The Civil War In 50 Objects
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Author |
: Harold Holzer |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 519 |
Release |
: 2013-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101613115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101613114 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Civil War in 50 Objects by : Harold Holzer
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War. Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society’s acclaimed collection. A daguerreotype of an elderly, dignified ex-slave; a soldier’s footlocker still packed with its contents; Grant’s handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox—the stories these objects tell are rich, poignant, sometimes painful, and always fascinating. They illuminate the conflict from all perspectives—Union and Confederate, military and civilian, black and white, male and female—and give readers a deeply human sense of the war.
Author |
: Julie L. Holcomb |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2021-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538118566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538118564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures by : Julie L. Holcomb
Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war—its causes and its consequences— continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.
Author |
: Elina Gertsman |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2018-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108340816 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108340814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Middle Ages in 50 Objects by : Elina Gertsman
The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.
Author |
: Smithsonian Institution |
Publisher |
: Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2013-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588343901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588343901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Smithsonian Civil War by : Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous, and previously unseen relics from the war in a truly unique narrative. Smithsonian Civil War takes the reader inside the great collection of Americana housed at twelve national museums and archives and brings historical gems to light. From the National Portrait Gallery come rare early photographs of Stonewall Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant; from the National Museum of American History, secret messages that remained hidden inside Lincoln's gold watch for nearly 150 years; from the National Air and Space Museum, futuristic Civil War-era aircraft designs. Thousands of items were evaluated before those of greatest value and significance were selected for inclusion here. Artfully arranged in 150 entries, they offer a unique, panoramic view of the Civil War.
Author |
: Leora Auslander |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501720093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501720090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Objects of War by : Leora Auslander
The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement.― Utah Public Radio Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered. Objects of War illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Chapters consider theft and pillaging as strategies of conquest; soldiers' relationships with their weapons; and the use of clothing and domestic goods by prisoners of war, extermination camp inmates, freed people, and refugees to make claims and to create a kind of normalcy. While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a broad temporal canvas, serves historians and others well as they seek to push beyond the written word. Contributors: Noah Benninga, Sandra H. Dudley, Bonnie Effros, Cathleen M. Giustino, Alice Goff, Gerdien Jonker, Aubrey Pomerance, Iris Rachamimov, Brandon M. Schechter, Jeffrey Wallen, and Sarah Jones Weicksel
Author |
: Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2009-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375703836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375703837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Republic of Suffering by : Drew Gilpin Faust
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author |
: Caroline E. Janney |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469607061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469607069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remembering the Civil War by : Caroline E. Janney
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Author |
: Anonymous |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 1986-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780918222848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0918222842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mourt's Relation by : Anonymous
Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.
Author |
: Peter F. Copeland |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 2001-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0486415449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780486415444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Soldier's Life in the Civil War by : Peter F. Copeland
Well-researched coloring book dramatically captures the danger, hardships, tedium, and lighter moments in the life of a Civil War soldier. 45 realistically rendered illustrations depict new recruits saying good-bye to loved ones, trying on uniforms, spending a relaxed evening in camp, posing for a photographer, facing a cavalry attack, and much more.
Author |
: Douglas Southall Freeman |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1998-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807123161 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807123164 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The South to Posterity by : Douglas Southall Freeman
After the publication of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, many Confederate historians were asked, “What shall I read next?” To answer the requests for further writings on the Civil War era, distinguished historian Douglas Southall Freeman assembled this bibliography of the best narratives, memoirs, and other works—those that tell their stories simply, with wit and realism—that provide a good introduction to literature on the Lost Cause. In contrast to most bibliographies, The South to Posterity reads easily and often movingly. In eight masterful chapters, Freeman reviews soldiers’ battlefield accounts; vindications penned just after the war; biographies of and tributes to General Robert E. Lee; women’s commentaries; thoughts from foreign observers and participants; and diaries, letters, and speeches. Finally, he discusses topics yet to be addressed. A new introduction by Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher provides an excellent background to Freeman’s life and work and considers what has been accomplished in the field since the book first appeared.