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The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy....
God's Almost Chosen Peoples
A Religious History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers...
A Shattered Nation
The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin...
The American Idea
The Literary Response to American Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The American idea," a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature. Carter treats the response to this idea in most of the major and many of the minor writers of the nineteenth century, including Longfellow,...
by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Although Angelina and Sarah Grimke have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century women's rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her contemporaries recognized. Through the use of unpublished...
Battle Hymns
The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting...
by William E. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over which each institution had jurisdiction and studies the procedures by which each functioned. He examines...
Midnight in America
Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the...
With Malice toward Some
Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement,...
by Morton Borden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Borden reveals the ways in which many mainstream Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through interpretation and amendment to alter the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Even though religious...
by Gina M. Martino
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime...
Artisans of Glory
Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own...
Secret Selves
Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and...