Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0756545722
"Describes the opposing viewpoints of the North and South during the American Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nell Musolf
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756545714
"Describes the opposing viewpoints of the American Indians and settlers during the Westward Expansion"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756545706
"Describes the opposing viewpoints of the British and Patriots during the American Revolution"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899070
The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.
Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 140628632X
In 1861 the United States was at a crossroads. People in the Southern states believed that Northerners were trying to change their way of life. People in the North were upset that Southerners wanted to govern themselves. The issue of slavery was caught in the middle. As the events of the Civil War unfolded, each side fought for what they believed in.
Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
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ISBN : 0756549612
Author : United States Military Academy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1476782628
"Comprises six chapters of the West Point history of warfare that have been revised and expanded for the general reader"--Page vii.
Author : Charles B. Dew
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813939453
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1611215072
A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Author : James L. Stokesbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0062064789
The Definitive One-Volume History of the American Civil War The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the pivotal conflict of the nation’s history. It was a war defined by savage brutality, untold human costs, and monumental political crises that left the literal and social landscape of the nation forever changed. One hundred fifty years later, it continues to hold a powerful grip on the American psyche. In A Short History of the Civil War, noted historian James L. Stokesbury dramatically and concisely chronicles the important events leading up to the war and, using maps, recounts its decisive battles while describing the strategies and tactics of the North’s and South’s prominent commanders. Drawing on fascinating details and little-known facts, Stokesbury also brings to life the generals—Grant, Lee, Hooker, McClellan, Jackson—and the unsung heroes of this great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy.
