Civil category: 10105 books
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate...
by Robert Penn Warren
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular...
Walk in My Shoes
Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young has been a witness to history and has made his own. During the cvil rights movement, he worked tirelessly as a strategist and negotiator during the campaigns that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and was at Martin...
A Life Constructed
Reflections on Breaking Barriers and Building Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having earned a place at college, he decided to focus on civil engineering. After completing his graduate and...
Texas Rangers History: Life & Services Of General Ben McCulloch, Ross' Texas Brigade, Texas Vendetta; Or The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud In Texas (3 Volumes In 1)
Collected Texas Rangers & Cavalry History, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Victor M. Rose (1842-1893), the author, was an editor, lawyer, poet, and Texas historian born in Victoria Texas. When Texas seceded, Rose joined the Third Texas Cavalry which was incorporated into a brigade, later commanded by General Laurence Sullivan Ross. Ross indelibly stamped his identity on...
Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories
Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
This new edition of this classic collection of stories about Abraham Lincoln includes rewritten introductions to each story that draw relevancies and lessons from this great man of leadership and apply them to the political climate of today.
Each story in this rare and beautiful heirloom collection...
Mary Boykin Chesnut
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
"In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann Woodward
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America....
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.”...
The Road to Dawn
Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.
-He rescued 118 enslaved people
-He won a medal at the first World's Fair in London
-Queen Victoria invited him...
Civil Rights
RHETORIC OR REALITY
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which...
by Lowell H. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against...
Let Us Have Peace
Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S. Grant's military and political careers. In Let Us Have Peace, Brooks Simpson questions such distinctions and offers a new understanding of this often enigmatic leader. He argues that during the 1860s Grant was both soldier and politician,...
The Fate of Their Country
Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession...
Clash of Extremes
The Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between...