Portrays the American Civil War and its aftermath through such primary sources as memoirs, diaries, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
Wellman, Manley Wade. Giant In Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of ... POWELL CLAYTON (1833–1914) Boatner, Mark M., III. ... HARRISON REED (1813–1899) Brown, Canter, Jr. Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor.
But Lee was the subject of "Prospects of the Southern Sambo," one of the most brutal cartoons published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Neiospaper. It shows a slave tied to a post and being beaten by a white man, to which Lee responds, ...
William L. Richter ... Beauregard received instructions on April 10, 1861, to demand Anderson's surrender or reduce the fort by fire. Anderson said he was fast running out of supplies and would have to yield by noon on April 15.
This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods....
{752} T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, 301. {753} K. P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, V, 277. {754} Lincoln, Collected Works, VII, 239. {755} Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, 302-303. {756} E. Channing, Hist, ...
Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.
The First Southern Strategy (1986); Erwin S. Bradley, The Triumph of Militant Repuhlicanisin (1964); Richard 0. Curry, Radicat'isnt, Racism, and Party Realignment: The Border States During Raconstruction (1969); David Herbert Donald, ...
Designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, this best-selling title covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.
David Herbert Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), sheds new light on an important figure. ... Whig (1966); Hans L. Trefousse, Ben Butler (1957), and Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio (1963).
The Civil War is the central event in the American historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 preserved this creation from...