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This is the only modern, published account of the Soldier’s Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania.  A bureaucrat of the system wrote a so-called history in 1873 but it is very self-serving and devoid o …

The first intellectual and social history of American anarchist thought and activism across the twentieth century In this highly accessible history of anarchism in the United States, Andrew Cornell r …

A Civil War First! Never has anything comparable to this massive volume been published on the Western Theatre in America’s War Between the States. Bush takes the reader through every major battle in …

When Confederates from Canada set fire to New York City hotels, Anathea awakens Raiford to help her rescue two children whose father dies. Raiford takes the orphans to their grandparents in Canada wh …

In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation’s growing inclination to fo …

During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette Mc Laws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and Joh …

A work of remarkable scope and depth of learning. [Dorman’s] principal contribution is wise, imaginative, and often revelatory readings of published texts.– Journal of Southern History '[Dorman] ski …

World War II was a turning point in twentieth-century American history, and its effects on American society have been studied from virtually every conceivable historical angle. Until now, though, the …

Home front and battle front merged in 1865 when General William T. Sherman occupied Savannah and then marched his armies north through the Carolinas. Although much has been written about the military …

IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the unco …