What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
6 best books like What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Chandra Manning): Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
| Author | Taylor Branch |
| ISBN | 0333529456 |
First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. This 1000-page effort, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction,...
| Author | Marc Reisner |
| ISBN | 0140178244 |
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0140159940 |
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Washington politics. We witness the successes and...
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0195078063 |
When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative...
| Author | Jim Downs |
| ISBN | 0199758727 |
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking...
