ANNA - Civil War Period (1850-1877) 1

In April 1865, as the American Civil War drew toward its end, two generals met in a modest farmhouse in North Carolina. There were no cheering crowds and no grand halls; only careful words, revised ……続きを見る

The Civil War is often said to have ended at Appomattox. However, the fighting did not truly stop there. In April 1865, nearly ninety thousand Confederate soldiers remained under arms across the Car……続きを見る

In April 1865, as the American Civil War staggered toward its end, two armies converged on a small North Carolina farm owned by people who never sought history; and could not escape it. James and Na……続きを見る

In juli 1860 komt het laatste slavenschip op Amerikaans grondgebied aan: de Clotilda. Aan boord bevinden zich meer dan honderd gevangengenomen en tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen. Het zijn de laatste oo……続きを見る

Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generationーand how t……続きを見る

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to se……続きを見る

One of the most effective units to fight on either side of the Civil War, the Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia served under Robert E. Lee from the Seven Days Battles in 1862 to the sur……続きを見る

On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American……続きを見る

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s mur……続きを見る

A Civil War Monitor best book of 2020 A group biography of the activists who defended human rights and defined the Republican Party's greatest hour In 1862, the ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Gar……続きを見る

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story “I love this research.” ーHenry Louis Gates Jr., at a Hutchins Center presen……続きを見る

On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; m……続きを見る

In "Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War," Raphael Semmes provides a profoundly personal account of his experiences as a Confederate naval officer. This illustrated edition enhances the na……続きを見る

Filled with diverse letters and diary entries from the archives and rich resources across America, Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades sheds new light on the military events, politics, and personal sacrifi……続きを見る

This much cited work by Johanna Rosa Engelking was originally a Master's thesis. It has now been edited and made available in book form with additional biographical information about this remarkable……続きを見る

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War. In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr. piloted a small skiff across the Cha……続きを見る

The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why. Philadelphia’s 1876 Centen……続きを見る

Includes - 18 maps and 6 illustrations "The role of the field artillery in the Civil War is often overlooked in favor of the more romantic views of great cavalry commanders or infantrymen. But the r……続きを見る

The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print. 続きを見る

A well-researched and exciting tale of the flight of the Confederate Cabinet after the Southern defeat at the end of American Civil War, this book broke new ground, uncovered many new facts and was ……続きを見る

Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)ーa white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to partici……続きを見る

Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year……続きを見る

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging ……続きを見る