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Freedom's Frontier
California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific...
Making Freedom
The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Black Daughter of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography,...
No Chariot Let Down
Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three...
Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Earl J.Hess's study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold...
Hanoi's War
An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader...
At the Precipice
Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion?
At the Precipice seeks to answer...
Vicksburg
The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The Union victory at Vicksburg was hailed with as much celebration in the North as the...
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows,...
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class--including...
The Imagined Civil War
Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related...
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America, the essays in this...