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Shades Of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, And Local Communities In The Civil War Era
Get PDFIrish Unionism Author Ryan Keating, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino has made a significant contribution to the study of Irish soldiers in the Civil War. Shades of Green does not look at units like the 69th New York or the Irish Brigades of Boston...
Six Days In September: A Novel Of Lee\u27s Army In Maryland, 1862
Get PDFA Different View from South Mountain Author Alexander B. Rossino, Ph.D. is not only an award-winning historian usually working in the area of WWII, but also a lifelong Civil War buff. He currently lives in western Maryland at the foot of South Mountain, and that geographic area has worked its magic...
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
Get PDFDaren Wang is not the first author to write a Civil War novel, but he is one of the few to get a review in these august pages. Hidden Light is his first novel, but Wang has written for The Atlantic Journal-Constitution, Paste, and Five Points magazine. Additionally, he is the founding executive director of the Decatur Book Festival. Such an active mind was imprinted with an interest in history at an early age when he and his family actually moved to Town Line, New York
A Fool\u27s Errand. By One of the Fools: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction
Get PDFAs one reads modern books analyzing Reconstruction by historians such as Alan Guelzo, Eric Foner, and Brooks Simpson, the name of one other author often pops up: Albion Tourgée. His novel, A Fool\u27s Errand, is mentioned as having a unique point of view due to having been published in 1879, during actual Reconstruction. Albion Tourgée has some pretty impeccable credentials to back up his effort, although the book was initially published anonymously. Nevertheless, it was an immediate hit nationwide, selling over 200,000 copies
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity
Get PDFAuthor Ian Finseth, in The Civil War Dead and American Modernity, has mined the graveyards, remains, and memento mori of the Civil War to offer a reinterpretation of their cultural importance to the evolution of American modernization. His thesis is that the Civil War dead became one of the most powerful symbols of the relationship of the present to the past. Finseth is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of North Texas, and this book is one of the volumes in the Oxford Studies in American Literary History
The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media from the Founding Fathers to Fake News
Get PDFHarold Holzer\u27s newest offering, The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media from the Founding Fathers to Fake News, is a profoundly timely work. Proclaimed the dean of Lincoln historians, it is interesting to learn that author Harold Holzer was not, in fact, born a Lincoln historian. He began his post-college life as a reporter for a weekly newspaper, the Manhattan Tribune. After what turned out to be a brief foray into print journalism, Holzer became a political press secretary for Bella Abzug, and then for Mario Cuomo\u27s mayoral election in 1977. Given the information in this book, it should be noted that only Harold Holzer could have offered his readers the perspective of The Presidents vs. the Press
Civil War Obscura: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo
Get PDFAuthor and historian/folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who died in obscurity in 1960, is back on the bookshelves in a significant way. Her first book, Barracoon, has finally been published. She completed the work in 1931 but could never interest publishers in the true saga of Cudjo Lewis, thought to be the last living person enslaved in Africa and transported to the United States by the slave ship Clotilda. Part of the reason the book encountered obstacles was the inclusion of dialect in Hurston\u27s interviews with Kossula, Lewis\u27s African name. Another part was the topic itself. Not only is the slave trade discussed in great detail, but the responsibility of initial captures of Africans by the Dahomey is clearly outlined: black Africans captured and sold other black Africans to European slave traders for profit
Civil War Obscura: Lincoln On The Eve Of \u2761
Get PDFA Journalist\u27s View of Lincoln For those of us who enjoy searching for, and reading, out-of-print books about the Civil War era, look no further. This column, Civil War Obscura, focuses on popular, but lesser known books of the period. No printed text is off limits; fiction, non-fiction, personal ...
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist
Get PDFIf you were planning a party in the 1850s, I would suggest you leave Mr. Henry S. Foote off the guest list—unless, of course, you want one of those parties that people talk about for years. Literally years. Foote is one of the strangest fire-eaters in the South. He was born in Virginia but made his mark as a Unionist politician in Mississippi, Texas, California, and Tennessee. Whether he was welcomed in any of these places or was eventually asked to leave, this is the story of this unusual man
Unpublished Sources: What is in the Attic, Anyway?
Get PDFFeature Essayist Meg Groeling provides an explanation of unpublished sources by using ancestral documents, which reveal more than they may on the surface
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