The drama of the Civil War is captured in this balanced history of the deadly conflict between the Southern and Northern states.
1917 Pulitzer Prize-winner is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding studies -- and first unbiased history -- of the Civil War. ..."very attractive volume." -- "American Historical Review."...
This book remains one of the best histories on the topic of American Civil War to this day. The author, James Ford Rhodes, was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for History for his work.
Gathers original sources, including newspaper editorials, speeches, and documents, and shares comments by historians on the period
Inevitably, we grasp the war through such hyperbole. In so doing, we tend to blur the fact that real people lived through it and were changed by the event. One hundred eighty-five thousand black Americans fought to free their people.
An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 is Adam Goodheart's account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on...
Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the ...
The book then proceeds to cover, year by year, the major political, social, and military events, highlighting two important themes: how the war shifted from a limited conflict to restore the Union to an all-out war that would fundamentally ...
The resources of the Firestone Library at Princeton University and of the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, provided most of the research material on which this book is based. A year at the Center for Advanced Study ...
The war marked a defining point in American history, and its effects are still felt today. The Outbreak of the Civil War examines the factors that led the nation to war.
Noted historian Steven E. Woodworth tells the story of what many regard as the defining event in United States history.