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  • Women in Missouri History

    In Search of Power and Influence

    Edited by LeeAnn Whites, Mary C. Neth, Gary R. Kremer ...
    Women in Missouri History is an exceptional collection of essays surveying the history of women in the state of Missouri from the period of colonial settlement through the mid-twentieth century. The women featured in these essays come from various ethnic, economic, and racial groups, from both urban and rural areas, and from all over the state. The authors effectively tell these women’s stories ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Occupied Women

    Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War

    Edited by LeeAnn Whites, Alecia P. Long ...
    In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a staggering 90 percent of eligible white males in the South had joined the military. With their husbands, sons, and fathers away, legions of women took on additional duties formerly handled ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Weirding the War

    Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

    by Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel E. Sutherland, Diane Sommerville, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, LeeAnn Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson0, Michael DeGruccio1, Michael Fellman2, Paul Anderson3, Peter S. Carmichael4, Rodney J. Steward5, Steven E. Nash6, Stephen Berry8, Andrew Slap9, Amy Murrell Taylor0 ...
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    “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Household War

    How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

    by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Stephen Berry, Joan Cashin, Angela Esco Elder, Lorien Foote, Andrew K. Frank, Brian Craig Miller, Julie Mujic, Brooks D. Simpson, Margaret Storey, Jonathan W. White, Victoria E. Bynum ...
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    Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, studying the ways in which the Civil War shaped and was shaped by the American household. They explore how ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

  • The Wreck of the Golden Mary

    by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Percy Fitzgerald, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Rev. James White0 ...
    The anthology 'The Wreck of the Golden Mary' emerges as an evocative tapestry of literary brilliance, weaving together tales of resilience, camaraderie, and survival. Set against the chilling backdrop of a doomed sea voyage, this collection of stories and essays traverses diverse literary styles, from narrative fiction to reflective prose. The thematic unity of shared human endurance in the face ... Read more

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  • The Wreck of the Golden Mary

    A Victorian Shipwreck Anthology of Maritime Peril, Inset Tales, and Shared Storytelling

    by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Percy Fitzgerald, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Rev. James White0 ...
    The Wreck of the Golden Mary gathers six linked narratives within the framing device of a shipwreck, transforming Victorian Christmas reading into a study of survival, memory, and moral responsibility. Its mixture of maritime adventure, domestic realism, confession, verse, and reflective essay gives the volume an unusually varied tonal range. The survivors' accounts—including a haunted tale of ... Read more

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  • The Wreck of the Golden Mary

    Survival, Resilience, and Community: A Victorian Anthology of Shipwreck Stories and Moral Tales

    by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Percy Fitzgerald, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Rev. James White0 ...
    The Wreck of the Golden Mary is an illuminating anthology that masterfully encapsulates themes of human endurance, moral complexity, and the resilience of the human spirit amidst catastrophe. Comprising a vivid tapestry of narrative styles from some of the most respected figures in Victorian literature, this collection offers a dynamic exploration into the psychological and emotional depths faced ... Read more

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    Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    by David W. Blight ...
    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... Read more

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  • For Cause and Comrades

    Why Men Fought in the Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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  • For Cause And Comrades : Why Men Fought In The Civil War

    by James M. McPherson ...
    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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  • A Great Sacrifice

    Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War

    by James G. Mendez ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "Offers readers new insight into the lives of African American men and women from the North in the era of the Civil War." —Liz Regosin, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, St. Lawrence UniversityA Great Sacrifice is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Would Not Be Washington

    Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

    by Jonathan Horn ...
    The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders across a divided land. Both North and South knew Robert E. Lee as the son ... Read more

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