Encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history.
Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen's The American Civil War is the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter.
This volume breaks new ground by charting a hemispheric upheaval and expanding Civil War scholarship into the realms of transnational and imperial history.
The book then proceeds to cover, year by year, the major political, social, and military events, highlighting two important themes: how the war shifted from a limited conflict to restore the Union to an all-out war that would fundamentally ...
Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the ...
The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, The American Civil War has inspired some of the best and most intriguing scholarship...
22. since the work of S. L. A. Marshall on nonfirers in World War II. See Grossman's response to these debates on p. 333. See also S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War (New York: Morrow, ...
... 16; George H. Miles, ''God Save the South,'' in ibid., 12; Wilson, Patriotic Gore, 59. 51. ''Song Writing,'' Southern Punch, March 19, 1864, 7. Brander Matthews, Pen and Ink, 172–73. 52. Holmes, ''Poetry of the War.
LINCOLN , MARY TODD War ( 1995 ) ; and Wilkes Booth Came to Washington by Larry Starkey ( 1976 ) . According to this theory , Lincoln was considered a war target and fair game for assassination . Papers found on the body of Ulric ...
“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton.
Presents a timeline of the Civil War, including causes of the conflict, the life of soldiers on both sides, and the end of the war.