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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... territories would make “property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless . . thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars”?2 And had not the new vice president of the Confederate States ...
... territories would make “property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless . . thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars”?2 And had not the new vice president of the Confederate States ...
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... territory. Most of the crises that threatened the bonds of union arose over this matter. The first one, in 1820, was settled by the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with the admission of ...
... territory. Most of the crises that threatened the bonds of union arose over this matter. The first one, in 1820, was settled by the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with the admission of ...
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... territories acquired from Mexico in the 1840s made the Missouri debates a generation earlier look like a love feast ... Territory (most of present-day Oklahoma). And one reason for die-hard Southern opposition to the admission of ...
... territories acquired from Mexico in the 1840s made the Missouri debates a generation earlier look like a love feast ... Territory (most of present-day Oklahoma). And one reason for die-hard Southern opposition to the admission of ...
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... territory that might be conquered from Mexico. By an almost unanimous vote of all Northern congressmen against virtually unanimous opposition from Southern representatives, the resolution passed. Equal representation in the Senate ...
... territory that might be conquered from Mexico. By an almost unanimous vote of all Northern congressmen against virtually unanimous opposition from Southern representatives, the resolution passed. Equal representation in the Senate ...
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... territories. Such expansion might increase their own chances of becoming slaveholders. In another respect that may seem an abstraction today but was very real to antebellum Southern white men, slavery in the territories was a vital ...
... territories. Such expansion might increase their own chances of becoming slaveholders. In another respect that may seem an abstraction today but was very real to antebellum Southern white men, slavery in the territories was a vital ...
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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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