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  • The Divided Family in Civil War America

    de Amy Murrell Taylor ...
    Series series Civil War America
    The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting “brother against brother.” The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America’s bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Embattled Freedom

    Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

    de Amy Murrell Taylor ...
    Series series Civil War America
    The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Weirding the War

    Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • Troubled Refuge

    Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

    de Chandra Manning ...
    From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • This Republic of Suffering

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • A Slave No More

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    de Chandra Manning ...
    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $9.99 USD

  • A Great Sacrifice

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • This Mighty Scourge

    Perspectives on the Civil War

    de James M. McPherson ...
    The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Reading the Man

    A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

    de Elizabeth Brown Pryor ...
    **“Pryor’s biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee – chiefly, that he was, somehow, ‘anti-slavery.’” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.comAn “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe) – Winner of The Lincoln Prize**Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic. Using dozens of previously unpublished ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend

    de Catherine Clinton ...
    Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides a vivid social and cultural history of the diverse communities of Southern women during the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Confederate Emancipation

    Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War

    de Bruce Levine ...
    In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war" be freed. In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD