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History, Am.: Civil War



link to catalog page COZZENS, General John Pope

General John Pope

A Life for the Nation

Author: Peter Cozzens
Pub Date: Cloth: 2000; Paper: 2005

A humane and balanced portrait of the much maligned man who played a crucial role in the Civil War   learn more...

link to catalog page HOLZER, The Lincoln Image

The Lincoln Image

Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print

Author: Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E . Neely Jr.
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2005

How printmakers chronicled and influenced Lincoln's transfiguration into an American icon   learn more...

link to catalog page LAUSE, Young America

Young America

Land, Labor, and the Republican Community

Author: Mark A. Lause
Pub Date: 2005

How working people's republican "free labor" ethos changed the national agenda at a crucial period in U.S. history   learn more...

link to catalog page RATNER, Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

Author: Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
Pub Date: September 2004

Tracing the role of America’s newspapers in the country’s descent into civil war   learn more...

link to catalog page HAZLETT, Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War, revised edition Author: James C. Hazlett, Edwin Olmstead, and M. Hume Parks
Pub Date: 2004

Detailed survey, with photographs and diagrams, of the field artillery used by both sides in the Civil War   learn more...

link to catalog page TAYLOR, The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890 Author: George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu
Pub Date: 2003

The emergence of railroads during the Civil War, their expansion westward, the adoption of uniform rail gauges, and the first key consolidations in the industry.   learn more...

link to catalog page FRANK,

"Seeing the Elephant"

Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh

Author: Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves
Pub Date: 2003

Study of the impact of one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War on the soldiers who fought in it.   learn more...

link to catalog page KECKLEY, Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Pub Date: 2002

A slave, friend and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a proprietor with more than twenty employees of her own tells her tale   learn more...

link to catalog page JONES, The Art of War in the Western World Author: Archer Jones
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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link to catalog page FREEMON, Gangrene and Glory

Gangrene and Glory

Medical Care during the American Civil War

Author: Frank R. Freemon
Pub Date: 2001

An unusually powerful medical history and photodocumentary of the field hospitals, injuries, primitive treatments, and the dedicated medical personnel who fought the war against death behind both sides in the Civil War   learn more...

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