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  • The History of Childhood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult has varied by gender, class, religion, ethnicity, place, and economic need. As author James Marten explores in this Very Short Introduction, so too have the realities of childhood, each life shaped by ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War

    The Biography of a Regiment

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Reimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade, the Sixth was organized in July 1861 and mustered out in the summer of 1865, playing major roles at Second Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and in the Overland ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Texas Divided

    Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874

    by James Marten ...
    The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from within—from fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sing Not War

    The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Civil War America
    After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered — or struggled to reenter — the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century’s “Greatest Generation” attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans.Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Children's Civil War

    by James Marten ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Children — white and black, northern and southern — endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • America's Corporal

    James Tanner in War and Peace

    by James Marten ...
    Series series
    James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away from the dying President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, Tanner eventually became one of the best ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Children in Colonial America

    by James Marten, Philip J Greven ...
    Series Book 3 - Children and Youth in America
    A historical exploration of the childhood experiences of those who grew up and came of age in America's colonized communities.The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

    by James Marten, Paula S Fass ...
    In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lens of War

    Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

    by James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Stephen Cushman, Judith A. Giesberg, James Marten, William Blair, Joseph Glatthaar, Stephen Berry, Stephen Berry0, Caroline E. Janney1, Joan Waugh2, Earl Hess3, Aaron Sheehan-Dean4, Megan Kate Nelson5, Susan Eva O'Donovan6, Emory Thomas7, Harold Holzer8, Brooks D. Simpson9, Ethan S. Rafuse0, Carol Reardon1, Daniel E. Sutherland2, Elizabeth R. Varon3, T. Michael Parrish4, Steven E. Woodworth5, Jane E. Schultz6, Kathryn J. Shively7 ...
    Series series
    Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Children's Table

    Childhood Studies and the Humanities

    by Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...
    Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • 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

    $36.89 USD

  • Lessons of War

    The Civil War in Children's Magazines

    Edited by James Marten ...
    While information regarding children and their outlook on the war is not abun-dant, James Marten, through extensive research, has uncovered essays, editorials, articles, poems, games, short stories and letters that tell the story of the Civil War through the eyes of children. Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines is a collection of such items, gathered from popular children's ... Read more

    $37.29 USD