John Wesley Hardin, the most famous and violent gunfighter ever to ride across the sweeping Texas landscape, comes to life again in this gripping true story that spans over forty years in the tumultuous history of nineteenth century Texas.
In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, nine historians describe and analyze the Lost Cause, identifying ways in which it falsifies history—creating a volume that makes a significant contribution to Civil War historiography. ...
This book recounts the Civil War as a battle between "two nations of opposite civilizations" and that slavery enriched the South.
Stoeckl, Edouard de, 92 Streight, Abel D., 212 Strozier, Charles, 247 Stuart, J. E. B. (Jeb), 112, 124, 139, 144, 148, 154, 160–162, 163, 165, 166, 171, 187, 191, 192, 264 Swinton, William, 195 Sydnor, Charles, 23, 24 ...
Taking as its thematic starting point the Confederacy's defeat in 1865, the book builds on the idea that memories are produced out of historical experience by showing how their recall by individuals and groups plays an important role in the ...
Science fiction meets murder mystery in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. The Lost Causes are five teens with serious problems and only one thing in common: people have written them off.
Although the ghosts of the Confederacy still haunted the New South, Foster concludes that they did little to shape behavior in it--white southerners, in celebrating the war, ultimately trivialized its memory, reduced its cultural power, and ...
Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question—until he hears his grandfather's will.
Now, the man who led the transformation, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez, offers the untold story of how, at enormous personal risk, he refused to accept Colombia’s perilous status quo.
The Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865-1900
Author Brian Burns traces the history of the River City as it marched toward a new century.