This book explores the ambiguity of racial and caste categories in Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is essential for a more nuanced understanding of the role of Americans of African descent in American art history as art...Loe edasi...
A definitive biography that sheds light on the life and times of one of the Civil Wars most important generals.William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known gen...Loe edasi...
Sari: This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496236203)
Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power for the Confederacy in the Eastern Theater. T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250419941)
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to prot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Penguin Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593963517)
A fully revised and updated guide to America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict – 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865707)
When war came to the nation in 1861, Michiganians rallied around the Stars and Stripes and readily agreed with a veteran politician who declared, “He who is not for his country is against her.” Even as the conflict grew bloody and costly, they rem...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865646)
Many a Hand: Michigan and the Civil War brings together familiar and little-known stories about Michiganians who—in facing the nation’s most challenging ordeal—combined courage, doggedness, and ideals to produce an enduring legacy both at h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Post Hill Press, ISBN-13: 9798895652800)
Voice, language, and friendship are at the heart of the story behind Lincoln’s speechwriter.John Hay’s contributions to Abraham Lincoln’s political oratory—including his First Inaugural of March 1861, Springfield Farewell Speech of Feb...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781559451)
The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipients) and one woman between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217599)
A devoutly religious man with an unrelenting disdain for Yankees, Daniel Harvey Hill was among the fiercest warriors to ever stride a battlefield. Controversy trailed him relentlessly, as inescapable as his own shadow. In this groundbreaking cradle-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895274484)
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Circa Press, ISBN-13: 9781911422563)
A compelling visual record of the final days of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond VA, by photographer Brian Rose.If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue wa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375267)
Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor officials in the Confederacy and British terr...Loe edasi...
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities. The Pursuit of Justice is the first boo...Loe edasi...
Explores Confederate General Joseph Johnstons innovative strategies and leadership during the Civil War.Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston’s brilliance in adapting to the evolving art of war set him apart as one of the Civil War’s most in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781559369)
The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipients) and one woman between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghan...Loe edasi...
A pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video gameRed Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since ...Loe edasi...
Following the discovery of gold in 1862 at Auburn and Canyon City, new communities and prospects were established in eastern Oregon. Just as the lure of free land attracted homesteaders and livestock raisers in search of new opportunities, so did...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Nov-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: de Fryske Wrald, ISBN-13: 9783565084098)
The American Civil War did not begin at Fort Sumter in 1861. Its roots stretched back to colonial slavery, sectional divides, and decades of failed compromise. This book traces the full arc of the war and its aftermath, from the earliest cracks in ......Loe edasi...
Lincoln’s Road to War is a day-by-day account unpacking each day’s events, both personal and political, from Lincoln’s inauguration through the attack on Fort Sumter and toward the march to the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas. Follow Li...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217278)
Edited by Stephen Davis, this offers 70 selections pertaining to the Atlanta Campaign. Our hope is that these entries advance the cause of Civil War scholarship by bringing back into print an array of some of the most important writing about the con...Loe edasi...
A series of compelling alternate-history scenarios explores how small shifts in key Civil War moments might realistically have led to a Confederate victory.Based on a series of fascinating what ifs posed by leading military historians, this thought...Loe edasi...
Decades after his death, Stephen C. Fosters (1826--64) family and fans seized upon his birth on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and his role in the burgeoning US music industry to mythologize him as a founding father in A...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197804490)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, womens suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the nation and writing powerful novels, poems, essays,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217575)
The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign was on a par with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, the north Georgia operations have lingered in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217612)
In the fading light of August 28, 1862, an untested Union brigade of Wisconsin and Indiana men fought an unexpected 90-minute stand-up clash with the Confederate veterans of Stonewall Jackson on the Virginia farm fields of John Brawner. None of them...Loe edasi...
The long-standing problem of racism in America is foregrounded as both an obvious and hidden phenomenon. The authors background and vantage on anthropological racism (as a window on all White racism) are discussed. The discussion proceeds to whet...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ambiguity of racial and caste categories in Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is essential for a more nuanced understanding of the role of Americans of African descent in American art history as art...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217735)
Horatio Quiggle was that rarest of Civil War soldiers, serving continuously from the conflict’s outset to its conclusion. His memoir offers a poignant and often humorous recounting of his experiences, imbued with deep humanity. Enlisting as a 23-year...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217797)
After the first attempt to storm Petersburg failed on June 18, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant decided to try again. War weariness was growing in the North. Gold shot up in price. Republicans schemed to replace Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats delayed their no...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217674)
O’Reilly examines the singular struggle at Malvern Hill in depth and from a wide variety of perspectives, including its implications for the war, the armies, the opposing governments, the people, and slavery. He pieces together the tactical movements...Loe edasi...
In this essay collection, leading and emerging scholars provide in-depth analyses of unexamined aspects of the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign, a Union victory and a significant turning point in the Civil War. ...Loe edasi...
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Michael Burns, Blakeney K. Hill, Brian S. Wills, Jonathan M. Steplyk, Sheilah R. Elwardani
Sari: Civil War Campaigns in the West
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9780809339983)
In this essay collection, leading and emerging scholars provide in-depth analyses of unexamined aspects of the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign, a Union victory and a significant turning point in the Civil War. ...Loe edasi...
A definitive biography that sheds light on the life and times of one of the Civil Wars most important generals.William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known gen...Loe edasi...
Sari: This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496236203)
Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power for the Confederacy in the Eastern Theater. T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700640959)
From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle.When Abraham L...Loe edasi...
On July 1, 1863, General Robert E. Lee’s Southerners stumbled into General George Meade’s vanguard of Federal troops near the town of Gettysburg but eventually drove them from the field. The second day of July brought with it hopes for a decisive vic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700641857)
Winner: Laney PrizeIn this fifth and final volume of his renowned series detailing the campaign for Vicksburg, Tim Smith sheds much-needed light to this often-misunderstood episode of the Union’s efforts to take Vicksburg....Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807187531)
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized place in the strategic thinking and public discour...Loe edasi...
Sari: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807187524)
Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Jesse Olsavskys The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. These groups, based...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250419941)
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to prot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611216578)
During the late summer and fall of 1863, the Civil War in the Eastern Theater was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued where they had left off, executing daring marches while boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war in an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611216066)
Antietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasion of Maryland, but it is impossible to do so witho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611216073)
Shepherdstown Ford and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, superbly edited and annotated by Dr. Tom Clemens. Carman includes an invaluable statistical study of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611216059)
When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign that followed included some of the most...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611215328)
The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 when advance elements from the Union Army of the Poto...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611215335)
Winner, 2014, The Douglas Southall Freeman AwardThe wide-ranging and largely ignored operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting began in June of 1864, when advance elements from t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611215441)
The importance of Robert E. Lees first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate. After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611212709)
Tens of thousands of books have been published on the Civil War. In an effort to list some of most important titles, in 1997 the University of Illinois Press published The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography, by David J. Eicher. This well-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611216646)
Mingus’s biography draws upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts to paint a broad, deep, and colorful portrait of one of the South’s most interesting leaders and devoted sons. Complete with original maps and ph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Maple Spring Publishing, ISBN-13: 9798350502428)
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant is the autobiography of the man who, second only to Lincoln himself, was the most important figure in the Northern victory in the Civil War. But this account—which has been popular ever since its first pub...Loe edasi...
A fully revised and updated guide to Americas bloodiest and most divisive conflict 165 years on. Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores the histor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Penguin Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593963517)
A fully revised and updated guide to America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict – 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865707)
When war came to the nation in 1861, Michiganians rallied around the Stars and Stripes and readily agreed with a veteran politician who declared, “He who is not for his country is against her.” Even as the conflict grew bloody and costly, they rem...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865646)
Many a Hand: Michigan and the Civil War brings together familiar and little-known stories about Michiganians who—in facing the nation’s most challenging ordeal—combined courage, doggedness, and ideals to produce an enduring legacy both at h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781634996112)
The soldiers in Hood’s Texas Brigade who fought at Antietam on September 16-17, 1862, described intense and harrowing experiences of the fierce battle in the days, weeks and decades after the battle. Their experiences were written in official reports...Loe edasi...
Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr, Matthew B. Reeves
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081359)
Exploring Civil War camp sites and the lives of the soldiers who lived in them The American Civil War soldier, confined much of the time to his camp, suffered from boredom and sickness. Encampment was not...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Post Hill Press, ISBN-13: 9798895652800)
Voice, language, and friendship are at the heart of the story behind Lincoln’s speechwriter.John Hay’s contributions to Abraham Lincoln’s political oratory—including his First Inaugural of March 1861, Springfield Farewell Speech of Feb...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217650)
Ulysses’s Odyssey is a triumph of research, drawing upon the extensive Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, accounts of fellow travelers, letters, diaries, historic newspapers, and many more sources. Picone reveals Grant’s personality, core decency, and sense...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217711)
As commander of the Valley District, Jackson orchestrated raids against two dams of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, a vital coal carrier serving Washington, D.C. This book provides the first comprehensive account of these important but underst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217773)
In his latest Civil War offering, award-winning historian and professor Neil P. Chatelain unpacks each of these distinct naval theaters of conflict – seas, coastline, rivers, and ocean. Using prolific firsthand accounts merged with keen macro analysi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781559451)
The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipients) and one woman between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217698)
Drawing on extensive original sources—including memoirs, official reports, and soldier letters—and his own invaluable combat experience as a retired Army officer and former West Point military history instructor, Steve Eden offers fresh, authoritativ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217599)
A devoutly religious man with an unrelenting disdain for Yankees, Daniel Harvey Hill was among the fiercest warriors to ever stride a battlefield. Controversy trailed him relentlessly, as inescapable as his own shadow. In this groundbreaking cradle-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217759)
The 258 Texas cavalry sought to fulfill long-held Southern dreams of expanding their influence westward to the gold fields of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean ports of Southern California: a Confederate version of Manifest Destiny from “sea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895274484)
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became...Loe edasi...
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South. It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217551)
The name Point Lookout conjures images of suffering and despair, a notorious Federal prison camp where thousands of Confederate captives endured unimaginable hardships. As the exchange cartel collapsed and relentless campaigns swelled Northern prison...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Savas Beatie, ISBN-13: 9781611217810)
“The man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independence is Mr. John Adams. . . . I call him the Atlas of American independence.”So attested one of the delegates to the Second Continental Congress, moved to support independ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955339)
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366227)
Military biography of Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, whose career led him from West Point to Mexico, Charleston to Appomattox Soldier of the South is the first comprehensive examination of Andersons life, providing a view of a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Circa Press, ISBN-13: 9781911422563)
A compelling visual record of the final days of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond VA, by photographer Brian Rose.If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue wa...Loe edasi...
