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  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II | Douglas A. Blackmon
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    • By Douglas A. Blackmon
    • Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris
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    In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

    Roy says: "Will Take Your Breath Away"
  • In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War | Alice Rains Trulock
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    In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

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    • By Alice Rains Trulock
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    Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged a remarkable career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the brilliant charge that saved Little Round Top.

    Richard C. Cooper says: "Details of war"
  • The American Civil War: A Military History | John Keegan
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    The American Civil War: A Military History

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    • By John Keegan
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    For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name.

    Chris says: "Another outstanding effort"
  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust
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    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

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    During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives - equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.

    D. Littman says: "a unique civil war perspective"
  • The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War | Michael A. Halleran
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    The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War

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    • By Michael A. Halleran
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    One of the enduring yet little-examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread belief that on the field of battle and afterward, members of Masonic lodges would give aid and comfort to wounded or captured enemy Masons, often at great personal sacrifice and danger. This work is a deeply researched examination of the recorded, practical effects of Freemasonry among Civil War participants on both sides.

    Ken says: "Informative and Inspiring - Terrible Reader"
  • Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies | Alan Taylor
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    • By Alan Taylor
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor’s vivid narrative of an often brutal—sometimes farcical—war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

    margot says: "A proper history of an obscure epoch"
  • A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War | Amanda Foreman
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    Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making.

    Daniel says: "excellent narrative history"
  • The American Civil War: History in an Hour | Kat Smutz
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    History for busy people. The American Civil War was fought between the Confederates and the Union from 1861 to 1865. This is a concise history of this tumultuous period.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.

  • Law in American History : Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War | G. Edward White
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    In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G. Edward White takes up the central themes of American legal history from the earliest European settlements through the Civil War.

  • The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War | Stephen Crane
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    A young American civil war recruit overcomes initial fears and shame to become a hero on the battlefield.

  • In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals | William J. Cooper (editor),John M. McCardell (editor),James M. McPherson,Peter S. Onuf,Christa Dierksheide,Sean Wilentz,Richard Carwardine,George C. Rable,Nina Silber
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    In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals

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    • By William J. Cooper (editor), John M. McCardell (editor), James M. McPherson, and others
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    In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.

  • The American Civil War: Extracts from BBC Radio 4's 'Empire of Liberty' | David Reynolds
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    Ten episodes from David Reynolds' award-winning radio series, which trace the history of the American Civil War. This narrative tells the story of the American Civil War through the voices of those who lived it. Written and presented by acclaimed historian David Reynolds, these extracts come from the series 'America: Empire of Liberty', which won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme and was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award.

  • The American Civil War: A Military History | John Keegan
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    • By John Keegan
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    For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles.

    Mike says: "American Civil War from a British point of view"
  • American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles | Tom Kenneally
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    On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era.

  • Sick from Freedom : African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction | Jim Downs
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    Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave | Frederick Douglass
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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

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    Douglass spent his first 20 years in slavery, before escaping to the North. As a slave, he experienced both the kindness of his master's wife, who taught him to read, as well as the cruelty of sadistic overseers. This powerful story helped recruit many to the abolitionist cause.

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  • Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War | Kevin Dougherty
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    While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign - dubbed "Anaconda" - that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce, thus rendering the exploits of its field armies moot. When an independent Dixie finally met the dustbin of history, it was the North's coastal campaign, as much as the achievements of its main forces, that was primarily responsible.

  • The Mexican-American War | Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
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    The Mexican-American War

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    On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico. Although the Mexican-American War lasted only 18 months, its consequences were profound. Mexico lost nearly half of its territory to the United States: Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Some historians have described this conflict as America's first step toward empire.

  • Civil War Stories: The Best American Civil War Story Collection | Ambrose Bierce
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    Ambrose Bierce brings to life the heart rendering stories of divided loyalties, splitting families, states, countries, and individuals. He writes of the glory in beginning and savagery in the doing. Here is a moving anti-war series of stories if ever there was one. A must read by all students of American History and Literature, though perhaps best understood by older adults.

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  • Views from the Dark Side of American History (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) | Michael Fellman
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    Throughout his career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Best known for his work on the American Civil War and for an interdisciplinary methodology that utilizes social psychology, cultural anthropology, and comparative history, Fellman has delved into issues of domination, exploitation, political violence, racism, terrorism, and the experiences of war. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, this collection reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career.

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