroom. Chamberlain is known today for being President of Bowdoin College in Maine and being one of the main heroes of Little Round Top while in command of the 20th Maine on Day 2 at Gettysburg. Chamberlains regiment earned...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The Army of the Potomac had pushed Robert E. Lees army out of Maryland in September 1862 after the Battle of Antietam, but President Lincoln and his War Department wanted the army to continue going after the Army of Northern Virginia after it retreated back into Virginia. When George B. McClellan...
Surgeon in Blue
Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on...
by William Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1921. The author, a Canadian was "Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas." The Preface begins: "Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking...
Receding Tide
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
It’s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South’s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege,...
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by General Edward Porter Alexander
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.
“First published in 1907, Military Memoirs of a Confederate is regarded by many historians as one of the most important and dispassionate first-hand...
Victors in Blue
How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North's full house beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed...