Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The Civil War Quiz Book
1,600 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge of America's Most Divisive Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
If you think you know a lot about the Civil War, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every battle of the war, commanders and ordinary soldiers, weapons, and armies, this book will test the knowledge of even the most dedicated history buff. Degrees of...
The Slaveholding Crisis
Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln’s place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners—both slaveholders...
Lincoln's Dilemma
Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Illinois politician had risen to the office of president, the dilemma of slavery had expanded to the...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 1
March 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Nicholas Marshall
The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War
Sarah Bischoff Paulus
America's Long Eulogy for Compromise: Henry Clay and American Politics, 1854-58
Ted Maris-Wolf
"Of...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War...
by P.G.T. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his...
Freedom's Cap
The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also...
by Mark E. Neely
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting that...
Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads
The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre–Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three...
by Darius N. Couch
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
In early May 1863, the Army of the Potomac was at the height of its power as it bore down on Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia near Fredericksburg, where the Confederates had defeated the Union the previous December. Although heavily outnumbered, Lees army persevered and went on to win the...
by Robert R. Hodges Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The American Civil War was the world's first full-blown 'railroad war'. The well-developed network in the North was of great importance in serving the Union armies' logistic needs over long distances, and the sparser resources of the South were proportionately even more important. Both sides invested...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River and in the first few months both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla, converting existing riverboats for naval use. These ships were transformed into powerful naval weapons despite a lack of resources, trained...
by Col. David J. Murphy USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The objective of the research project is to examine how the Union and Confederate naval strategies and new naval technologies affected the conduct of the American Civil War. With regard to the Union Navy’s strategy, the effectiveness of the blockade, Western River Campaign, and amphibious operations...
Don’t Give an Inch
The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army of Northern Virginia, as it launched a bold invasion northward. Meade had hardly wrapped his head...