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Examines the events preceding, during, and after the Battle of Antietam in 1862.
Focuses on the military careers of influential generals of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Provides a moving portrait of the commanders and men on both sides who fought and died in this inaugural clash of arms.
Describes the daily life, in the Confederacy, of ladies and gentlemen, slaves, middle class whites, and marginal characters.
Discusses the origins of the conflict in Bosnia and efforts being made to bring peace to the area.
Details how white trappers, explorers, and pathfinders engaged in violent encounters with Indians during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, both east and west of the Mississippi River.
The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you’ve been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham argues in his provocative new book, It Wasn’t About Slavery, no political party advocated freeing the slaves in the presidential election of 1860. The Republican Party platform opposed the expansion of slavery to the western states, but it did not embrace abolition. The real cause of the war was a dispute over money and self-determination. Before the Civil War, the South financed most of the federal government—because the federal government was funded by tariffs, which were paid disproportionately by the agricultural South t...