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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... wrote their histories of the Confederacy, slavery was gone with the wind—a dead and discredited institution. To concede that the Confederacy had broken up the United States and launched a war that killed 620,000 Americans in a vain ...
... wrote their histories of the Confederacy, slavery was gone with the wind—a dead and discredited institution. To concede that the Confederacy had broken up the United States and launched a war that killed 620,000 Americans in a vain ...
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... wrote Charles A. Beard, doyen of the Progressive school, “was it a sectional struggle”—the accidental fact that plantation agriculture was located in the South and industry mainly in the North.6 Nor was it a contest between slavery and ...
... wrote Charles A. Beard, doyen of the Progressive school, “was it a sectional struggle”—the accidental fact that plantation agriculture was located in the South and industry mainly in the North.6 Nor was it a contest between slavery and ...
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... wrote Frank Owsley, a Nashville Fugitive and one of the most influential historians of the South from the 1920s to the 1950s, “was part of the agrarian system, but only one element and not an essential one”—but rather such matters as ...
... wrote Frank Owsley, a Nashville Fugitive and one of the most influential historians of the South from the 1920s to the 1950s, “was part of the agrarian system, but only one element and not an essential one”—but rather such matters as ...
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... wrote them down in brief connected narratives published in 1863 and 1865 and a full-length book in 1869. The author of the last, Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman, was Sarah Bradford, who also collected reminiscences from people ...
... wrote them down in brief connected narratives published in 1863 and 1865 and a full-length book in 1869. The author of the last, Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman, was Sarah Bradford, who also collected reminiscences from people ...
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... wrote it herself—with editorial assistance from Child, to be sure—but also that all the events described by Jacobs are corroborated by other evidence. Unlike Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs left a substantial trail of letters and other ...
... wrote it herself—with editorial assistance from Child, to be sure—but also that all the events described by Jacobs are corroborated by other evidence. Unlike Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs left a substantial trail of letters and other ...
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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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