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  • The Battlefield and Beyond

    Essays on the American Civil War

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Rosemarie Zagarri, Alan M. Kraut, Leonne Hudson, Michael Connolly, Daniel E. Sutherland, Emory M. Thomas, David Kyvig, Judith Gentry, Herman Hattaway, Ken Nivison, Jane Turner Censer ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

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  • What This Cruel War Was Over

    by Chandra Manning ...
    **Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    by David W. Blight ...
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Civil War

    A Concise History

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Fateful Lightning

    A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The War That Forged a Nation

    Why the Civil War Still Matters

    by James M. McPherson ...
    More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Look Away!

    A History of the Confederate States of America

    by William C. Davis ...
    William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Destructive War

    William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

    by Charles Royster ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The South Vs. The South

    How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

    by William W. Freehling ...
    Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to this question. William Freehling argues that anti-Confederate Southerners--specifically, border state whites and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

    by John Avlon ...
    A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers.As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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