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Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : 9781438107974
Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.
Author : Fon Wyman Boardman
Publisher : Henry Z. Walck, Incorporated
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : United States
ISBN : 0809850117
An overview of all aspects of life in the United States before, during, and after the Civil War.
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615307111
While the United States represents freedom to many, much of its history tragically includes the enslavement of a large portion of its population. When the fight for emancipation came to an epic head, civil war ensued and the country was divided as never before. Inflamed passions on both sides of the slavery debate inspired fervent rhetoric, much of which is reflected in the primary source documents interspersed with the text in this thought-provoking volume, which chronicles the events of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed.
Author : Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871941
The American Civil War (1861-65) was the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century and its impact continues to be felt today. It, and its origins have been studied more intensively than any other period in American history, yet it remains profoundly controversial. Brian Holden Reid's formidable volume is a major contribution to this ongoing historical debate. Based on a wealth of primary research, it examines every aspect of the origins of the conflict and addresses key questions such as was it an avoidable tragedy, or a necessary catharsis for a divided nation? How far was slavery the central issue? Why should the conflict have errupted into violence and why did it not escalate into world war?
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062076250
In these masterful essays drawn from his New York Times bestsellers A History of the American People and Heroes, one of the world's most renowned and respected historians explores what is arguably the most important chapter in the annals of America: the Civil War. Enlivened with the author's trademark scholarship, verve, and intelligence, this vivid, concise history revisits the conflict that tore a nation asunder and provides portraits of the people who played essential roles in the bloody drama. Johnson's Civil War America examines the factors that led to the devastating rift in the years before the fighting—and recounts the troubled healing a wounded nation underwent in the years after the final shot was fired.
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199911653
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author : John C. Waller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313380457
This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice. Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America covers a period of dramatic change in the United States by examining our changing understanding of the nature of the disease burden, the increasing size of the nation, and our conceptions of sickness and health. With topics ranging from the unsanitary tenements of New York's Five Points, the field hospitals of the Civil War, and to the laboratories of Johns Hopkins Medical School, author John C. Waller reveals a complex picture of tradition, discovery, innovation, and occasional spectacular success. This book draws upon an extensive literature to document sickness and wellness in environments like rural homesteads, urban East-coast slums, and the hastily built cities of the West. It provides a fascinating historical examination of a century in which Americans made giant strides in understanding disease yet also clung to traditional methods and ideas, charting how U.S. medical science gradually transformed from being a backwater to a world leader in the field.
Author : Charles Sumner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Kansas
ISBN : IND:30000119593402
Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.
Author : Jay Winik
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062029201
One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation. In the end, April 1865 emerged as not just the tale of the war's denouement, but the story of the making of our nation. Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history and filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1082858501
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." ― Frederick Douglass - An American Classic! - Includes Images of Frederick Douglass and His Life
Author : Jeffery J. Rogers
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781643360904
A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South. Nineteenth-century writer William Gilmore Simms was once considered the South’s premier literary figure, with achievements including more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and biographies of important figures in American history. Less well known are his newspaper writings, which include fascinating and trenchant work from the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Writing War and Reunion offers a selection of the best of Simms’s articles and editorials from that period, offering a window into his thoughts on the conflict and its deeply fraught resolution. In the decades following the Civil War, Simms’s reputation suffered a steady decline. Because of his associations with the antebellum South, slavery, and Confederate defeat, as well as changes in literary tastes, Simms came to be regarded as a talented but failed Southern author of a bygone era. Today a robust scholarly literature has reexamined Simms and finds him to have been an important figure in the development of nineteenth-century American literature and worthy of serious study.
Author : David Michael Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583679906
An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism" Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States. In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
Author : Arthur H. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476627267
As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants joined the fray in large numbers, on both sides. They sometimes were disruptive elements. In Mexico, a body of Irish artillerymen defected to the other side. During the Civil War, Patrick Cleburne stirred controversy in the Confederacy when he proposed enlisting slaves in exchange for their freedom. The New York draft riots, a violent insurrection by a predominantly Irish mob, raged for three days before Federal troops restored order. Despite turmoil and contention, the Irish soldiers who fought in the Union army contributed significantly to the preservation of the United States. This collection of essays examines the involvement of Irish men and women in America's conflicts from 1840 to 1865.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : 0873051084
Author : Eric H. Walther
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0842027998
The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. The Shattering of the Union is a concise, readable analysis and survey of the major ideas and events that resulted in the Civil War. The first scholarly synthesis of America's final antebellum decade to be published in more than twenty years, this essential overview incorporates methods and findings by recognized historians on politics, society, race relations, ideology, and slavery. This book is a fascinating look at one of the pivotal decades in U.S. history.