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A Vietnam War Reader
A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict.
The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched...
Border War
Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad, enforcement...
by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of the war. He led a corps or army during most of this time and played important roles in various theaters of the war. But until now, he has been remembered mostly...
The Richmond Campaign of 1862
The Peninsula and the Seven Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000
The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and...
by Kari Frederickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by African...
Disunion!
The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, "disunion" connoted the dissolution of the republic--the failure of the founders' effort to establish a stable and lasting...
The True Image
Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving...
Real Native Genius
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the...
The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy....
A Shattered Nation
The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin...
Battle Hymns
The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting...
Midnight in America
Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the...
With Malice toward Some
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement,...