Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
The Enigmatic South
Toward Civil War and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American...
Smithsonian Civil War
Inside the National Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes pictures of each general and important people, places, and events in their lives*Includes an introduction for each president*Includes a Table of Contents*Includes bibliographies for each presidentDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely...
Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course...
by Terry Tuley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The period from 1861–1865 proved to be one of the greatest periods of trial and suffering in our nation's history. A significant lapse of time had passed since America had engaged in the horrors of war. After the war of 1812, little memory remained of the fact that war could be “hell.” A veteran...
Union Heartland
The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical...
Ambivalent Nation
How Britain Imagined the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In Ambivalent Nation, Hugh Dubrulle explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship focused on establishing...
Flora and Fauna of the Civil War
An Environmental Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
During the Civil War, humans impacted plants and animals on an unprecedented scale as soldiers on both sides waged the most environmentally destructive war ever on American soil. Refugees and armies alike tramped across the landscape foraging for food, shelter, and fuel. Wild plants and animals formed...
by Andrew Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
"Military and Naval History of Residents of Kennebunk, Maine who Enlisted During the late Civil War," by Andrew Walker is a short book, but a treasure trove of genealogy, for anyone interested in the soldiers of the American Civil War. It contains the named of all the men who enlisted in...
Sacred Memories
The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
War memorials are symbols of a community’s sense of itself, the values it holds dear, and its collective memory. They inform us more, perhaps, about the period in which the memorials were erected than the period of the war itself.
Kelly McMichael, in her book, Sacred Memories: The Civil War...
The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
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,...
by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
After the Civil...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
Table of Contents for this...
In the Cause of Liberty
How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas -- antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of...