This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil WarOxford University Press, 2007 M01 29 - 272 páginas The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. McPherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South. Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays--pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. All of the essays have been updated and revised to give the volume greater thematic coherence and continuity, so that it can be read in sequence as an interpretive history of the war and its meaning for America and the world. Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose, and packed with new information and fresh ideas, this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation's leading authority on the Civil War. |
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... Yankee Lies: The Lost Cause Textbook Crusade III ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY 9. “We Stand by Each Other Always”: Grant and Sherman The Hard Hand of War Unvexed to the Sea: Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg Campaign IV HOME FRONT AND BATTLE ...
... Yankee Lies: The Lost Cause Textbook Crusade III ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY 9. “We Stand by Each Other Always”: Grant and Sherman The Hard Hand of War Unvexed to the Sea: Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg Campaign IV HOME FRONT AND BATTLE ...
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... Yankee Lies.” Ch. 13: Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South (Spring 1998), “Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers.” Ch. 14: American Historical Review (Feb. 2004), “No Peace Without xi Acknowledgments.
... Yankee Lies.” Ch. 13: Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South (Spring 1998), “Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers.” Ch. 14: American Historical Review (Feb. 2004), “No Peace Without xi Acknowledgments.
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... Yankee zealots. Revisionism thus tended to portray Southern whites, even the fireeaters, as victims reacting to Northern attacks; it truly was a “war of Northern aggression.” While one or more of these interpretations remain popular ...
... Yankee zealots. Revisionism thus tended to portray Southern whites, even the fireeaters, as victims reacting to Northern attacks; it truly was a “war of Northern aggression.” While one or more of these interpretations remain popular ...
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... Yankee abolitionists, “we ... are contending for all that we hold dear—our Property— our Institutions—our Honor. ... I hope it will end in establishing a Southern Confederacy who will have among themselves slavery, a bond of union ...
... Yankee abolitionists, “we ... are contending for all that we hold dear—our Property— our Institutions—our Honor. ... I hope it will end in establishing a Southern Confederacy who will have among themselves slavery, a bond of union ...
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... Yankee.”17 Later, however, as a distinguished historian of the antebellum South and the Confederacy, Dew was “stunned” to discover that protection of slavery and white supremacy was the dominant theme in secession rhetoric. Apostles of ...
... Yankee.”17 Later, however, as a distinguished historian of the antebellum South and the Confederacy, Dew was “stunned” to discover that protection of slavery and white supremacy was the dominant theme in secession rhetoric. Apostles of ...
Contenido
THE LOST CAUSE REVISITED | 41 |
ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY | 107 |
HOME FRONT AND BATTLE FRONT | 143 |
LINCOLN | 185 |
Notes | 223 |
Index | 253 |
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