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Looking for Longleaf
The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher...
by Eric H. Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.
Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather...
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 Zach Levey
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race--the United States, Great...
Yankee Rebel
The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War. It provides a clear and realistic account of the author's reaction to combat and prison life on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
Originally published 1966.
A UNC Press...
by Mack Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating...
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...
by Carl J. Vipperman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This first scholarly biography of Lowndes establishes his place in history, even though he was overshadowed by contemporaries John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, and provides valuable insights into our understanding of the development and decline of republicanism. Lowndes served in Congress during a time...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all...