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The Trophies Of Victory And The Relics Of Defeat: Returning Home In The Spring Of 1865, Peter S. Carmichael
The Trophies Of Victory And The Relics Of Defeat: Returning Home In The Spring Of 1865, Peter S. Carmichael
History Faculty Publications
The remains of a lone apple tree, cut down and carved into small pieces by Confederate soldiers, lay along a rutted dirt road that led to the village of Appomattox Court House. Earlier on 9 April 1865, Robert E. Lee had waited under the shade of the apple tree, anxious to hear from Ulysses S.Grant about surrendering his army. Messages between the generals eventually led to a brief meeting between Lee and two Union staff offices who then secured the parlor in Wilmer McLean's house, where Grant dictated the surrender terms to Lee. As soon as the agreement was signed …
[Review Of] From Oligarchy To Republicanism: The Great Task Of Reconstruction. By Forrest A. Nabors (Columbia, University Of Missouri Press, 2017) 358 Pp. $45.00, Mark Wahlgren Summers
[Review Of] From Oligarchy To Republicanism: The Great Task Of Reconstruction. By Forrest A. Nabors (Columbia, University Of Missouri Press, 2017) 358 Pp. $45.00, Mark Wahlgren Summers
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Select List Of Books In Mexican-American History (2018 Update), John R. Chavez
A Select List Of Books In Mexican-American History (2018 Update), John R. Chavez
History Faculty Publications
This list of secondary sources includes surveys and monographs, but few collections or biographies; while some works may overlap disciplines, their content is historical on the whole and focused significantly on ethnic Mexicans in the United States.
[Review Of] Karolyn Smardz Frost And Veta Smith Tucker, Eds., A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, And The Underground Railroad In The Detroit River Borderland. Detroit, Mi: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Pp. 286. $34.99 (Paper)., Vanessa Holden
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Whole Lot Of Blame To Go Around: The Confederate Collapse At Five Forks, Peter S. Carmichael
A Whole Lot Of Blame To Go Around: The Confederate Collapse At Five Forks, Peter S. Carmichael
History Faculty Publications
While Confederate major general George E. Pickett was finishing his plate of fried fish at a shad bake, Union major general Philip H. Sheridan was devouring Pickett's command at Five Forks. The sounds of the Federal assault were supposedly silenced by abnormal atmospheric conditions called an acoustic shadow. Pickett and his luncheon companions -- Maj. Gen. Thomas Rosser and Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee -- heard nothing over the sounds of conviviality, but the sudden appearance of the courier alerted the dining party to an alarming reality. This solider claimed that he was nearly shot out of his saddle by Federal …
Introduction: Taking Stock Of The State In Nineteenth-Century America, Ariel Ron, Gautham Rao
Introduction: Taking Stock Of The State In Nineteenth-Century America, Ariel Ron, Gautham Rao
History Faculty Publications
The authors discuss the state of the field of the nineteenth-century American state, with a particular focus on recent problems of conceptual frameworks. They then introduce the contributions to a forum on this topic.
German And American Transnational Spaces In Women's And Gender History, Shelley Rose
German And American Transnational Spaces In Women's And Gender History, Shelley Rose
History Faculty Publications
Books Reviewed:
Michaela Bank. Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women’s Rights, and Nativism, 1848–1890. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. vi.+ 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-85745-512-3 (cl).
Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, eds. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. vii. +397 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1413-3 (pb).
Lynne Tatlock. German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866, 1917. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2012. ix.+ 347 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-8142-1194-6 (cl).
Hopkins, A.G.: American Empire: A Global History, L. M. Lees
Hopkins, A.G.: American Empire: A Global History, L. M. Lees
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Sklar, Martin J.: Creating The American Century: The Ideas And Legacies Of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders, L. M. Lees
History Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
New Orleans At 300: Documenting The African American Experience, 1718–2018., Mary Niall Mitchell, Connie Zeanah Atkinson
New Orleans At 300: Documenting The African American Experience, 1718–2018., Mary Niall Mitchell, Connie Zeanah Atkinson
History Faculty Publications
This is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of African American History focused on the African American experience in the history of New Orleans, on the occasion of the city's tricentennial.