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Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era

Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era

National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era

Charles Wellington Reed is therefore an ideal subject in a discussion of Civil War music, for all of his attributes, both ordinary and extraordinary, make him the perfect witness and commentator on the influence music had on the average Civil  ...
Music of the World War II Era

Music of the World War II Era

William H. Young

Recent Titles in American History through Music Music of the Counterculture Era James E. Perone Music of the Civil War Era Steven H. Cornelius Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era John Ogasapian Music of the Great Depression ...
Music of the First World War

Music of the First World War

Don Tyler

Recent Titles in American History through Music Music of the Counterculture Era James E. Perone Music of the Civil War Era Steven H. Cornelius Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era John Ogasapian Music of the Great Depression ...
Music of the 1990s

Music of the 1990s

Thomas Harrison

Recent Titles in American History through Music Music of the Counterculture Era James E. Perone Music of the Civil War Era Steven H. Cornelius Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era John Ogasapian Music of the Great Depression ...
Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and ...

Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and ...

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The volume's ten essays coalesce around the national significance of Massachusetts through the Civil War era, the ways in which the commonwealth reflected and even modeled the Union's precarious but real wartime unification, and the Bay ...
Children and Youth During the Civil War Era

Children and Youth During the Civil War Era

James Marten

Prominent historians and rising scholars explore issues important to both the Civil War era and to the history of children and youth, including the experience of orphans, drummer boys, and young soldiers on the front lines, and even the ...
Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States

Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States

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Governing Confederate, Mexican, and Indian Texas in the Civil War Era Gregory P. Downs In the spring of 1865, the Civil War seemed at last to grind to an end in Texas. Weeks earlier Confederates had surrendered at Appomattox Court ...
Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2013 Issue -- ...

Journal of the Civil War Era: Winter 2013 Issue -- ...

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Carole Emberton has won the annual George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2012. Two members of the editorial board selected her article, “'Only Murder Makes Men': Reconsidering ...
Focus On U.s. History: The Era Of The Civil War And ...

Focus On U.s. History: The Era Of The Civil War And ...

Kathy Sammis

Reproducible student activities cover the Civil War and the rebuilding of the postwar South.
National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National ...

National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National ...

A. Wilson Greene

Thirty-seven newly commissioned, easy-to-read maps lead readers to each Civil War battle site and are accompanied by discussions of what occurred during each confrontation. 10,000 first printing.
A Late Encounter with the Civil War

A Late Encounter with the Civil War

Michael Kreyling

These essays explore the conscious and unconscious mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War.
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the ...

The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the ...

Earl J. Hess

The liTTlefield hisTory of The Civil War era the LittLefieLd hiStory of the CiviL War era Gary W. Gallagher and T. Michael Parrish, editors Gary W. Gallagher and T. Michael Parrish, editors supporTed by The liTTlefield fund for souThern hisTory, ...
Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

Roger Hickman

Organized chronologically by era, the text examines film history in relation to trends in other artistic mediums, such as the development of rock and roll, and in the context of world and national events such as the Cold War, space ...
Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront

Civil War Sketch Book: Drawings from the Battlefront

Harry L. Katz

Collects the drawings of the Civil War's "special artists" who were tasked with documenting images of the war's soldiers, battles, and camps for the era's newspapers.
"Liberty's Great Auxiliary": Music and the American Civil War

"Liberty's Great Auxiliary": Music and the American Civil War

Christian McWhirter

Music was almost omnipresent during the American Civil War.
From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of ...

From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of ...

James Longstreet

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.
Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2012 Issue

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2012 Issue

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He did not practice medicine again. Steven M. Stowe notes 1. James Henry Gooding, On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, ed. Virginia M. Adams (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991); and ...
Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue

Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue

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—David Blight, Yale University 304 pages $34.95 NATURE'S CIVIL WAR Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia Kathryn Shively Meier “A powerful and imaginative argument about the practical strategies of soldier agency ...
University of Minnesota 2012

University of Minnesota 2012

Alison Henderson

Multi-Cultural Association for Student Advancement Music Educators National Conference, University of Minnesota Collegiate Chapter Music Therapy Students, University of Minnesota Chapter of the National Association National Society of ...
This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath

This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath

Michael Fellman

The title explores both the years leading up to the Civil War, and the war's aftermath in the North and the South. The discussion extends to 1896, reframing the period of the Civil War. NOTE: This is the standalone book.
The Brothers' war: Civil War letters to their loved ones ...

The Brothers' war: Civil War letters to their loved ones ...

Annette Tapert

Written in an era without military censorship, these ninety letters cover the war from its beginning through the assassination of Lincoln
Marching Across the Color Line: A. Philip Randolph and Civil ...

Marching Across the Color Line: A. Philip Randolph and Civil ...

David Welky

In Marching Across the Color Line: A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights in the World War II Era, author David Welky examines Randolph's central role in the African American struggle for equality during the World War II era.
Civil War

Civil War

Martin W. Sandler

From the archives of the Library of Congress, often called "the Storehouse of the national memory," here are over one hundred vintage posters, paintings, and photographs that bring the events of the Civil War vividly to life.
A History of American Civil War Literature

A History of American Civil War Literature

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Christopher Hanlon Beyond the national polity it fractured, beyond the romance of continental manifest destiny it unsettled, the U.S. Civil War perturbed North Atlantic spheres of belonging that had oriented a larger midcentury, romantically  ...
Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2014 Issue

Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2014 Issue

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The Civil War and American Art. By Eleanor Jones Harvey. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Pp. 352. Cloth, $65.00.) Readers of the Journal of  ...
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The ...

With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The ...

Carol Reardon

The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North Carol Reardon. THE STEVEN & JANICE BROSE LECTURES IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA WILLIAM A. BLAIR, EDITOR © 2012 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved ...
Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880

Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880

John Solomon Otto

This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the transition from slavery to free labor after the war, ...
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and ...

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and ...

Allen C. Guelzo

In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, ...

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