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Author : Charles D. Collins (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Historical Simulation and the American Civil War written by Charles D. Collins (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Riccardo Masini
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040117198
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Historical Simulation and Wargames written by Riccardo Masini and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study on analog historical simulation games, exploring both their theoretical concepts and practical solutions. It considers the various ways used by simulation games to depict the different dynamics of historical events and analyzes how commercial analog miniature and board wargames can become valuable tools for historical research and provide a more modern and captivating interpretation of past events. The nature of “simulation” is discussed, exposing its differences with other forms of ludic activity, both analog and digital, as well as intellectual speculation. Many of the most common game mechanics are analyzed in depth and in their practical use, to answer whether “reconstructive” simulations dedicated to historical episodes can provide valuable, reliable and useful insights for researchers. It critically examines the challenges presented to game designers that look to produce an accurate (even if not necessarily complex) simulation of historical events. The book will be of great interest to those curious about the potential applications of such a powerful research and experimental tool for historical, sociologic and anthropologic research, as well as wargaming and board gaming enthusiasts looking to gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of historical simulations.
Author : Tim Bailey
Publisher : Teaching Resources
ISBN 13 : 9780439522199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Civil War written by Tim Bailey and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes easy step-by-step directions, plus reproducible student worksheets and rubrics-everything you need to run a successful simulation!
Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199939365
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Fateful Lightning written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently ended the practice of slavery and proved, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could survive the most frightful of challenges. In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil War era, it extends the reader's vista to include the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil War in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the conflict in a global perspective, underscoring Americans' acute sense of the vulnerability of their republic in a world of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and especially the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Written by a leading authority on our nation's most searing crisis, Fateful Lightning offers a vivid and original account of an event whose echoes continue with Americans to this day.
Author : Patrick A. Lewis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807183458
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Playing at War written by Patrick A. Lewis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation, distortion, and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians, the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video games that topically engage the period surrounding the American Civil War, from the earliest console games developed in the 1980s through the web-based games of the twenty-first century, including popular titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and War of Rights. Alongside discussions of technological capabilities and advances, as well as their impact on gameplay and content, the essays consider how these games engage with historical scholarship on the Civil War era, the degree to which video games reflect and contribute to popular understandings of the period, and how those dynamics reveal shifting conceptions of martial identity and historical memory within U.S. popular culture. Video games offer productive sites for extending the analysis of Civil War memory into the post–Confederates in the Attic era, including the political and cultural moments of Obama and Trump, where overt expressions of Lost Cause memory were challenged and removed from schools and public spaces, then embraced by new manifestations of white supremacist organizations. Edited by Patrick A. Lewis and James Hill Welborn III, Playing at War traces the drift of Civil War memory into digital spaces and gaming cultures, encouraging historians to engage more extensively with video games as important cultural media for examining how contemporary Americans interact with the nation’s past.
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195117964
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Drawn with the Sword written by James M. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An issue-oriented discussion of the Civil War by one of the leading living historians on the subject. Explores questions such as who freed the slaves and why the North won. Concludes with a final essay: What's the Matter with History?
Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253109027
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History written by Gary W. Gallagher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own. Misrepresenting the war’s true origins and its actual course, the myth of the Lost Cause distorts our national memory. In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, nine historians describe and analyze the Lost Cause, identifying ways in which it falsifies history—creating a volume that makes a significant contribution to Civil War historiography. “The Lost Cause . . . is a tangible and influential phenomenon in American culture and this book provides an excellent source for anyone seeking to explore its various dimensions.” —Southern Historian
Author : Jeremiah McCall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136832092
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Gaming the Past written by Jeremiah McCall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and learning tools in their classes. As the games and learning field continues to grow in importance, Gaming the Past provides social studies teachers and teacher educators help in implementing this unique and engaging new pedagogy. This book focuses on specific examples to help social studies educators effectively use computer simulation games to teach critical thinking and historical analysis. Chapters cover the core parts of conceiving, planning, designing, and implementing simulation based lessons. Additional topics covered include: Talking to colleagues, administrators, parents, and students about the theoretical and practical educational value of using historical simulation games. Selecting simulation games that are aligned to curricular goals Determining hardware and software requirements, purchasing software, and preparing a learning environment incorporating simulations Planning lessons and implementing instructional strategies Identifying and avoiding common pitfalls Developing activities and assessments for use with simulation games that facilitate the interpretation and creation of established and new media Also included are sample unit and lesson plans and worksheets as well as suggestions for further reading. The book ends with brief profiles of the majority of historical simulation games currently available from commercial vendors and freely on the Internet.
Author : Billy Roper
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514712405
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Look Away written by Billy Roper and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Look Away, an alternate history of the Civil War', history hangs by a thread. A single moment can create ripples which change everything. What if Mary Todd Lincoln had a bad night's rest? A harsher Emancipation Proclamation causes slave revolts, reprisals, and a different end to the South's invasion of Pennsylvania. Intervention by European powers on both sides of the conflict transform the American Civil War into The Great War, with global repercussions for everyone involved!
Author : Peter Tsouras
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161608460X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Dixie Victorious written by Peter Tsouras and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a series of fascinating 'What If's' posed by leading military historians, this intriguing new alternate history reconstructs moments during the American Civil War which could conceivably have led to a Confederate victory.
Author : Sarah Sheffield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823982325
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Life During the American Civil War written by Sarah Sheffield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Copy
Author : Thomas F. Army Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419386
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Engineering Victory written by Thomas F. Army Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War. Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering—not superior military strategy or industrial advantage—as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome. Army finds that Union soldiers were able to apply scientific ingenuity and innovation to complex problems in a way that Confederate soldiers simply could not match. Skilled Free State engineers who were trained during the antebellum period benefited from basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices, and a culture that encouraged learning and innovation. During the war, their rapid construction and repair of roads, railways, and bridges allowed Northern troops to pass quickly through the forbidding terrain of the South as retreating and maneuvering Confederates struggled to cut supply lines and stop the Yankees from pressing any advantage. By presenting detailed case studies from both theaters of the war, Army clearly demonstrates how the soldiers’ education, training, and talents spelled the difference between success and failure, victory and defeat. He also reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war’s outcome.
Author : Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465576347
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War written by Eugenia Dunlap Potts and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No pen or brush can picture life in the old Southern States in the ante-bellum days. The period comprehends two hundred and fifty years of history without a parallel. A separate and distinct civilization was there represented, the like of which can never be reproduced. Socially, intellectually, politically and religiously, she stood pre-eminent, among nations. It was the spirit of the cavalier that created and sustained our greatness. Give the Puritan his due, and still the fact remains. The impetus that led to freedom from Great Britain, came from the South. A Southern General led the ragged Continentals on to victory. Southern jurists and Southern statesmanship guided the councils of wisdom. The genius of war pervaded her people. She gave presidents, cabinet officers, commanders, tacticians and strategists. Her legislation extended the country's territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A writer aptly says: "For more than fifty formative years of our history the Old South was the dominating power in the nation, as it had been in the foundation of the colonies out of which came the Republic, and later in fighting its battles of independence and in forming its policies of government. * * * Whatever of strength or symmetry the republic had acquired at home, or reputation it had achieved abroad, in those earlier crucial days of its history, was largely due to the patriotism and ability of Southern statesmanship. Why that scepter of leadership has passed from its keeping, or why the New South is no longer at the front of national leadership, is a question that might well give pause to one who recalls the brave days when the Old South sat at the head of the table and directed the affairs of the nation."
Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703837
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : Alan A. Conway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Causes of the American Civil War written by Alan A. Conway and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Mackowski
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1954547064
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)
Download or read book The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War written by Chris Mackowski and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thought-provoking and entertaining . . . What if Lincoln had dodged the assassin’s bullet? What if Lee had waged guerrilla warfare in April 1865?” —Gordon C. Rhea, author of the Overland Campaign series “What if. . . ?” Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More questions arise. “What if . . .” can be more than an exercise in wistful fantasy. A serious inquiry sparks rigorous exploration, demands critical thinking, and unlocks important insights. The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict’s Most Intriguing Possibilities is a collection of fourteen essays by the historians at Emerging Civil War, and includes a Foreword by acclaimed alternate history writer Peter G. Tsouras. Each entry focuses on one of the most important events of the war and unpacks the options of the moment. To understand what happened, we must look with a clear and objective eye at what could have happened, with the full multitude of choices before us. “What if” is a tool for illumination. These essays also explode the assumptions people make when they ask “what if” and then jump to wishful conclusions. This collection offers not alternate histories or counterfactual scenarios, but an invitation to ask, to learn, and to wonder . . . “A lively and engaging examination of those perennial ‘second guesses’ no student of the war fails to appreciate. No ‘pie in the sky’ here—each exploration is firmly rooted in fact, with a keen appreciation of context, providing provocative insight without sacrificing history.” —David A. Powell, author of the award–winning series The Chickamauga Campaign
Author : Max W. Fischer
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 1557344809
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)
Download or read book American History Simulations written by Max W. Fischer and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1993 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities designed to bring the past into the present getting students involved with situations relevant to famous episodes in American history through simulations.
