Rev. and updated ed. of: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 2001
... Confederate general 269–70 Helm, Emilie Todd 361 Helm, John L. 269 Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829–1909) 270–71; ... Union general 271–72 Hersey, Eliza Jane 10 Heth, Henry (1825–99) 272–73, 459; Confederate general 272–73 Hewitt, ...
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752–1818), frontiersman and RevolutionaryWar military leader in the Ohio River valley. Born on a farm in Piedmont, Virginia, George Rogers Clark came to Kentucky as a surveyor.
... 192–93, 346n2 plantation mistresses, 46,63–68, 127, 144, 146–47, 330n52, 330n55 planter elite, 136–39 Elliott, Ralph, 25–26 Elliott, William, 18–19, 25, 27, 56–57, 105 Ellis, John W., 236–37, 302–3 Ellis, N. B., 220 Ellis, Powhatan, ...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History is the first reference work to eschew a narrow focus on past presidents, intellectuals, military heroes, and other exhaustively studied and well-remembered persons,...
The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and ...
The Civil War Era James M. McPherson. with cognitive skills and knowledge, also served the needs of a growing capitalist economy. Schools were “the grand agent for the development or augmentation of national resources,” wrote Horace ...
In spite of this, there is no classic treatise on civil war to compare with the classic works we have on war, revolution, or peace.
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South.
Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Masur, Louis P. The Civil War: a concise history / Louis P. Masur. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-974048-2 1.