Making Sense of the Civil War
America’s War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries
America’s War is an anthology of Civil War writing originally published between 1852 and 2008. The selections in America’s War include works of historical fiction and interpretation, speeches, diaries, memoirs, biographies, and short stories. Together, these readings provide a glimpse of the vast sweep and profound breadth of Americans’ war among and against themselves, adding […]
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
Noted Civil War historian McPherson tells the story of the bloodiest day in American history: the events leading up to it, the battle itself, and its aftermath. This critical victory for the Union shored up Lincoln’s political strength and freed him to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
March
In Brooks’ Pultzer-prize winning novel, the author richly imagines the wartime experiences of March, the absent father in Little Women. A chaplain in the Union Army, his experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction will test March’s most deeply held beliefs and change his marriage. Brooks drew on the journals and letters of Louisa May […]
Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
This volume includes nine of the sixteenth president’s most stirring addresses on issues of freedom, civic duty, slavery and the Constitution. The addresses include his early 1838 speech “Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois”, his famous “House Divided” and Cooper-Union speeches, as well as signal wartime addresses.
