20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero, or back out as a cowar …

Winner of the Albert Castel Book Award Winner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award Winner of the Civil War Books and Authors Book of the Year Award In Soldiers from Experience, Eric …

Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln’s 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of violence, students g …

In his private journals, Franklin Archibald Dick, a St. Louis attorney, Union officer, and provost marshal general, wrote of his concerns about keeping Missouri pro-Union during the turbulent Civil W …

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflic …

American Civil War Era 1861-1865, African American Diaspora 1619-1865. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Procl …

Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. …

In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new …

Florence Kling Harding has come down through history as one of our most scorned first ladies. Victimized by caricatures and branded a shrew, she stands at the bottom of historians’ polls, her reputat …

In America’s Cold Warrior , James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving i …