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  • Zouave Theaters

    Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

    In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the nineteenth century’s most important military fashion fad for men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. Originating in French colonial Algeria, the uniform was characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez. As Harrison and Brown demonstrate, the Zouaves ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America

    Series series Civil War America
    This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Reconstructions

    New Perspectives on Postbellum America

    Edited by Thomas J. Brown ...
    The pivotal era of Reconstruction has inspired an outstanding historical literature. In the half-century after W.E.B. DuBois published Black Reconstruction in America (1935), a host of thoughtful and energetic authors helped to dismantle racist stereotypes about the aftermath of emancipation and Union victory in the Civil War. The resolution of long-running interpretive debates shifted the issues ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Civil War Canon

    Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina

    Series series Civil War America
    In this expansive history of South Carolina’s commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston’s Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • John Bell Hood: Extracting Truth from History

    The year 2011 brings us the sesquicentennial celebration of the American Civil War. Surprisingly, 150 years later, students continue to find themselves asking many of the same questions about the great national tragedy faced during the centennial in 1961. For example, did slavery cause the great conflict, or did constitutional questions act as the catalyst? Does the Battle of Gettysburg represent ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Remixing the Civil War

    Meditations on the Sesquicentennial

    Edited by Thomas J. Brown ...
    In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that “the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history.” This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true.Essays from specialists in art, literature, and history examine how contemporary culture represents and interprets the Civil War. They look at the works of more ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    "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

  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    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

  • Denmark Vesey’s Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

    **One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor“A fascinating and important new historical study.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.”—Civil War TimesThe stunning, groundb... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confederate Nation: 1861–1865

    Series series The New American Nation Series
    "Incisive and insightful. . . . As good a short history of the Southern war effort as we have." —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln and His GeneralsEmory M. Thomas's critically acclaimed chronicle of the Confederacy remains widely recognized as the standard history of the South during the Civil War. Now with a new introduction by the author, The Confederate Nation ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Conceived and So Dedicated

    Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North

    "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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Civil War in 50 Objects

    The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War.Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty ... Read more

    $6.99 USD