Reflections on the Civil War

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Reflections on the Civil War should particularly appeal to readers seeking a concise, and yet insightful introduction to the Civil War. This relatively short book, about pages, would be ideal for supplementary reading for advanced high school students or undergraduates.4/4(13). This is the second time I have read Bruce Catton's Reflections on the Civil is no less wonderful this time than when I read it in Clearly in a volume this slim (ish pages of text) a reader is never going to encounter a comprehensive history of the war, but you can get a 4/5.

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FREE Shipping on $35 or more. Due to COVID, orders may be : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Edited after his death from many hours of tapes, Reflections on the Civil War paints an intimate portrait of the experience of war.

From the larger-than-life figures of Lincoln and Lee to the young Union soldier John B. Geyser, whose sensitive drawings enhance the pages of this book. Reflections on the Civil War.

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Reflections on the Civil War by Catton, Bruce, Publication date Topics American Civil War (), United States -- History -- Civil War,United States The original book is printed faintly. leaf is text cut off. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Associated-names Leekley, John Pages: James M.

McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and 4/5(2).

Get this from a library. Reflections on the Civil War. [Bruce Catton; John Leekley; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)] -- The eminent historian's posthumous summation of the Civil War's causes and effects illuminates crucial events and personalities and is complemented by rare, on-the-scene sketches kept by a Union.

The Civil War was about the economic sectionalism, the conflict of cultures, and about the north neglecting the south. While slavery may have been the cause of these issues, the war was not about slavery. It was the South’s dependence on slavery that caused the war, not the institution of slavery itself.

Tom Brokow’s best-selling book, The Greatest Generation, refers to that generation fighting during World War II making the world safe for democracy, as “the greatest generation.” My own belief is that the generation who fought on both sides of the American Civil War could have the greater claim to being the “greatest generation” in.

About Reflections on the Civil War. Edited from tapes that the Pulitzer prize-winnng historian made before his death, this moving, informative book paints an intimate portrait of war. It’s a chronicle of motives and emotions, from larger than life figures Lincoln and Lee to young John B.

Historian Edward Ayers talked about his latest book, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart Reflections on Writing About the Civil War. Views Program ID. James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War.

Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order."Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of/5.

Civil War Musings and Reflections: New Book Published Ap “Contextualizing” Confederate Civil War Monuments — the Upcoming Challenge Ap Sour kraut, Onions, and Potatoes: An Easter Feast of Ap History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a "dogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions."Throughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy.

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The Verge: Reflections on a Second Civil War. By Paul Starobin “A re We on the Verge of Another Civil War?” So asks The Nation, in a headline for an interview with David Armitage, the Harvard historian and author of the recent book, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Knopf, ).Bloody Promenade grew out of one perceptive person's nearly life-long attempt to understand the complex meanings of the Civil War.

Ranging across a spacious landscape that embraces historic sites, memoirs by participants, works of fiction, and studies by historians, Stephen Cushman has written a contemplative book that should appeal to anyone interested in our great national crisis and why it Author: Stephen Cushman. James M.

McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War.

Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order."Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and 3/5(2).