The Lost President

Ruth Dunley

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in se... Lees meer

Household War

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between b... Lees meer

Weirding the War

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• "It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that w... Lees meer

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War ... Lees meer

War After the War

John Patrick Daly

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American C... Lees meer

Beyond Freedom

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defi... Lees meer

America's Corporal

James Marten

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the l... Lees meer

Empty Sleeves

Brian Craig Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that d... Lees meer

Empty Sleeves

Brian Craig Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that d... Lees meer

Bodies in Blue

Sarah Handley-Cousins

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them und... Lees meer

Ruin Nation

Megan Kate Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscap... Lees meer

Lens of War

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ima... Lees meer

Driven from Home

David Silkenat

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the i... Lees meer

War After the War

John Patrick Daly

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American C... Lees meer

Bodies in Blue

Sarah Handley-Cousins

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways, many of them und... Lees meer

Household War

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between b... Lees meer

Ruin Nation

Megan Kate Nelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscap... Lees meer

Beyond Freedom

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defi... Lees meer

The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory

Matthew Christopher Hulbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the gue... Lees meer

Weirding the War

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• "It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that w... Lees meer

The Families' Civil War

Holly A Pinheiro Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• This book tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discr... Lees meer

The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory

Matthew Christopher Hulbert

• Paperback | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the gue... Lees meer

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores ho... Lees meer

Visions of Glory

• Hardcover | Engels | Uncivil Wars
• Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a pa... Lees meer