Author: Tim McNeesePublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143813049X
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Discusses the history, people, and important events that occurred during the U.S. Civil war era.
The Civil War Era, 1851-1865
Author: Tim McNeesePublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143813049X
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Discusses the history, people, and important events that occurred during the U.S. Civil war era.
The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: Harold HolzerPublisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 1579128459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Collects the complete New York Times coverage of the events in the Civil War, including accounts of battles, personal stories, and political actions, and provides cultural and historical perspective on the published issues.
Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
Author: Susan M. PappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Civil War and American Art
Author: Eleanor Jones HarveyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187335
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Emilie Davis’s Civil War
Author: Judith GiesbergPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271064315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Profiles in Courage
Author: John Fitzgerald KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War
Author: Sebastian N. PagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714177X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.
Battle Cry of Freedom
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199726582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
An American Marriage
Author: Michael BurlingamePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643137352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man—probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.” Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5’2” Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6’4” husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the “ardent abolitionist” that some historians have portrayed. While she providid a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often “crushed his spirit,” as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.