Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 2
June 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note
William Blair
Articles
Stephen Cushman
When Lincoln Met Emerson
Christopher Phillips
Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in...
Atlanta
A Portrait of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
When the public envisions Atlanta during the Civil War, two primary images�of two unparalleled individuals�dominate: William Tecumseh Sherman and Scarlett O�Hara; however, there is more to the city�s Civil War heritage than a frowning general and a wily gentlewoman. Within the pages of Atlanta:...
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era
Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious...
The Civil War Years in Utah
The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the Confederacy...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 2
June 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New Approaches to Internationalizing the History of the Civil War Era: A Special Issue
Editor's Note William Blair
Articles
W. Caleb Mcdaniel & Bethany L. Johnson
New Approaches to...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 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 announce the launch of The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
The journal...
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 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...
Civil War Lawyers
Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, and the Men Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
The Civil War Lawyers is a comprehensive and fascinating look at the underappreciated role of the law—and of lawyers—during the United States' Civil War. Great Constitutional issues were addressed by the Supreme Court in tense courtrooms where individual lives were at stake. Presidents struggled...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from prominent lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to enslaved women, from black firemen in southern cities to Confederate émigrés in Latin America—The...
Upon the Fields of Battle
Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...