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  • African American Faces of the Civil War

    An Album

    by Ronald S. Coddington ...
    Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs.A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Untouched by the Conflict

    The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College

    Edited by White, Daniel Glenn ...
    A rare glimpse into the life of one young man who chose not to fightNearly three million white men of military age remained in the North during the Civil War, some attending institutions of higher learning. College life during the Civil War has received remarkably little close attention, however, in part because of the lack of published collections of letters and diaries by students during the war ... Read more

    $24.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cacophony of Politics

    Northern Democrats and the American Civil War

    by J. Matthew Gallman ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864.The party’s ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Civil War Writing

    New Perspectives on Iconic Texts

    by Keith Bohannon, William C. Davis, Matthew Gallman, Sarah Gardner, Kathryn Shively, Brenda Stevenson, T. Michael Parrish, Elizabeth R. Varon ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations and include histories, memoirs, journals, ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • America's Joan of Arc

    The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

    by J. Matthew Gallman ...
    One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades. J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Receiving Erin's Children

    Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855

    by J. Matthew Gallman ...
    Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities, Philadelphia and Liverpool, met the challenges raised by the influx of immigrants.Gallman ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Civil War Places

    Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians

    Edited by Gary W. Gallagher, J. Matthew Gallman ...
    Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the Civil War select a single meaningful place related ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Defining Duty in the Civil War

    Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

    by J. Matthew Gallman ...
    Series series Civil War America
    The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought hundreds of miles away. They read novels, short stories, poems, songs, editorials, and newspaper stories. They laughed at cartoons and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Missing Mask Mystery

    by Carole Marsh Longmeyer ...
    Illustrated by Matthew Gallman ...
    Series series Bluffton Books
    Venice, Italy: Mimi has taken her grandchildren Avery, Ella, and Evan on a surprise trip to the Grand Canal in Venice… only the surprise is on Mimi! She does not realize that her special mystery writing suitcase containing her crucial-to-creativity mystery writing eyeglasses, monster coffee mug, and more had been stolen! Alas, so has a special historical mask that she has been lent to wear to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

  • A Tour of Reconstruction

    Travel Letters of 1875

    by Anna Dickinson ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism, politics, and public affairs, and establishing herself as one of the nation's first celebrities. In March 1875, Dickinson departed from Washington, D.C ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • A Slave No More

    Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    by David W. Blight ...
    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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