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The Red Atlantic
American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature,...
The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition
Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they...
Andersonville
The Last Depot
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on...
In the Hands of Providence
Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review
"[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An...
The Grand Old Man of Maine
Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went...
Reluctant Rebels
The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause,...
Why Confederates Fought
Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who...
Cold Harbor to the Crater
The End of the Overland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates...
Mutiny at Fort Jackson
The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell...
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery...
by Waldo E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however,...
Civic Myths
A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the...
The Shining Path
A History of the Millenarian War in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President...
by Fred K. Drogula
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a...