General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
Title | General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley J. Gordon |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2002-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807854273 |
A critical biography of the best known and least accurately understood Civil War general, including the legends perpetrated by his widow, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
Title | Creating a Confederate Kentucky PDF eBook |
Author | Anne E. Marshall |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807899364 |
In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with former Confederate states. Marshall looks beyond postwar political and economic factors to the longer-term commemorations of the Civil War by which Kentuckians fixed the state's remembrance of the conflict for the following sixty years.
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
Title | Pickett's Charge in History and Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Reardon |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807873543 |
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then, is it Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--and not, for example, Richardson's Charge at Antietam or Humphreys's Assault at Fredericksburg--that looms so large in the popular imagination? As this innovative study reveals, by examining the events of 3 July 1863 through the selective and evocative lens of 'memory' we can learn much about why Pickett's Charge endures so strongly in the American imagination. Over the years, soldiers, journalists, veterans, politicians, orators, artists, poets, and educators, Northerners and Southerners alike, shaped, revised, and even sacrificed the 'history' of the charge to create 'memories' that met ever-shifting needs and deeply felt values. Reardon shows that the story told today of Pickett's Charge is really an amalgam of history and memory. The evolution of that mix, she concludes, tells us much about how we come to understand our nation's past.
The Pig War
Title | The Pig War PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Vouri |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738558400 |
Historian Mike Vouri has selected nearly 200 historical images to illustrate the history of the Pig War on San Juan Island in Washington state. Each image has a descriptive caption.
Clouds of Glory
Title | Clouds of Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Korda |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 998 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0062116312 |
New York Times Bestseller "Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston Globe Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generation Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause. Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.
Intimate Strategies of the Civil War
Title | Intimate Strategies of the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Carol K. Bleser |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2001-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195115090 |
Illuminating a frequently neglected but extremely significant side of military history, "Intimate Strategies" is a rare and fascinating look at a critical aspect of Civil War commanders' lives--their marriages.
Clint
Title | Clint PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick McGilligan |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 2002-08-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312290320 |
A biography of a Hollywood legend peels back the mystery surrounding Clint Eastwood to reveal a rebel with a clear vision of human existence.