American Civil War

Гражданская война в Америке разорвала молодую нацию надвое, столкнув брата с братом в конфликте, который навсегда изменил Соединённые Штаты. Через описание боевых стратегий, политических интриг и портретов ключевых фигур, таких как Линкольн, эти книги исследуют решения и обстоятельства, которые заставили американцев воевать друг с другом.

American Civil War Саммари книг

Tried by War

— James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

— James M. McPherson 2008 329 стр.

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Attack and Die

— Grady McWhiney • 1982

Honor culture demanded attack. Rifles made attack fatal. The Confederacy bled to death.

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⚔️ Military History 🇺🇸 American Civil War 📜 Military Doctrine 🏺 War And Culture 🎩 Southern Honor Culture

Attack and Die

Honor culture demanded attack. Rifles made attack fatal. The Confederacy bled to death.

— Grady McWhiney 1982 232 стр.

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⚔️ Military History 🇺🇸 American Civil War 📜 Military Doctrine 🏺 War And Culture 🎩 Southern Honor Culture

Blood on the Moon

— Edward Steers Jr. • 2001

Lincoln's assassination was the final act of a secret Confederate campaign of targeted killing.

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🦅 Civil War History 🔫 Political Assassination 🕸️ Conspiracy Networks ⛓️ Racial Violence ⚖️ Military Tribunals

Blood on the Moon

Lincoln's assassination was the final act of a secret Confederate campaign of targeted killing.

— Edward Steers Jr. 2001 400 стр.

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🦅 Civil War History 🔫 Political Assassination 🕸️ Conspiracy Networks ⛓️ Racial Violence ⚖️ Military Tribunals

American Brutus

— Michael W. Kauffman • 2004

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

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🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

American Brutus

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

— Michael W. Kauffman 2004 544 стр.

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🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

— Eric Foner • 1971

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

— Eric Foner 1971 400 стр.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Reconstruction

— Eric Foner • 1988

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Reconstruction

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

— Eric Foner 1988 690 стр.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

The South Was Right!

— James Ronald Kennedy • 1991

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

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🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The South Was Right!

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

— James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 стр.

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🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The March

— E.L. Doctorow • 2005

Civil War flames consume Georgia as a passing girl, a surgeon, and two deserters chase survival.

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🏚️ Civil War Fiction 🎭 Racial Passing 🤝 Found Family 💥 Total War 🏛️ Antebellum South

The March

Civil War flames consume Georgia as a passing girl, a surgeon, and two deserters chase survival.

— E.L. Doctorow 2005 363 стр.

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🏚️ Civil War Fiction 🎭 Racial Passing 🤝 Found Family 💥 Total War 🏛️ Antebellum South

West of Slavery

— Kevin Waite • 2021

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

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🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

West of Slavery

The slave South wanted a Pacific empire and nearly built one before the Civil War.

— Kevin Waite 2021 384 стр.

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🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🚂 Railroad Politics ⚔️ Civil War West

The Bloody Shirt

— Stephen Budiansky • 2008

Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.

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📜 Reconstruction Era 🎯 Racial Terrorism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 🏛️ Civil War Memory ⚪ White Backlash

The Bloody Shirt

Emancipation was overthrown by a targeted campaign of terror. The nation was too tired to stop it.

— Stephen Budiansky 2008 336 стр.

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📜 Reconstruction Era 🎯 Racial Terrorism 🗳️ Voter Suppression 🏛️ Civil War Memory ⚪ White Backlash

Witness to Gettysburg

— Richard Wheeler • 1919

Gettysburg: a general vanishes, a subordinate disobeys, and 12,500 men walk a mile into cannon fire.

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⚔️ American Civil War 🪖 Military History 📜 Primary Sources 👁️ Eyewitness History 🎯 Decisive Battles

Witness to Gettysburg

Gettysburg: a general vanishes, a subordinate disobeys, and 12,500 men walk a mile into cannon fire.

— Richard Wheeler 1919 288 стр.

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⚔️ American Civil War 🪖 Military History 📜 Primary Sources 👁️ Eyewitness History 🎯 Decisive Battles

Longstreet

— Elizabeth R. Varon • 2023

Lee's closest general backed Reconstruction and Black voting rights. The South never forgave him.

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⚔️ Civil War History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Lost Cause Mythology 🤝 Biracial Politics 🗳️ Voting Rights History

Longstreet

Lee's closest general backed Reconstruction and Black voting rights. The South never forgave him.

— Elizabeth R. Varon 2023 476 стр.

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⚔️ Civil War History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📜 Lost Cause Mythology 🤝 Biracial Politics 🗳️ Voting Rights History

The Wars of Reconstruction

— Douglas R. Egerton • 2013

Black voters were the majority in several southern states. Then the targeted assassinations began.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Power ⚰️ Racial Terrorism 🌾 Land Redistribution 📜 Historical Revisionism

The Wars of Reconstruction

Black voters were the majority in several southern states. Then the targeted assassinations began.

— Douglas R. Egerton 2013 448 стр.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Power ⚰️ Racial Terrorism 🌾 Land Redistribution 📜 Historical Revisionism

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