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  • Playing at War

    Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games

    by Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Matthew E. Stanley, Daniel Farrell, Dr. James Frusetta, Dr. Jonathan S. Jones, John R. Legg, Dr. Holly Pinheiro, Jacopo della Quercia, Nick Sacco, Dr. David Silkenat, Dr. Kathleen Logothetis Thompson, Dr. Charles R. Welsko, Dr. Katherine L. Brackett, Dr. Stephen Edwards, Aaron M. Phillips, Dr. Erzsebet Fazekas, Christian McWhirter, Blake Hill ...
    Series series American Wars and Popular Culture
    Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • 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

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    by Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Searching for Black Confederates

    The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth

    by Kevin M. Levin ...
    Series series Civil War America
    More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Civil War in Popular Culture

    Memory and Meaning

    by Lawrence A. Kreiser, Randal Allred ...
    "An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." — Strategy PageDividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enduring Civil War

    Reflections on the Great American Crisis

    by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    by Lorien Foote, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai ...
    "Outstanding essays" exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining "intellectuals" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State and the Soldier

    A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States

    by Kori Schake ...
    America's Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from independence to the challenges of the present.The book begins with General Washington's vital foundational example of subordination to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Slavery and The Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn’t Tell You

    by Garry Bowers ...
    NOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.For later ... Read more

    $5.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Military in America

    by Peter M. Karsten ...
    In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq.From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Public History

    An Introduction from Theory to Application

    by Jennifer Lisa Koslow ...
    PUBLIC HISTORYPROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HISTORYPublic History: An Introduction from Theory to Application is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background on the ways in which historians have collected, preserved, and interpreted history with and for public audiences in the United States since the nineteenth century to ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Confederate Women and Yankee Men

    A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

    by Drew Gilpin Faust ...
    Series series UNC Press E-Book Shorts
    When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part ... Read more

    $3.99 USD