Living only eighty years after the signing of the declaration of Independence, Civil War soldiers felt the legacy and responsibility entrusted to them by the Founding Fathers to preserve fragile democracy--be it through secession or union--as something worth dying for. In an exceptional and highly original civil war analysis, McPherson draws on the letters and diaries of nearly one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers, giving voice to the very men who risked their lives in the conflict.
In battle cry of freedom, James M. With what they fought for, he focuses his considerable talents on what motivated the individual soldier to fight. In their letters home and their diaries--neither of which were subject to censorship--these men were able to comment, in writing, on a wide variety of issues connected with their war experience.
Anchor Books. In what they fought for, mcpherson takes individual voices and places them in the great and terrible choir of a country divided against itself. Their insights show how deeply felt and strongly held their convictions were and reveal far more careful thought on the ideological issues of the war than has previously been thought to be true.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
. Vintage Books USA. In this landmark work of history, washington, the national book award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Burr, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation.
The united states was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790 .
The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions
The book recreates the tumultuous events of the 1760s and 1770s that led to revolution, such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the role the Sons of Liberty played in turning resistance into full-scale revolt. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field.
Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library.
Every very short introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. He considers as well the revolution's legacy, Latin America, the many ways its essential ideals influenced other struggles against oppressive power or colonial systems in France, and Asia.
In this lively account, robert allison provides a cohesive synthesis of the military, political, diplomatic, and intellectual aspects of the Revolution, social, paying special attention to the Revolution's causes and consequences.
The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Library of American Biography
Edmund morgan relates the hardships and triumphs of the Puritan movement through this vivid account of its most influential leader, John Winthrop. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. Oxford university Press USA. The titles in the library of american Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored.
Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretive biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life.
Give Me Liberty!: An American History Seagull Fifth Edition Vol. 1
S. History survey course because it works in the classroom. The leading text in the U. S. A single-author text by a leader in the field, concise, accessible, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, and integrated American history. The best-selling Seagull Edition is also available in full color for the first time.
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Gifted, presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left. A classic now newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document “The Confessions of Nat Turner, ” here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America's history.
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Of the People: A History of the United States, Volume 1: To 1877
Vintage Books USA. Oxford university Press USA. Of the people: a history of the united states, third edition, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges.
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
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Radical Reconstruction: A Brief History with Documents Bedford Series in History and Culture
Vintage Books USA. The reconstruction period following the civil war was a transformative moment in which political leaders addressed questions concerning the place of the southern states in the postwar nation, the status of formerly enslaved African Americans, and the powers and limitations of the federal government.
The introduction introduces the Radical Republicans and details how Reconstruction grew from a complex negotiation among groups with often conflicting agendas. The documents, letters, legislation, arranged in thematic and roughly chronological chapters, allow students to sift through the evolution of Radical Reconstruction and its aftermath through speeches, press coverage, and contemporary illustrations.
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American History: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions
Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. And along the way, he touches upon the cultural milestones of American history, from Tom Paine's The Crisis to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. American history: a very short introduction is a panoramic history of the United States, one that covers virtually every topic of importance--and yet can be read in a single day.
Certain broad trends shape much of the narrative--immigration, urbanization, slavery, continental expansion, the global projection of U. S. Here is a masterful picture of America's achievements and failures, large-scale socio-historical forces, and pivotal events. Power, the centrality of religion, the progression from an agrarian to an industrial to a post-industrial economic order.
Oxford university Press, USA. Yet in underscoring such large themes, boyer also highlights the diversity of the American experience, gender, the importance of individual actors, and the crucial role of race, ethnicity, and social class in shaping the contours of specific groups within the nation's larger tapestry.
Boyer sheds light on the colonial era, the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the roaring twenties and the Great Depression; the two world wars and the Cold War that followed; right up to the tragedy of 9/11, the Revolution and the birth of the new nation; slavery and the Civil War; Reconstruction and the Gilded Age; the Progressive era, and the epoch-making election of Barack Obama.
The Civil War: A Concise History
Oxford university Press, USA. Masur begins by examining the complex origins of the war, focusing on the pulsating tensions over states rights and slavery. Louis P. Oxford university Press USA. Vintage Books USA. The book then proceeds to cover, year by year, and military events, social, highlighting two important themes: how the war shifted from a limited conflict to restore the Union to an all-out war that would fundamentally transform Southern society, the major political, and the process by which the war ultimately became a battle to abolish slavery.
In 1873, mark twain and charles dudley wrote that the war had "wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations. From the vantage of the war's sesquicentennial, this concise history of the entire Civil War era offers an invaluable introduction to the dramatic events whose effects are still felt today.
Masur's the civil war: a concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. But he also focuses on the soldiers themselves, both Union and Confederate, whose stories constitute nothing less than America's Iliad.
