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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, Associate Professor of History, Daryl A. Carter, Beau D. Cleland, Emmanuel Dabney, Adam H. Domby, Myisha S. Eatmon, Barbara Gannon, Scott Hancock, William Horne, LeeAnna Keith, Jonathan Lande, Anne Marshall, Jaime Amanda Martinez, Nicole Turner, Samuel Watts ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries ... Read more

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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries
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Final Resting Places

Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves

by Edward L. Ayers, William Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Barbara Gannon, Hilary Green, Anna Gibson Holloway, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle Krowl, Barton A. Myers, Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Danalisa DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, John M. Coski, Michael Gray, Allen Carl Guelzo, Vitor Izecksohn, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Timothy J. Orr, Chris Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana Shoaf, Walter B. Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, Ronald C. White, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, Stephen D. Engle ...

Series Book 24 - UnCivil Wars
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today.In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers ... Read more

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Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how those meanings still influence Americans today.In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America

by James Marten, Caroline E. Janney, Amanda Brickell Bellows, Crompton Burton, Kevin Caprice, Shae Smith Cox, Barbara Gannon, Edward Harcourt, Anna Gibson Holloway0, Jonathan Jones1, Margaret Milanick2, John Neff3, Paul Ringel4, David Thomson5, Natalie Sweet6, Jonathan W. White7 ...

Series Book 16 - UnCivil Wars
Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for veterans rather than soldiers; publishing houses built subscription bases by tapping into wartime ... Read more

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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to sell everything from cigarettes to sewing machines; an entire industry grew up around uniforms made for veterans rather than soldiers; publishing houses built subscription bases by tapping into wartime
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Robert E. Lee and Me

A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

by Ty Seidule ...

"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert ... Read more

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"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert
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The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War

The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War

by Thomas R. Flagel ...

Series series History Buff's Guides
Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and ... Read more

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Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and
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Civil War Stories

A 150th Anniversary Collection

by The Washington Post ...

This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States's collective psyche for 150 years. Civil War Stories: A 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates historical data with ... Read more

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This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States's collective psyche for 150 years. Civil War Stories: A 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates historical data with
... Read more
Slavery and Public History

The Tough Stuff of American Memory

by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...

"A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

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"A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of
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Civil War Memories

Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865

by Robert J. Cook ...

"Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." —Joan Waugh, author of U. S. GrantWinner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American StudiesAt a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a ... Read more

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"Cook makes clear the powerful ways that the reverberations of the Civil War still resonate within American political culture. A compelling story." —Joan Waugh, author of U. S. GrantWinner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American StudiesAt a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a
... Read more
Troubled Refuge

Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War

by Chandra Manning ...

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half ... Read more

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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half
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U. S. Grant

American Hero, American Myth

by Joan Waugh ...

Series series Civil War America
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh ... Read more

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At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings. In U. S. Grant, Joan Waugh
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I Used to Know That: Civil War

by Fred Dubose ...

As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that:The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states to secede. Distinguished soldier and military strategist Robert E. Lee was offered command of the U.S. ... Read more

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As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that:The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states to secede. Distinguished soldier and military strategist Robert E. Lee was offered command of the U.S.
... Read more
The Civil War in Georgia

A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

by Albert Churella, Angela Esco Elder, Anne J. Bailey, Anthony Gene Carey, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood, Brian Brown, Bruce E. Stewart, Bruce Smith, Caroline Dillman, Chris Wilkinson, Clarence L. Mohr, Dan Childs, Dan Du, David McGee, David Wiggins, David S. Williams, David Williams, Debra van Tuyll, Denise Wright, Diane Trap, Edwin Jackson, Franklin Sammons Jr., Garrett W. Silliman, George Justice, Glenna Schroeder-Lein, Gordon L. Jones, Heather Whittaker, Hubert H. McAlexander, Hugh Ruppersburg, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James Turner, James Welborn III, Jarrod Atchison, Jason Manthorne, Jeffrey Young, John D. Fowler, Jun Hyun, Katherine Brackett, Katherine Rohrer, Keith S. Bohannon, Kevin Young, Kyle Osborn, Laura McCarty, Laverne Hill, Leah Richier, Levi Collins, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Melvin Hill Jr., Robert Wilson III, Robert Scott Davis Jr., Stephen Davis, Stephen Huggins, Steve Longcrier, Susan Eva O'Donovan, William Harris Bragg, Richard Houston, Cindy Schmid, Samuel B. McGuire, Sean H. Vanatta, Vanessa P. Tome ...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and
... Read more

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