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  • Glorious Courage

    John Pelham in the Civil War

    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A look at Confederate hero John Pelham, separating the real man from Lost Cause mythmaking.“It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!”So declared Confederate General Robert E. Lee on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg as he watched Major John Pelham fight at least five Union batteries with just one lone gun. The dashing and handsome 24-year-old Alabama officer earned ... Leer más

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  • The Confederate Battle Flag

    America’s Most Embattled Emblem

    de John M. Coski ...
    In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Final Resting Places

    Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves

    Series Libro 24 - UnCivil Wars
    Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today.In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers ... Leer más

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  • Robert E. Lee and Me

    A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

    de Ty Seidule ...
    "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Troubled Refuge

    Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

    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

  • The Confederate Nation: 1861–1865

    Series series The New American Nation Series
    "Incisive and insightful. . . . As good a short history of the Southern war effort as we have." —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln and His GeneralsEmory M. Thomas's critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War. Now with a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation ... Leer más

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  • U. S. Grant

    American Hero, American Myth

    de Joan Waugh ...
    Series series Civil War America
    At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh ... Leer más

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  • I Used to Know That: Civil War

    de Fred Dubose ...
    As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that:The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states to secede. Distinguished soldier and military strategist Robert E. Lee was offered command of the U.S. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dogs of War

    1861

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein ... Leer más

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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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  • Civil War Pittsburgh

    Forge of the Union

    de Len Barcousky ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    On Christmas Day 1860, the "Daily Pittsburgh Gazette "announced that more than one hundred cannons from the nearby U.S. Arsenal were to be shipped south. Fiercely loyal to the Union, Pittsburghers halted the movement of the artillery, which would have been seized by secessionist sympathizers. Over the course of the Civil War, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County provided both troops and equipment- ... Leer más

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  • Slavery and The Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn’t Tell You

    de Garry Bowers ...
    NOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.For later ... Leer más

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