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Funny Thing About the Civil War

Author : Thomas F. Curran
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650292
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Funny Thing About the Civil War written by Thomas F. Curran and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Wartime humor served as a form of propaganda to render the enemy and their cause laughable, but also to help people cope with the human costs of the conflict. After the war many authors and, later, movie and television producers employed humor to shape its legacy, perpetuating myths and stereotypes that became ingrained in American memory. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.

The 115th New York in the Civil War

Author : Mark Silo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The 115th New York in the Civil War written by Mark Silo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unit surrendered at Harpers Ferry in 1862, served out its parole in Chicago, and was convicted and banished to SC. Later absolved, they fought at Olustee, the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Cold Harbor, The Battle of the Crater, and Fort Fisher, and witnessed the liberation of slaves and captured Union soldiers. Appendices provide a chronology and regimental roster"--Provided by publisher.

An American Glossary

Author : Richard Hopwood Thornton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Glossary written by Richard Hopwood Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation are included: forms of speech now obsolete or provincial in England which survive in the U.S.; words and phrases of distinctly American origin; nouns which indicate quadrupeds, birds, trees, articles of food, etc. that are distinctly American; names of persons, classes of persons, and of places; words which have assumed new meanings; words and phrases with earlier American examples than in English writers.

Secessia

Author : Kent Wascom
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191339
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Secessia written by Kent Wascom and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven shares “a vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans” as Union soldiers take over in this panoramic Civil War novel (Ron Charles, Washington Post). The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin “the Beast” Butler. And when twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws his mother, Elise—a mixed-race woman passing for white—into a dark new world. Joseph grapples with his father’s legacy of violence and his own growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Meanwhile, Elise struggles to keep hold of her sanity, her son and her own precarious station. But she soon encounters a troubling figure from her past, a man who is deeply mired in the intrigue surrounding the city’s occupation. Alternating between the perspectives of five characters, Secessia weaves a tapestry of ravenous greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, set within the baroque melting-pot that is New Orleans. A Gothic tableaux vivant of epic scope and intimate horror, Secessia is the netherworld reflection of the conflict between north and south.

Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy

Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391551
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy written by Peter Carlson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus moments of antic comedy. On their long, strange adventure, Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters -- Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Rebel con men and Union spies, a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright, a sadistic hangman nicknamed "the Anti-Christ," a secret society called the Heroes of America, a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets, and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment. Peter Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed K Blows Top, has, in Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy, written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields, dark prisons, and cold mountains of the Civil War.

Closer to Freedom

Author : Stephanie M. H. Camp
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875767
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Closer to Freedom written by Stephanie M. H. Camp and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.

Tenants of the Almighty

Author : Arthur Franklin Raper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tenants of the Almighty written by Arthur Franklin Raper and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Greene county, Georgia, and its unified farm program. cf. Foreword.

Union Speeches Delivered in England During the Present American War

Author : George Francis Train
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Union Speeches Delivered in England During the Present American War written by George Francis Train and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island No. 10

Author : Larry J. Daniel
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817308164
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Island No. 10 written by Larry J. Daniel and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is useful to historians of the Civil War who wish to draw on it for an authoritative account of this campaign, and Civil War buffs will want it in their libraries". -- James M. McPherson Princeton University

The Literary News

Author : Frederick Leypoldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Literary News written by Frederick Leypoldt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Affair at the Inn

Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Affair at the Inn written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Train's Union Speeches

Author : George Francis Train
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Train's Union Speeches written by George Francis Train and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Closer to Freedom (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442995165
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Closer to Freedom (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blood of Heaven

Author : Kent Wascom
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802193501
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Blood of Heaven written by Kent Wascom and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The work of a young writer with tremendous ambition, a bildungsroman of religion and revolution set during an obscure chapter of American history.” —The Washington Post A powerful and impressive debut novel from the winner of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction—first in the Woolsack family saga that continues with Secessia and The New Inheritors. The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr. The Blood of Heaven is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut. “Wascom is a craftsman, and each of his lengthy, winding sentences shimmers with the tang of blood and bone and sweat, and the archaic splendor of his language.” —The Boston Globe

America, Naming the Country and Its People

Author : Allen Walker Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America, Naming the Country and Its People written by Allen Walker Read and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary News written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War Time

Author : Cheryl A. Wells
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034396X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Time written by Cheryl A. Wells and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies. Work bells, clock towers, and personal timepieces increasingly instilled discipline on one’s day, which already was ordered by religious custom and nature’s rhythms. The Civil War changed that, argues Cheryl A. Wells. Overriding antebellum schedules, war played havoc with people’s perception and use of time. For those closest to the fighting, the war’s effect on time included disrupted patterns of sleep, extended hours of work, conflated hours of leisure, indefinite prison sentences, challenges to the gender order, and desecration of the Sabbath. Wells calls this phenomenon “battle time.” To create a modern war machine military officers tried to graft the antebellum authority of the clock onto the actual and mental terrain of the Civil War. However, as Wells’s coverage of the Manassas and Gettysburg battles shows, military engagements followed their own logic, often without regard for the discipline imposed by clocks. Wells also looks at how battle time’s effects spilled over into periods of inaction, and she covers not only the experiences of soldiers but also those of nurses, prisoners of war, slaves, and civilians. After the war, women returned, essentially, to an antebellum temporal world, says Wells. Elsewhere, however, postwar temporalities were complicated as freedmen and planters, and workers and industrialists renegotiated terms of labor within parameters set by the clock and nature. A crucial juncture on America’s path to an ordered relationship to time, the Civil War had an acute effect on the nation’s progress toward a modernity marked by multiple, interpenetrating times largely based on the clock.