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The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath
Slavery and the Meaning of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
James Madison
A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia,...
American Night
The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for...
by John G. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and...
Wade Hampton
Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal...
The Land Has Memory
Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment...
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...
The Won Cause
Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans'...
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...