Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction--originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald--is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.
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.
{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.
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.
These carefully crafted essays by leading scholars such as Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Clarissa Confer, Richard B. McCaslin, Linda W. Reese, and F. Todd Smith will help teachers and students better understand the Civil War, Native American ...
Ethnicities are found in Eric Anderson, Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872–1901 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981); “The Colored Members of the Legislature,” Raleigh Daily Era, December 4, 1872 (reprinted in ...
Conservatives are defined as the members of Groups 0–2 of Michael Les Benedict's classification of Representatives in the Thirty-ninth Congress, First Session; moderates are Groups 3–4; and radicals Groups 5–6. See Benedict, Compromise ...
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).
This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.
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...