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One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's class……続きを見る

A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mul……続きを見る

Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passi……続きを見る

Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the S……続きを見る

Penned in 1859, this work was written in response to slavery in America. It is written to highlight the fact that governments act under the authority of God's ultimate government, and that they oug……続きを見る

“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered t……続きを見る

Winner, 2010, Dr. James I. Robertson Literary Prize for Confederate History Award Winner, 2011, The Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award, Given by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central N……続きを見る

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 a staggering number of lives. Si……続きを見る

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the ane……続きを見る

A contemporaneous account of the raids, pursuit and capture of the confederate raider John Morgan. Illustrated.続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all 37 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Ohio at the time of the Great Depression in the Unite……続きを見る

In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its des……続きを見る

*Includes the entire text of Cleburne's 1864 letter proposing to free the Confederacy's slaves.*Includes pictures of Cleburne and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes maps of t……続きを見る

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of r……続きを見る

Jeb Stuart’s bold and unauthorized ride around the enemy in June 1862 is still studied and celebrated as one of history’s most daring intelligence raids. By late May 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan h……続きを見る

" John D. Imboden is an important but often overlooked figure in Civil War history. With only limited militia training, the Virginia lawyer and politician rose to the rank of brigadier general in th……続きを見る

Charles P. Hamblen’s posthumous text provides the first account in more than 25 years of soldiers from the Nutmeg State and their role during the Battle of Gettysburg.Dramatic narrative is interwove……続きを見る

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the best known Union general of the Civil War and a former president of the United States. Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military a……続きを見る

A look at the Armories at Norwich CT. at their peak production during the height of the American Civil War.続きを見る

This book, which takes a bold new look at the Second Manassas Campaign, is full of surprises, including a mistaken mountain, a warning that never was, and Pope's real plan for entrapping Stonewall J……続きを見る

Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his ……続きを見る

How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee fought a horri……続きを見る

2 works of Robert Emmett Rodes Railroad civil engineer and Confederate general in the American Civil War (1829-1864) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Robert Emmett Rodes. A dynamic ……続きを見る

First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnam……続きを見る

When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape a……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the s……続きを見る

In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated,……続きを見る

More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades. Leonard Zesk……続きを見る

This book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductions. As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had……続きを見る