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Highlights the diverse ways in which beliefs about the end times influenced nineteenth-century American lives, including reform culture, the search for meaning amid the trials of war, and the social transformation wrought by emancipation.

Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.

Presents an innovative and provocative study of the most notorious campaigns of the Civil War - Sherman's devastating 1864 "March to the Sea" and the 1865 Carolinas Campaign. The book follows the 154th New York regiment through three states and chronicles 150 years, from the start of the campaigns to their impact today.

Explores a tragic part of America's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.

Chronicles the evolution of Granbury's Texas Brigade, perhaps the most distinguished combat unit in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Named for its commanding officer, Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury, the brigade fought tenaciously in the western theatre even after Confederate defeat seemed certain.

Offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South.

Examines morale in the Civil War's western theatre, the region that witnessed the most consistent Union success and Confederate failure, and the battleground where many historians contend that the war was won and lost. The western focus provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of Confederates who routinely witnessed the defeat.

Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, Views from the Dark Side of American History reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career and illuminates his approach to history.

Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.

The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation - it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that matched Union ingenuity. This book brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy's industrious inventors and its active patent office.

The first biography of William Pitt Fessenden in over forty years, Civil War Senator reveals a significant but often sidelined historical figure and explains the central role played by party politics and partisanship in the coming of the Civil War, northern military victory, and the ultimate failure of postwar Reconstruction.

During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In this volume, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum slave community than most scholars currently assert.

Reveals the difficulties that President Abraham Lincoln, military officials, and state authorities faced in trying to curb traitorous activity while upholding the spirit of the United States Constitution. Dennis Boman explains that despite Lincoln's desire to disentangle himself from Missouri policy matters, he was never able to do so.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to pro-union, and racially enlightened. A deft blend of biography, history, and literary studies, this book offers a bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers.

Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic.

For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. Azeline ultimately inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In this volume, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story.

On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near Dallas. In this book, Donald Reynolds offers a deft analysis of these events and illuminates the ways in which fictionalised conspiracy determined the course of southern secession immediately before the Civil War.

In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. This volume honours his contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life.

With Blood Image, Paul Anderson shows that the symbol of a man can be just as important as the man himself. The stylistic synergy of Anderson's startling narrative design fuels a poignant irony: men like Turner Ashby became trapped by the desire to have their real lives reflect their imagined ones.

Chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre.

This multilayered treatment reveals that the Emancipation Proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act - brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it.

These essays ponder the role of history, myth, and media in sustaining the memory of the American Civil War and its racial implications in the South; Abraham Lincoln's legacy; and the war's consequences in less studied areas, such as civil-military relations, constitutional and legal history, and America's ascent on the international stage.

Examines how, due to the fear of insurrection by the enslaved, southerners created their own version of American exceptionalism, one that placed the perpetuation of slavery at its forefront.

Many historians have told the story of the fall of Vicksburg, but Bradley Clampitt is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of life there after its capture. Clampitt shows that following the Confederate withdrawal, Federal forces confronted myriad challenges, including filth, disease, and a never-ending stream of black and white refugees.

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental historians, suggests instead that it was a war between the North and South and the weather.

Examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Considering Buchanan and Stevens's divergent lives alongside their political and social worlds reveals the dynamics and directions of American politics.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, federal officials imprisoned and indicted Jefferson Davis for treason. Although the federal government pursued the charges, the case never went to trial. This book argues that while national politics played a role in the trial's direction, the actions of lesser-known individuals resulted in the failure to convict.

A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion.

In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. This volume honours his contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life.

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as this study shows, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story.