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Professor Brooks Simpson

In this account of the bloodiest war fought on American soil, Brooks Simpson recounts the events of the war from the opening salvo at Fort Sumter through the battlefields of Gettysburg and Shiloh to the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House.A History of the Civil War brings to life the realities of the war and the people who lived through it. It explains how the politics around slavery led to an unbridgeable divide between North and South and examines the strateg...

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Civil War America

The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the day Sherman bade farewell to his troops in 1865. Together, they trace Sherman’s rise from obscurity to become one of the Union’s most famous and effective warriors.Arranged chronologically and grouped into chapters that correspond to significant phases in Sherman’s life, the letters — ma...

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Brooks D. Simpson

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Civil War America

Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S. Grant’s military and political careers. In Let Us Have Peace, Brooks Simpson questions such distinctions and offers a new understanding of this often enigmatic leader. He argues that during the 1860s Grant was both soldier and politician, for military and civil policy were inevitably intertwined during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. According to Simpson, Grant instinctively understood that war was 'politics...

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Brooks D. Simpson

"The best study of Grant's military career since Bruce Catton's two volumes. . . . The best treatment of Union military command and strategy now in print." — The New RepublicMany modern historians have painted Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher, a drunk, and a failure as president. Others have argued the exact opposite and portray him with saintlike levels of ethic and intellect.In Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity 1822–1865, historian Bro...

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Brooks D. Simpson

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Reflections on the Civil War Era

This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that shows how politics, public perception, geography, and logistics shaped the course of military operations in the East.For all the literature about Civil War military operations and leadership, precious little has been written about strategy, particularly in what has become known as th...

The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street JournalFew periods in American history are more consequential but less un...

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Leo J. Blanken, Jason J. Lepore, Hy Rothstein, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier, Edward G. Lengel, Brooks D. Simpson, Col. Michael Richardson, Brian McAllister Linn, D. Scott Stephenson, Gehrard Weinberg, Conrad C. Crane, Gregory Daddis, William C. Hix, Kalev I. Sepp, Alejandro S. Hernandez, Julian Ouellet, Christopher J. Nannini, Mark Stout, Bradley J. Strawser, Russell Muirhead, Dorothy Denning, Robert Reilly, Aric P. Shafran, Anthony H. Cordesman

Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory an...

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Library of America: The Civil War Collection

**The first volume in a four-volume series on the American Civil War—featuring first-hand writings from Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and moreThis “mesmerizing and deeply troubling” glimpse into the Civil War era “will forever deepen the way you see this central chapter in our history . . . a masterpiece” (Newsweek).**After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bibl...

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Library of America: The Civil War Collection

This third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a “masterpiece” traces events from January 1863 to March 1864—a crucial period in the American Civil WarSpanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America’s highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Unio...

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A. Brooks, R. Simpson

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Social Sciences (R0)

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of domestic violence.

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Nina Bogin, Frederick Morgan, Franz Schneider, Charles Gullans, Joseph Bennett, John Finlay, Marilyn Nelson, Brooke Allen, Abraham Pais, Louis Simpson, Anne Stevenson, Daniel Hoffman, John Ridland, Maria Terrone, Maxine Kumin, Benjamin Fondane, John Balaban, Donka Farkas, Tennessee Williams, Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Wendell Berry, Julián Ríos, Nick Caistor, Asako Serizawa, Luke Mogelson, Lara Prescott, Cary Holladay, Ronald Koury

Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations ...

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James Robertson Jr., Thavolia Glymph, Stephen Cushman, Judith A. Giesberg, James Marten, William Blair, Joseph Glatthaar, Stephen Berry, Caroline E. Janney, Joan Waugh, Earl Hess, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Megan Kate Nelson, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Emory Thomas, Harold Holzer, Stephen Berry, Brooks D. Simpson, Ethan S. Rafuse, Carol Reardon, Daniel E. Sutherland, Elizabeth R. Varon, T. Michael Parrish, Steven E. Woodworth, Jane E. Schultz, Kathryn J. Shively

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental history.The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclecti...