Kategoria BISAC: History >> United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)

If we're to believe the nearly 20,000 books that have been written about President Lincoln by pro-North and New South historians, he was an ardent abolitionist, a Bible-believing Christian, and a Constitution-loving conservative who headed the most ethical administration in U.S. history, preserved the Union, ended American slavery, and became the black man's greatest champion by granting him full civil and equal rights. In fact, according to Lincoln's own words, nothing could be further from the truth.

After reading the eye-opening book, The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln, by...

Why in the 21st Century should we care about "the Old Rebel" Robert E. Lee, a Victorian who was old fashioned even during his own time, and who died nearly 150 years ago? Why a book about how his peers saw him, when the world he lived in disappeared long ago, making his life and death seemingly meaningless to those of us living in the modern era?

In The Old Rebel: Robert E. Lee As He Was Seen By His Contemporaries, award-winning author and Southern historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook provides the answers: in our ever growing impersonal cyber age where we continue to...

Though Nathan Bedford Forrest was not a writer, had little formal education, never authored a book, and was not a professional speaker, he did leave us with a number of witty comments, profound words, and sublime statements. Award-winning author, Southern historian, and Forrest scholar Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook has gathered together some of the more memorable and impressive of these and forged them into a small but fascinating work: The Quotable Nathan Bedford Forrest: Selections From the Writings and Speeches of the Confederacy's Most Brilliant Cavalryman.

Among the...

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, "John Dooley, Confederate Soldier," became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett s Charge and subsequently captured.
As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley s original journal that fails to capture the full scope...

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acclaimed works as "Lincoln and the Radicals, Lincoln and His Generals," and a biography of Huey Long that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but he also mentored generations of students who became distinguished historians in their own right. In this collection, ten of those former students, along with one author greatly inspired by Williams s example, offer incisive essays that honor both Williams and his career-long dedication to sound, imaginative scholarship and broad...

In 1845 Texans voted overwhelmingly to join the Union. They voted just as overwhelmingly to secede in 1861. The story of why and how that happened is filled with colorful characters, such as the aged Sam Houston, and with the southwestern flavor of raiding Comanches, German opponents of slavery, and a border with Mexico.

Texas was unique among the seceding states because of its ambivalence toward secession. Yet for all its uniqueness the story of the secession of Texas has broad implications for the secession movement in general. Despite the local color and the southwestern nature of...