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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... newspaper, because if slavery goes into a new territory “the free labor of the states will not. . . . If the free labor of the states goes there, the slave labor of the Southern states will not, and in a few years the country will teem ...
... newspaper, because if slavery goes into a new territory “the free labor of the states will not. . . . If the free labor of the states goes there, the slave labor of the Southern states will not, and in a few years the country will teem ...
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... newspaper editorial put it, considered the outcome “a deliberate, cold-blooded insult and outrage” that must be replied to by the challenge of secession. “No other 'overt act' can so imperatively demand resistance on our part,” declared ...
... newspaper editorial put it, considered the outcome “a deliberate, cold-blooded insult and outrage” that must be replied to by the challenge of secession. “No other 'overt act' can so imperatively demand resistance on our part,” declared ...
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... newspaper in an editorial echoed across the North. “If the minority have the right to break up the Government at pleasure, because they have not had their way, there is an end of all government.”30 Even lame-duck President James ...
... newspaper in an editorial echoed across the North. “If the minority have the right to break up the Government at pleasure, because they have not had their way, there is an end of all government.”30 Even lame-duck President James ...
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... newspaper, which she pretended to read. Since her master knew her to be illiterate, he did not look more closely. Another time she was carrying live chickens when she spotted someone who knew her. She dropped the birds and made a big ...
... newspaper, which she pretended to read. Since her master knew her to be illiterate, he did not look more closely. Another time she was carrying live chickens when she spotted someone who knew her. She dropped the birds and made a big ...
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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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