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History
The fourth collection of essays in this Civil War series "serves to remind us that there is much for us to discover beyond Virginia's battlefields" (H-Net Reviews). The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a... See More
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The final volume in this comprehensive history of Confederate Virginia examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion. By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication... See More
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For both Union and Confederate soldiers, religion was the greatest sustainer of morale in the Civil War, and faith was a refuge in a great time of need. Guarding and guiding the spiritual well-being of the fighters, army... See More
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"William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader... See More
History
The 3nd volume in this history of Confederate Virginia examines the effects of war on struggling families, the Hatfield-McCoy feud, and more. In the year 1863, only one major battle, The Battle of Chancellorsville, was... See More
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The second volume in this history of Confederate Virginia examines the effects of military occupation, industrial expansion, and the Battle of Antietam. In Virginia at War, 1862, leading Civil War historians demonstrate... See More
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The first volume in this comprehensive history of Virginia during the Civil War examines the early phases of secession, struggle and conflict. Several Southern states preceded Virginia in seceding from the Union, but... See More
Science & Math
Detonation, as the authors point out, differs from other forms of combustion "in that all the important energy transfer is by mass flow in strong compression waves, with negligible contributions from other processes like... See More
History
The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: "One rollicking good book." -- Jay Winik When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida -- what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida -- to Spain in 1783... See More
History
A dual biography and a fresh approach to the always compelling subject of these two iconic leadershow they fashioned a distinctly American war, and a lasting peace, that fundamentally changed our nation See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Merchants, bankers, planters, soldiers, Kaintucks and gamblers, all were tied in one way or another to that enchanting, storied, and often mysterious highway of the American Frontier: the Natchez Trace. Beginning life as a... See More
History
She went by many names -- Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more -- but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In... See More
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An "engrossing and exciting" account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review). At large during the most colorful period in New... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
On September 18, 1861, ominous sounds of battle thundering in the distance, the Kentucky legislature voted to align itself with the Union. It was a decision which tore at the heart of the state, splitting apart families and... See More
History
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the... See More
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first -- and what many believed would be the last -- major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: "The sky is perfectly clear... See More
History
"If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone, 'Died of a theory.'" As divisive a figure then as he is now, history remembers Jefferson Davis as the ill-fated President of the Confederate States of... See More
History
John C. Breckinridge rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history. Widely respected, even by his enemies, for his dedication to moderate liberalism, Breckinridge's charisma and integrity... See More
History
"For nearly a quarter of a century, Pulitzer Prize nominee William C. Davis has been one of our best writers on the Civil War... The Cause Lost extends that tradition of excellence with provocative new insights" University... See More
History
Here is the little-known, dramatic epic of heroes Sam Houston, Stephen Austin, and a host of others, who turned the Alamo into one of the most successful rallying cries in history. All Americans, not just Texans, remember... See More
History
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of... See More
Foreign Languages
I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)... My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal... I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers... So... See More
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For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another... See More
HistoryBetween March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing... See More