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Military Education And The Emerging Middle Class, Adam Pratt
Military Education And The Emerging Middle Class, Adam Pratt
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Martial Education in the Antebellum South
Many historians of the American South characterize the region as one more prone to violence than the rest of the United States. In her new work, Jennifer Green studies public military schools—institutions, one would think, that would only enabl....Shades Of Gray: A Novel Of The Civil War In Virginia, Jack Trammell
Shades Of Gray: A Novel Of The Civil War In Virginia, Jack Trammell
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A Civil War Love Story
The American Civil War is easily one of the nation’s most dramatic and complicated stages upon which writers of fiction can aspire to perform. Author Jessica James takes up the literary challenge in a sweeping novel, Shades of Gray, which is ultimately a c....Sherman's March In Myth And Memory, Glenn Robins
Sherman's March In Myth And Memory, Glenn Robins
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Analyzing Sherman’s March
In Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown explore the myriad ways in which journalists, historians, fiction writers, and filmmakers have understood and assigned meaning to one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil W....Slavery On Trial: Race, Class, And Criminal Justice In Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, David Silkenat
Slavery On Trial: Race, Class, And Criminal Justice In Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, David Silkenat
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The Law and Slavery in Richmond
In Slavery on Trial, James Campbell explores how race, class, gender, and above all, status were contested in the criminal justice system in Richmond, Virginia. Campbell, a lecturer in American history at the University of Leicester, argues agains....The Rifle Musket In Civil War Combat: Reality And Myth, Terry Beckenbaugh
The Rifle Musket In Civil War Combat: Reality And Myth, Terry Beckenbaugh
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Weaponry and Innovation in the Civil War
Earl J. Hess has demonstrated in recent years that he is one of the top military historians of the American Civil War. His series on fortifications in the Civil War—Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861....Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln And The Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861, Harold Holzer
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln And The Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861, Harold Holzer
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Interview with Harold Holzer
Interviewed by Christopher Childers
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): What drew you to study Abraham Lincoln, especially because you've written so much on him? Harold Holzer (HH): I wish it was a more dramatic story to....The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope Of The Confederacy, Steven Ramold
The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope Of The Confederacy, Steven Ramold
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The Confederacy and Innovation in Naval Warfare
In August 2000, the recovery of the Confederate vessel H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy vessel in combat, revived interest in the innovative craft. Of the numerous books to appear in recent years, Tom ....The Origins Of Proslavery Christianity: White And Black Evangelicals In Colonial And Antebellum Virginia, Eva Sheppard Wolf
The Origins Of Proslavery Christianity: White And Black Evangelicals In Colonial And Antebellum Virginia, Eva Sheppard Wolf
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Christianity and the Defense of Slavery
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity begins by posing a compelling question: why did the majority of Southern Christians fail to hear the moral call of their religion to reject slavery? But this is not solely a book about white Southern e....Saving Savannah: The City In The Civil War, Mary A. Decredico
Saving Savannah: The City In The Civil War, Mary A. Decredico
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The City of Savannah and the Hard War
Scholars are paying increased attention to the role of cities in the antebellum, wartime, and postbellum South. This historiographical trend is refreshing, to say the least, and bids fair to finally overturn the stereotype of a region dominated by ....Southern Storm: Sherman's March To The Sea, Brian Melton
Southern Storm: Sherman's March To The Sea, Brian Melton
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Narrating Sherman’s March
In Southern Storm, Noah Andre Trudeau has given students of the Civil War the most meticulous and comprehensive treatment of the famous March to the Sea to date. In doing so, he brings to life a whole new level of interesting and revealing detail of She....A Southern Moderate In Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892, Robert Tinkler
A Southern Moderate In Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892, Robert Tinkler
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An Alabamian’s Life During the Civil War and Reconstruction
As an Alabama slaveholding politician who opposed secession and later encouraged abolition in Brazil, Henry Washington Hilliard combined seemingly conflicting impulses in a remarkable life and career. David Durham, curator of ....Commemorating The Life Of Lincoln, Christopher Childers
Commemorating The Life Of Lincoln, Christopher Childers
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Two hundred years ago this month, our nation's sixteenth president was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. As so many Americans learned in grade school and have read in numerous books, Lincoln rose from those humble beginnings to become president of a nation in the midst of its....
Race, War, And Remembrance In The Appalachian South, Shannon Wilson
Race, War, And Remembrance In The Appalachian South, Shannon Wilson
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Southern Appalachia’s Civil War
The Southern Appalachian region and its role in the American Civil War have long been the breeding ground of myths and misunderstanding. Berea College President William Goodell Frost characterized the inhabitants of the region as those who owned land bu....Annotations, Cwbr_Editor
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:Rediscovering Lincoln The Writer, David Madden
Rediscovering Civil War Classics:Rediscovering Lincoln The Writer, David Madden
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Abraham Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer By Fred Kaplan New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Among the many titles and sub-titles of biographies of Lincoln, Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, serves to remind us that Lincoln was a writer. In my column this time, I am not redi....
Civil War Treasures: Lincolniana In The Lsu Libraries: Special Collections Houses A Variety Of Materials, Leah W. Jewett
Civil War Treasures: Lincolniana In The Lsu Libraries: Special Collections Houses A Variety Of Materials, Leah W. Jewett
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LSU Libraries’ Special Collections houses items in several collections pertaining directly, and indirectly, to Abraham Lincoln. The sources listed in this column represent a sampling of the library’s holdings. Researchers can find a complete listing of materials – both manuscript items and publicati....
Congress And The Emergence Of Sectionalism: From The Missouri Compromise To The Age Of Jackson, Nicole Etcheson
Congress And The Emergence Of Sectionalism: From The Missouri Compromise To The Age Of Jackson, Nicole Etcheson
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The Long View of Sectionalism
The essays in this collection arose out of conferences sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society. It is frequently the case that such published versions of conference papers are uneven. In the case of this collection, it is not a question of....More Than A Contest Between Armies: Essays On The Civil War Era, Scott L. Stabler
More Than A Contest Between Armies: Essays On The Civil War Era, Scott L. Stabler
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Scholarly Viewpoints on the Civil War Era
This work forms a compilation of annual lectures made at Marquette University in honor of the university’s late historian, Frank L. Klement. Klement, a longtime department member and expert on dissent in the Union during the Civil War, wrote se....Guardian Of Savannah: Fort Mcallister, Georgia, In The Civil War And Beyond, Mark A. Smith
Guardian Of Savannah: Fort Mcallister, Georgia, In The Civil War And Beyond, Mark A. Smith
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Fort McAllister’s Role in the Civil War
Roger S. Durham has examined several aspects of the Civil War along the Georgia coast in his earlier works. In A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine (2004), he chronicled the experi....Artisans In The Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia 1820-1865, Frank J. Byrne
Artisans In The Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia 1820-1865, Frank J. Byrne
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Labor History and the Upper South
Artisans in the Upper South is a fine work of labor history which makes contributions that at the same turn probes critical issues in the fields of slavery, family history, urban studies, and gender as well. L. Diane Barnes’s study offers a compr....Seeding Civil War: Kansas In The National News, 1854-1858, John R. Wunder
Seeding Civil War: Kansas In The National News, 1854-1858, John R. Wunder
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Bleeding Kansas in the Newspapers
The state of “state" history today is a sorry one except for a few. Too many history departments at major universities have decided that state history is not a particular specialty they wish to continue with faculty investment. They have forgotten tha....The Slaves' War: The Civil War In The Words Of Former Slaves, Larry E. Hudson Jr.
The Slaves' War: The Civil War In The Words Of Former Slaves, Larry E. Hudson Jr.
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The Voices of Slaves Speak on the Civil War
Of late Civil War historians have succeeded in balancing the attention they give to battle front and home front: it has become common fare not only to examine the relationship between civilians at home and the rank and file on the battlefield.....The Lincolns: Portrait Of A Marriage, Virginia Laas
The Lincolns: Portrait Of A Marriage, Virginia Laas
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The Lincolns’ Troubled Marriage?
Would that this volume had been a novel. Daniel Mark Epstein, a poet who has also written biographies of such disparate figures as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aimee Semple McPherson and Nat King Cole, has produced a beautifully written book about the marri....A Government Out Of Sight: The Mystery Of National Authority In Nineteenth-Century America, William L. Barney
A Government Out Of Sight: The Mystery Of National Authority In Nineteenth-Century America, William L. Barney
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An Ideological Examination of National Power in the Antebellum America
Brian Balogh, an historian, political commentator, and co-host of the radio show, Backstory with the American History Guys, has blended political theory with the policy inputs of the federal government to reca....John Brown's War Against Slavery, Grady Atwater
John Brown's War Against Slavery, Grady Atwater
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A Fresh Reflection on John Brown’s Ideological Origins
John Brown’s militant abolitionist crusade changed American history. His actions during the guerilla war in Kansas Territory from 1855 to 1858 sparked both violence in Kansas Territory and Missouri and philosophical debate across th....Freedom For Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers In The Civil War Era, David C. Dennard
Freedom For Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers In The Civil War Era, David C. Dennard
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Fighting for Freedom
While many excellent books recount the broad story of African American soldiers who served in the Union army during the American Civil War, Richard M. Reid’s, Freedom for Themselves, is the first such account that focuses exclusively on the experience of bla....General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864, Chandra Manning
General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864, Chandra Manning
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General Sherman’s Georgia Campaign
Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night about World War I and 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 has made Christmas-at-war books into something of a sub-genre, the general theme of which is, war is bad. Savannah for C....The Revenue Imperative, John Majewski
The Revenue Imperative, John Majewski
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Examining the Federal Financial Policy
When I teach my Civil War course, I devote a full lecture to the topic of Union finance. Reflecting conventional wisdom, I tell my students that the nationalistic ideology of the Republican Party helped shape key financial measures, including the ....Civil War Treasures: Hearth And Home, Leah W. Jewett
Civil War Treasures: Hearth And Home, Leah W. Jewett
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Hearth and Home
The holidays and the close of a year bring both joy and sorrow, conjuring up memories of family and friends, those loved and those lost. The pangs of separation--metaphorical or physical, temporary or permanent--grow stronger and more painful at times when people tradit....A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role Of Guerrillas In The American Civil War, Jeremy Neely