Civil War America
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Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877
By Robert CookWorks depicting slaveholdersas capitalists include James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (New York, 1982) and Robert W.Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (NewYork, 1989), ...
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Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877
By Robert CookOn May 31 johnston, spotting the opportunity, launched a massive but poorly coordinated attack on the Fourth Corps of Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes. In the ensuing battle of Seven Pines, the Confederates inflicted 6,000 casualties ...
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Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History
By Zoe Trodd, Maggi M. MorehouseWritten by specialists, the chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the role of the federal government, labor, welfare and reform efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine, news coverage, ...
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Civil War America: 1850-1870
By Paul JohnsonIn these masterful essays drawn from his New York Times bestsellers A History of the American People and Heroes, one of the world's most renowned and respected historians explores what is arguably the most important chapter in the annals of ...
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Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front
By James Alan MartenRelates the stories of civilians from every strata of American life, North and South, in a comprehensive portrait of life on the home front during the Civil War, in a volume that reflects the diverse perspectives of women, free and enslaved ...
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Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front
By James Alan MartenWatermelon. War. A skirmish in an otherwise quiet sector of the Confederacy. A small squad of gunmen rise over a creek ... 1856–1865, this is not a battle between Yankees and rebels, but between a curmudgeonly farmer and Captain Phip ...
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Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History with Primary Sources
By Zoe Trodd, Maggi M. MorehouseWritten by specialists, the chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the role of the federal government, labor, welfare and reform efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine, news coverage, ...
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Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front
By James A. MartenAlthough some of the subjects are well known—Edmund Ruffin, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booker T. Washington—most of the witnesses presented in these essays are relatively unknown men, women, and children who help to broaden ...