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....Loe edasi...
This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of Amer...Loe edasi...
For students and scholars of international relations and U.S. foreign policy, this book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to the practices of international society....Loe edasi...
The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslavedfrom the institution to the personal, families and feminist accou...Loe edasi...
The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nations understanding and memory of the common soldier, setting the stage for todays continuing debates about the Civil War and its legacy....Loe edasi...
The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of the war and Reconstruction experience....Loe edasi...
Elite Confederate Women in the American Civil War is a wide-ranging primary source collection that offers a compelling selection of upper-class, white Confederate womens voices from archives across the South....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1933, this 2 volume set tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing from economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Great Depression....Loe edasi...
The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to Americas deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of...Loe edasi...
In The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the way the arts theater, music, fiction, poetry, painting, architecture, and dance were influenced by the war as well as the unique ways that art fu...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the forgotten, the exceptional and the marginal, this collection illuminates the relationship of slavery to the conflicts that defined America in the Civil War era. Analyzing case studies, it offers new perspectives on the nations most t...Loe edasi...
This collection of late antebellum U.S. Senate speeches exemplifies the official statements of the public men from the South, North, and West as they struggled with the questions of national identity and the right of self-government within the conte...Loe edasi...
This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a solid grounding in the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War and introducing key historiographi...Loe edasi...
Covering the political, social, and military history of the era, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri and how these conflicts have been remembered ever since....Loe edasi...
Contextualizing the events before and after the battle, The Battle of Fort Sumter provides the ideal supplement to any course on the American Civil War, American history, or American military history....Loe edasi...
Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal pol...Loe edasi...