Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war
White bring “Our Little Monitor” to life once more in this beautifully illustrated volume
fought from 1861 to 1865 in regiments (infantry
Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
Through a fuller appreciation of the dynamics of sex and race
Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Section - Gettysburg Campaign Embattled Freedom reveals as neverFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide