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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Leer más

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  • Albert Sidney Johnston

    Soldier of Three Republics

    A biography of the man whom Jefferson Davis could have considered one of his greatest generals during the American Civil War.A revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy's top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War. Albert Sidney Johnston was selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times ... Leer más

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  • The American War

    A History of the Civil War Era

    Full DescriptionIn The American War: A History of the Civil War Era, renowned historians Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh provide a fresh examination of the Civil War, the great defining moment in U.S. history, as well as its aftermath and enduring memory, in a masterful work that prize-winning historian William C. Davis calls "easily the best one-volume assessment of the Civil War to date." By ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Enduring Civil War

    Reflections on the Great American Crisis

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy ... Leer más

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  • Wars within a War

    Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War

    Edición de Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman’s poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant’s imposing tomb, and Hollywood’s long ... Leer más

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  • With the USO in the Pacific During World War II

    The Memoir and Diary of Shirley Rose Gray, June–August 1945

    Shirley Rose Gray’s memoir and diary chronicle her World War II experiences with a USO show in the Pacific Theater during the summer of 1945. Part of comedic film actor Eddie Bracken’s troupe of entertainers, the twenty-two-year-old native of Los Angeles performed on bitterly contested islands such as Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, and Saipan, as well as aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga and ... Leer más

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  • From Dakota to Dixie

    George Buswell's Civil War

    Series series A Nation Divided
    The remarkable account of a Union soldier whose service took him from Indian Country to the heart of the ConfederacyIn the summer of 1862, young Minnesotan George W. Buswell enlisted in the Union army, but his marching orders did not take him to the South to fight the Confederacy, as he had hoped, but to the US-Dakota War. Until the end of 1863, Buswell served with the 7th Minnesota Infantry, ... Leer más

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  • The Union War

    Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.In a searing analysis of the Civil War ... Leer más

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  • Cold Harbor to the Crater

    The End of the Overland Campaign

    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    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 to abandon Richmond. Although many historians have marked Grant’s crossing of the James River on ... Leer más

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  • The Richmond Campaign of 1862

    The Peninsula and the Seven Days

    Edición de Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    The Richmond campaign of April–July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The climactic clash came on June 26–July 1 in what became known as the Seven Days ... Leer más

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  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Leer más

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  • A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

    Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

    Series series Civil War America
    Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War’s longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war’s most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and ... Leer más

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