by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World Slaves Made. New York: Random House, 1972. Southern historian Eugene D. Genovese explores antebellum slavery in the South in this ambitious work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made....
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. The years prior to the American Civil War have been debated by historians for decades. It...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Liddell Hart, B. H. Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. Boston: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart’s brilliant biography, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, skillfully portrays General William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman is considered a military...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Stampp. Kenneth. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South. New York: Knopf, 1956. Kenneth M. Stampp, in his book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956), contradicted several arguments by historians who...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. Thomas L. Connelly in The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society explores the image of Lee...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Watkins, Sam R. Co. Aytch: A Civil War Narrative. Touchstone; Reprint edition, 2008. Co. Aytch: A Civil War Narrative is an account of the American Civil War told by a common soldier, Sam R. Watkins. Watkins was a private in Company H,...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Varon, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. The title of Elizabeth R. Varon’s book Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Sword, Wiley. Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. Wiley Sword recounts with great detail the last great push by the rebel Confederates in The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Freehling, William W. The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped The Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. William W. Freehling, in The South VS. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Even if the American Revolution is not a specific area of study, but you are a student, a history buff, or historian,...
