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Mockingbird Song
Ecological Landscapes of the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of...
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black...
Lincoln's Autocrat
The Life of Edwin Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton...
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...
Wars within a War
Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment...
by Harry W. Pfanz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, however, the critical first day's fighting finally receives its due. After sketching the background of the Gettysburg campaign and recounting the events...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact...
The Spanish Civil War
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War. Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987 and first published in English in 1991, The Spanish Civil War is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking...
Roots of Secession
Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.
An...
Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad...
Mary Breckinridge
The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to...
Women at the Front
Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full...
Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition
Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as the Confederacy's greatest military idol. The authors address questions of military leadership, strategy and tactics, the campaign's political and social...