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Chronicles the history of the South from the Civil War to the present, exploring the roots of southern memory and explaining how this memory has shaped the modern South both for good and ill.
"The Civil War thrust millions of men and women--rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free--onto the roads of the South. During four years of war, Southerners lived on the move. In the hands of Yael A. Sternhell, movement becomes a radically new means to perceive …
"The Battle of New Market, though a smaller conflict, represented a crucial moment in the Union's offensive movements in the spring of 1864 and became the last major Confederate victory in the Shenandoah Valley. The results of the battle between Franz Sigel and John C. Breckinri…
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth…
"This book is a study of the diverse array of chemical weapons that were deployed, prepared for use, or proposed during the Civil War".
"This book is a study of the diverse array of chemical weapons that were deployed, prepared for use, or proposed during the Civil War"--
Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contr…
Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contr…
This work considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies leading up to and during the Civil War. It examines Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan) and Confederate groups, including the group that John Wilkes Booth was associ…
Explains how hundred of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men's uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional pi…
Explains how hundred of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men's uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.