In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this stron……続きを見る
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 te……続きを見る
Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, ……続きを見る
Newly annotated by a noted historian, "transforming an important book into a vital foundational document on the inner life of the doomed Confederacy" (William C. Davis, author of Lincoln's Men: How ……続きを見る
Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war effort, from dietary rations to antimalarial drugs to raw……続きを見る
著者:Judith Giesberg
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2017年02月07日
Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of anteb……続きを見る
著者:Judith Giesberg
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of ……続きを見る
G.A. Henry defended a slave in court, but years later he fought for the Confederacy. The question is why?
Continuing the creative nonfiction narrative she began in her first book, All Bones Be White……続きを見る
All Bones Be White is the story of Cassy, a slave who was owned by a Revolutionary War hero. Cassy was tried for murdering her owner's youngest daughter, Phenaty. Gustavus A. Henry, a 29-year old la……続きを見る
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Women During the**Civil War: An Encyclopedia i……続きを見る
In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining cros……続きを見る