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  • The Civil War in Georgia

    A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

    Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and ... Leer más

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  • Love and Duty

    Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss

    Series series Civil War America
    Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials—as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns—to explore white Confederate widows’ stories, examining the records of ... Leer más

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  • Practical Strangers

    The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln

    Series series
    These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved—a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange. As a ... Leer más

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  • Household War

    How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War

    Series series
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Kentucky Women

    Their Lives and Times

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    Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection ... Leer más

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  • A Slave in the White House

    Paul Jennings and the Madisons

    New York Times Bestseller: A "fascinating portrait" of one of the men enslaved by James and Dolley Madison, and his journey toward freedom ( Publishers Weekly).Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, ... Leer más

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  • Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War

    Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853–1865

    This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the ... Leer más

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  • Virginia at War, 1865

    Series series Virginia at War
    The final volume in this comprehensive history of Confederate Virginia examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion.By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate ... Leer más

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  • Burying the Dead but Not the Past

    Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause

    Series series Civil War America
    Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as ... Leer más

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  • The Civilian War

    Confederate Women and Union Soldiers during Sherman's March

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military infrastructure of the Confederacy, Sherman and his army increasingly targeted wealthy civilians in their progress through Georgia and the ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

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    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Leer más

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  • Harriet Tubman

    The Road to Freedom

    The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" ( Newsday).Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, ... Leer más

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