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Publikováno v:
Marine Corps Gazette; Feb97, Vol. 81 Issue 2, p64, 7p, 2 Black and White Photographs, 5 Diagrams
Autor:
Finneman, Teri
Publikováno v:
Nineteenth Century Gender Studies; Summer2014, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p4-22, 19p
Autor:
Michael E. Woods
As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democra
Autor:
Michael P. Rucker
Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarkably effective. One such officer was Edmund Winchest
Autor:
Lee, Heath Hardage
Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero Gene
Autor:
John Grady
In becoming'a useful man'on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind t
Autor:
Rachel A. Shelden
Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rach
Autor:
Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Thomas E. Schott
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 A
Autor:
Candace Bailey
Candace Bailey's exploration of the intertwining worlds of music and gender shows how young southern women pushed the boundaries of respectability to leave their unique mark on a patriarchal society. Before 1861, a strictly defined code of behavior a
Autor:
Edward G. Longacre
Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), a Confederate general whose life provides a unique, sweeping insight into the entire histor