Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy. This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on ...
In LINCOLN, THE WAR PRESIDENT, no fewer than five Pulitzer Prize-winning historians - James McPherson, Carl Degler, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, David Brion Davis, and Robert Bruce - join eminent historian Kenneth Stampp and editor Gabor Boritt to offer a fresh look at how Lincoln confronted the central issues of the Civil War era, throwing sharp new ...
Gabor Boritt leads a team of distinguished historians in probing beyond popular anecdotes and conventional wisdom to offer a fascinating look at the interaction between the president and five key generals.
On the first three days of July in 1863, more than 160,000 Union and Rebel soldiers fought a monumental battle at Gettysburg--a bloody contest that is without a doubt the best known engagement of the war. Yet, for all its prominence, Gettysburg still stirs heated debate. Presenting the insights of nine leading Civil War scholars, this book takes a ...
In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim many lives. Since that day, the debate over the causes of American Civil War has never ceased. This book brings together a collection of voices to recapture the feel of a very ...
Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the Confederacy lay with the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In Jefferson Davis's ...
This volume examines the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War. It focuses on prints of the three most prominent Southern figures of the conflict - Robert E. Lee, Jefferson David and Stonewall Jackson.
On the first three days of July in 1863, more than 160,000 Union and Rebel soldiers fought a monumental battle in Gettysburg, a bloody contest that has been hailed as "the turning point of the Civil War". It is without a doubt the best known engagement of the war and may in fact be the best known battle in American military history. It is ...
Contributors to 'The Historian's Lincoln' focus on one of the most fundamental issues of Lincoln scholarship-whether Lincoln's ultimate commitment was to union or to liberty-shedding new light on a number of opposing views of Lincoln as they do so.
What is the Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania? It is the story of Abraham Lincoln in the Keystone State - the chronicle of where he went what he did, and what he said in the state. The trail begins with Lincoln's Pennsylvania ancestors, moves on to his travels, public appearances, and speeches, and concludes with his funeral train in 1865. The Lincoln ...
Focusing on prints produced in Lincoln's lifetime and in the iconographically important months immediately following his death, this lavishly illustrated volume - now available in paperback for the first time - pairs original photographs and paintings with the prints made from them. Featuring the work of Currier and Ives, John Sartain, and other ...
Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the Confederacy lay with the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In Jefferson Davis's ...
Description: G/vg in dw. History & Development of Warfare-General A comparison of two epic events of US history-the Civil war and the US involvement in World War II. A series of essays by eminent historians. Stephen Ambrose compares the military leaders Grant and Eisenhower; Gerald Linderman examines the wars from the point of view of the combat soldier; Peter Maslowski looks at the role played by spying in the wars; Michael Adams looks at the wars' destructiveness; Russell Weigley maps the evolution of ... read more
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