Civil category: 10105 books
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies
The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States.
In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized...
Thunder at the Gates
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of...
A People at War
Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval. A People at War brings...
Manufacturing Hysteria
A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America’s struggle to live up to its ideals.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration...
by Samuel Willard Crompton
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Battles, Blood, Honor, and Heroism
The nation’s highest-casualty, bloodiest war is still discussed, studied, and acted out. It continues to affect the political boundaries of today. From the economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict, through the first shots fired at Fort...
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America."
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything...
by Eric H. Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.
Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather...
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.
Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades
The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Acclaimed Civil War historian Susannah Ural brings a unique and fresh insight into the war, delving into the historical archives, in particular the untapped resources of the Gilder Lehrmann Institute. Her consummate narrative draws together these different personal recollections to create a textured,...
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic...
We Have the War Upon Us
The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men...
by Cunningham O. Edward
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
The bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh (April 6-7 1862) changed the entire course of the American Civil War. The stunning Northern victory thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston and forever buried the...