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  • The Civil War in Popular Culture

    Memory and Meaning

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Randal Allred ...
    "An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." — Strategy PageDividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defeating Lee

    A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser ...
    "Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account." —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of SlaveryFair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg—the list of significant battles fought by the Second Corps, Army of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marketing the Blue and Gray

    Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. ...
    Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advantage of this readership. They marketed everything from war bonds to biographies of military and political leaders; from patent medicines that promised to cure almost any battlefield wound to “secession ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • American Discord

    The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr., T. Michael Parrish, Adam Petty, Charity Rakestraw, Glenn Brasher, Daniel Burge, Katie Deale, Will Greene, Rob Hart, Kevin Hughes, John F. Marszalek, Lindsey Privette, Chris Teeters, Christian McWhirter ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion. Beginning with an overview of the political culture of the 1860s, the collection reveals that most Americans entered the decade opposed to political compromise. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Voices of Civil War America

    Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

    Edited by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr., Ray B. Browne ...
    Series series Voices of an Era
    Letting ordinary people speak for themselves, this book uses primary documents to highlight daily life among Americans—Union and Confederate, black and white, soldier and civilian—during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Focusing on routines as basic as going to school and cooking and cleaning, Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life explores the lives of ordinary Americans ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Master American History in 1 Minute A Day

    by Dan Roberts ...
    Become a US trivia whiz with this crash course through four centuries of change, rebellion, conflict, and triumph in the United States.Where was America's lost colony? What tipped the balance in the Civil War? Were there second thoughts about dropping the atomic bomb?Acclaimed historian Dan Roberts—host of radio's A Moment in Time—takes readers on a bite-sized romp through five-hundred years of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civil War Memories

    Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865

    by Robert J. Cook ...
    "Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." —Joan Waugh, author of U. S. GrantWinner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American StudiesAt a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Civil War in 50 Objects

    by Harold Holzer, New-York Historical Society ...
    The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War.Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Long Civil War

    New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict

    Edited by John David Smith, Raymond Arsenault ...
    "Expands the range of what we consider the Civil War—temporally, geographically, conceptually. It features exceptional, high-quality essays." —Patrick A. Lewis, author of For Slavery and UnionIn this wide-ranging volume , eminent historians John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault assemble a distinguished group of scholars to build on the growing body of work on the "Long Civil War" and break new ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation.An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD