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Two Great Rebel Armies
An Essay in Confederate Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high command.
"Sheds new light on how the South lost...
Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker
The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. After being smuggled along the Rebel Secret Line in...
Civil War Places
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays,...
Protestants in an Age of Science
The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian...
American Originals
Homemade Varieties of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy. Identifying six distinctive types,...
Long Gray Lines
The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...
by Gordon B. McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The mountaineer stereotype--violent people who preserve a traditional lifestyle and vote Republican--has been perpetuated through the years. McKinney found that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic and geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence...
by Earl J. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John Bell Hood desperately fought to stop William T. Sherman's advancing armies as they tried to cut the last Confederate supply line into the city. Confederates...
Racial Discrimination and Private Education
A Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Miller discusses the possible governmental sanctions against integration and the possible ways in which the guarantees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments might be sought and obtained for private schools. He also analyzes the possible effects of discriminatory administrative enforcement of laws...
The American Ascendancy
How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, Michael Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent....
Latino City
Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Latino Cityexplores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands...
When Janey Comes Marching Home
Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even...
Bringing God to Men
American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
During the second half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. Broad-based and ecumenical in the World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally conservative and evangelical. Before and after the Vietnam War, the chaplaincy...
James J. Kilpatrick
Salesman for Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the "Point/Counterpoint" portion...