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Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond
During the Civil War, 22-year-old William Woodlin, a musician in the 8th United States Colored Troops, and 18-year-old Cyrena Hammond, from Clarendon, New York, kept diaries about their experiences and observations. They recorded the...
H. W. Brands - "Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution"
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Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History at the University of Houston, chose 360 original documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The authors have woven these...
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Freedom from Fear focuses primarily on political and economic developments, recounting how presidents and citizens responded to the two great...
Elizabeth Varon - "Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War"
Elizabeth Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and the associate director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Order Armies of Deliverance at the Gilder...
Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 1: Washington
Josiah Bunting III is president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the author of Ulysses S. Grant (2004). In a series of three lectures, Josiah Bunting III examines the lives of George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and...
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