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The Calculus of Violence
- How Americans Fought the Civil War
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thought of as the first "total war." But Aaron Sheehan-Dean argues for another interpretation.
The Calculus of Violence demonstrates that this notoriously bloody war could have been much worse. Military forces on both sides sought to contain casualties inflicted on soldiers and civilians. In Congress, in church pews, and in letters home, Americans debated the conditions under which lethal violence was legitimate, and their arguments differentiated carefully among victims - women and men, black and white, enslaved and free. Sometimes, as Sheehan-Dean shows, these well-meaning restraints led to more carnage by implicitly justifying the killing of people who were not protected by the laws of war.
As the Civil War raged on, the Union's confrontations with guerrillas and the Confederacy's confrontations with black soldiers forced a new reckoning with traditional categories of lawful combatants and raised legal disputes that still hang over military operations around the world today.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Different Kind of History from McPherson
- De Carole T. en 08-11-16
De: James McPherson
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- De: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrado por: Ben Arogundade
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liberator of Haiti and a lamp to the world
- De Mike en 11-08-20
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Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 39 h y 40 m
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Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined. Narrator Jonathan Davis powerful reading brings to life the many voices of the Civil War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De J. Weston en 12-11-20
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This Mighty Scourge
- Perspectives on the Civil War
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Introduction to McPherson
- De Roy en 05-03-09
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- De Buretto en 10-21-21
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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The Myth of the Lost Cause
- Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
- De: Edward H. Bonekemper III
- Narrado por: C.J. McAllister
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights, or as a David v. Goliath struggle in which the North waged "total war" over an underdog South. In The Myth of the Lost Cause, historian Edward Bonekemper deconstructs this multi-faceted myth, revealing the truth about the war that nearly tore the nation apart 150 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Civil War was about Slavery. Period.
- De Reg en 02-07-17
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The Philippine-American War
- A Captivating Guide to the Philippine Insurrection That Started When the United States of America Claimed Possession of the Philippines After the Spanish-American War
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
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The Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 was a dramatic, world-changing conflict that shaped the century to come and revealed the early stirrings of America’s drive for global power. The conflict and its aftershocks continue to influence the Philippines and the wider region to this day, leaving a legacy of governance, society, and economic organization.
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1 out of 5 stars
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America is a racist country....blah blah blah....
- De jabba53e en 02-01-23
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Scars of Independence
- America's Violent Birth
- De: Holger Hoock
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand.
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1 out of 5 stars
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very biased.
- De Andy T en 07-20-17
De: Holger Hoock
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Russia in Flames
- War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
- De: Laura Engelstein
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 31 h y 11 m
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Solid overview of events
- De Anonymous User en 06-27-19
De: Laura Engelstein
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Force and Freedom
- Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
- De: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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From its origins in the 1750s, the White-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what White nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Meticulously researched history of the violence necessary to free Americans of slavery
- De E. Evans en 11-07-23
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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- De: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, unbiased view finally
- De Raffy Afarian en 10-30-15
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The Fall of the House of Dixie
- The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
- De: Bruce Levine
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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The J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois and associate editor of North and South magazine, Bruce Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Merely ok. . .
- De Steve E. en 03-19-13
De: Bruce Levine
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Nonviolence
- The History of a Dangerous Idea
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Richard Dreyfuss
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brief, necessary account of the history of nonviolence
- De Real Talk en 07-29-20
De: Mark Kurlansky
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American History, Volume 1
- 1492-1877
- De: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrado por: Craig Hinkle
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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American History, Volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history. The volume features illuminating stories of people from well known presidents and generals, to lesser-known men and women who struggled under slavery and other forms of oppression to make their place in American life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American history warts and all from a Christian perspective.
- De Charlesj en 06-13-23
De: Thomas S. Kidd
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America Aflame
- How the Civil War Created a Nation
- De: David Goldfield
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 27 h y 45 m
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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have interpreted the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great and indepth
- De Kindle Customer en 06-02-14
De: David Goldfield
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Revolutionary Summer
- The Birth of American Independence
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.
Revolutionary Summer tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Andrew en 12-18-18
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A Biography
- De: Jack Hurst
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
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In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the "Wizard of the Saddle," we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest - the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.
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The complex Forrest
- De jeffery b. howell en 01-17-18
De: Jack Hurst
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The Union War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Even 150 years later, we are haunted by the Civil War---by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary W. Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Non-revisionist
- De Chiefkent en 07-19-12
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Searching for Black Confederates
- The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
- De: Kevin M. Levin
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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modern political commentary
- De Rob Warren en 11-05-19
De: Kevin M. Levin
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After the Civil War
- The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
- De: James Robertson
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just a southern lost cause book
- De Russell Hansen en 03-24-21
De: James Robertson
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A clear, comprehensive narrative unlike any other
- De Alice Conley en 04-10-23
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Dixie's Daughters
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
- De: Karen L. Cox
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting History on the UDC
- De Chris en 05-13-21
De: Karen L. Cox
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A Biography
- De: Jack Hurst
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 16 h y 55 m
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In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the "Wizard of the Saddle," we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest - the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The complex Forrest
- De jeffery b. howell en 01-17-18
De: Jack Hurst
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The Union War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Even 150 years later, we are haunted by the Civil War---by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary W. Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Non-revisionist
- De Chiefkent en 07-19-12
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Searching for Black Confederates
- The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
- De: Kevin M. Levin
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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modern political commentary
- De Rob Warren en 11-05-19
De: Kevin M. Levin
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After the Civil War
- The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
- De: James Robertson
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just a southern lost cause book
- De Russell Hansen en 03-24-21
De: James Robertson
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Armies of Deliverance
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- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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A clear, comprehensive narrative unlike any other
- De Alice Conley en 04-10-23
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Dixie's Daughters
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
- De: Karen L. Cox
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting History on the UDC
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