A Nation Divided

Michael Frost Beckner

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided | nr. 1
• America is under attack from within. A nation divided on every issue. Across the land, political, social, and racial intolerance increasingly turns to... Lees meer

The Big House After Slavery

Amy Feely Morsman

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat ... Lees meer

Longstreet's Aide

Thomas W. Cutrer

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• One of the Confederacy's most loyal adherents and articulate advocates was Lieutenant Grant James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Pres... Lees meer

A Nation Divided

Michael Frost Beckner

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided | nr. 3
• America is under attack from within. A nation divided on every issue. Across the land, political, social, and racial intolerance increasingly turns to... Lees meer

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies

James Hill Welborn

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of ... Lees meer

Confederate Visions

Ian Binnington

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. I... Lees meer

Lincoln's Dilemma

Paul D Escott

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confr... Lees meer

Civil War Political Tradition

Paul D Escott

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Es... Lees meer

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies

James Hill Welborn

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of ... Lees meer

The Cacophony of Politics

J Matthew Gallman

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comprehensive ... Lees meer

Slavery and War in the Americas

Vitor Izecksohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign i... Lees meer

The Enemy Within

Michael Thomas Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Stoked by a series of major scandals, popular fears of corruption in the Civil War North provide a unique window into Northern culture in the Civil Wa... Lees meer

A Separate Civil War

Jonathan Dean Sarris

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian c... Lees meer

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia

Ervin L Jordan

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were ac... Lees meer

American Abolitionism

Stanley Harrold

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial... Lees meer

Civil War Petersburg

A Wilson Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Few wartime cities in Virginia held more importance than Petersburg. Nonetheless, the city has, until now, lacked an adequate military history, let al... Lees meer

Reconstruction Beyond 150

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction... Lees meer

The Civil War Political Tradition

Paul D Escott

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It , the renowned historian Paul E... Lees meer

Marching Masters

Colin Edward Woodward

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they unde... Lees meer

Lee's Young Artillerist

Peter S Carmichael

• Paperback | Engels | Nation Divided
• William R. J. Pegram forged a record as one of the most prominent artillerists in the Army of Northern Virginia. He participated in every major battle... Lees meer

A Strife of Tongues

Stephen E Maizlish

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things."... Lees meer

Intimate Reconstructions

Catherine A Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia's Reconstruction. Jones argues that questions... Lees meer

Preserving the White Man's Republic

Joshua A Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individuali... Lees meer

Daydreams and Nightmares

Brent Tarter

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one ... Lees meer