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by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“So this is the little lady who made this big war.” Abraham Lincoln’s apocryphal comment upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe demonstrates the significant place Uncle Tom’s Cabin holds in American history – and literature. Stowe’s timeless and moving novel inflamed the passions and prejudices of thousands, fanning the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society’s failures and asks a profound question: “What is it to be a moral human being?” As the novel that helped move a nation to battle, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people.
$5.95 soft cover
by Joan D. Hedrick
In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years. Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the multilayered world of nineteenth century morals and mores, exploring the influence of then popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion who was also a mother of seven. She goes on to offer a lively record of the flourishing parlor societies that launched and sustained Stowe through the forty-five years of her career, and the harsh physical realities that governed so many women's lives. Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her beloved eighteen month old son, the drowning of another son, and the alcohol and morphine addictions of two of her other children.
Magisterial in its breadth and rich in detail, this definitive portrait explores the full measure of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life and contribution to American literature, and offers a fascinating look at the pain, pleasures, and accomplishments of women's lives in the last century.
$27.95 soft cover
Who Would Not Be a Soldier!
The Boys of the 20th Maine
by Valerie M. Josephson
Town Meeting, Hodgdon, Maine: “That was just forty years ago! We’ve only been part of the United States of America as the great state of Maine for forty years, and now a handful of Southern states want to destroy the Union. We people in Maine fought the king of England for our freedom, we fought the state of Massachusetts for our freedom, we fought the U.S. Congress to get admitted as a state! Now we’re goin’ to fight to keep the Union together. We’re goin’ to fight!”
The Mud March: “I tell ya, if I have to die in this war, I don’t want to die in a sea of mud like those poor horses pullin’ boats through the woods. I don’t want to die in a river because they put too many men on the boat. I don’t want to die in a hospital bed from fever. Let me die in a big hot gunfight with the flag behind me – not this slow death.” Gooding said his voice cracking with emotion. “Would anyone at home believe this is how you get the Union back together?”
At the Battle of Little Round Top: “Here they come again, boys,” Captain Land yelled. He cautioned them, “Hold your fire, boys, be alert.” The rebels again emerged from the brush and were moving left, coming up the slope at an angle, firing as they came. In an instant, Mans recognized their skill – up a rocky slope, at an angle, stepping over their fallen brothers, and sending up a masking fire.
$15.00 soft cover
The Killer Angels
A Novel of the Civil War
by Michael Shaara
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war.
The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable – a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny.
$13.95 soft cover
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell
Sex in the Civil War
By Thomas P. Lowry, M.D.
Dr. Lowry has laid out an impressive banquet of facts and salty anecdotes. Writing with both medical knowledge and a physician’s detachment, he has produced an upright study of an usually prostrate subject. Such is a rarity in literature.
James I. Robertson, Jr.
New York Times
Walt Whitman said of the Civil War that “the real war will never get in the books.” Part of that real war gets into this book, including some stories that Whitman could have told had he chosen to do so. Employing an anecdotal style, Thomas Lowry illuminates the underside of the Civil War.
James M. McPherson, author of
Battle Cry of Freedom
Lowry is a very good writer, and approaches the subject seriously, but with just a little bit of humor to enliven an already lively subject. The result is a book with considerable appeal both to the serious Civil War scholar and to a more general audience.
William C. Davis, author of
Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour
Dr. Thomas Lowry’s The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell is based on diligent investigation of primary sources rather than on ex cathedra pronouncements. As a result it sheds major new light on Americans of the Civil War era.
Robert K. Krick, author of
Lee’s Colonels
$19.95 hardcover
The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics
Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen
Published by Stackpole Books
Prepared under the direction of the U.S. War Department and approved by the President for instruction, exercises, and maneuvers of the United States Infantry during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). The 1863 U.S. Infantry Tactics presents an unequaled description of how the U.S. Infantry was organized, trained, and fought and includes:
Invaluable for students, writers, historians, reenactors, and those interested in military formations, tactics, and maneuvers in the American Civil War.
$22.95 hardcover
Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry
1862
by Daniel Butterfield
In one of the first Civil War army field manuals, General Butterfield consolidated into one concise book, directives on:
This 1862 compendium became a standard in the Union Army. Today, it is especially useful to students, writers, historians, reenactors, and those interested in army field operations during the American Civil War.
$11.95 hardcover
Great Maps of the Civil War
Pivotal Battles and Campaigns Featuring 32 Removable Maps
A Museum in a Book
by William J. Miller
When Union Gen. George McClellan marched toward the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862, he encountered the Warwick River “where it wasn’t supposed to be.” McClellan was following a map created by an esteemed topographer, but the map was wrong!
“The Cram Map” that McClellan was using is one of the removable maps in Great Maps of the Civil War. So is the map Union Gen. James B. McPherson was carrying when he was killed on July 22, 1864, just east of Atlanta.
“Commanders moving their armies…often had to advance slowly, groping their way blindly,” says William Miller. “They used what maps they could find, but most contained serious errors …Studies of Civil War maps usually focus on handsome, post battle maps of battlefields …While these maps explain how a battle was fought, they do nothing to help us answer the questions about why a battle or campaign was conducted as it was.” The maps in Great Maps of the Civil War are the ones the commanders actually used or were likely to have been available to them.
$34.99 hardcover
Don Troiani’s American Battles
The Art of the Nation at War, 1754 – 1865,
Art by Don Troiani,
Text by Robert K. Krick, Keith Knoke, Lee White, Robert E.L. Krick, Dr. Richard Sauers, James L. Kochan, Bob McDonald, Jay Jorgensen, Dr. David Evans, and Brian Pohanka,
Foreward by Peter Harrington
In this panoramic tour of America’s military past, acclaimed artist Don Troiani once again turns his brush to the wars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on the storied battles of those conflicts. From the French and Indian War through the Civil War, Troiani brings his flair for painstaking detail and high drama to such famous battle scenes as Bushy Run, Bunker Hill, Cowpens, Burnside’s Bridge at Antietam, Little Round Top at Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Narratives by leading military historians accompany the paintings and provide background stories that are as exciting as they are informative. For many of the pieces, Troiani has written insightful and often humorous commentary on the joys, surprises, and challenges of the creative process, offering a rare glimpse of the artist at work. Don Troiani’s American Battles is his most unique work to date, a must-have for newcomers and old fans alike.
$49.95 hardcover
Don Troiani’s Soldiers in America 1754 – 1865
Art by Don Troiani
Text by Earl J. Coates and James L. Kochan
Foreward by Brian Pohanka
This sweeping tour through America 's military past provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the soldier of the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Supporting nearly 200 photos are firsthand accounts describing military fashion in Europe and America and 75 of Troiani’s impeccable color illustrations.
$55.00 hardcover
Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War
by Christopher K. Coleman
Explore the strange and shadowy side of the Civil War…
This book is a fascinating collection of ghostly sightings, auspicious visions, audible manifestations, and uncanny premonitions.
$12.99 soft cover
The Civil War
A Book of Quotations
Edited by Bob Blaisdell
More than 700 provocative declarations in this fascinating book constitute a running narrative by many who lived through or died in the Civil War. The voices of the great and famous, the ordinary and unknown, resound in these pages that bear historic witness to key events before, during, and after the war.
Arranged chronologically and divided into sections on specific topics and events, this well-researched volume puts a human face on history and provides a unique perspective on the Civil War and its times. Of interest to Civil War buffs, students, and teachers of American history, this volume will also serve as a handy aid for speechwriters and public speakers.
$4.95 soft cover
Civil War Trivia and Fact Book
by Webb Garrison
In Civil War Trivia and Fact Book more than 2,000 unusual, interesting, and little-known facts are assembled in a volume that will tantalize the mind at every page.
What Confederate general could be identified at a distance by the ostrich plume in his hat? How many Southerners migrated to the North during the war? How many Northerners moved to the South? These and hundreds of other questions are answered.
Included are 33 fascinating sidebar articles, lists of little-known facts, and 48 unusual photographs and stories. A thorough index makes the Civil War Trivia and Fact Book a valuable resource for students and researchers.
$12.99 soft cover
Civil War Curiosities
Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences
by Webb Garrison
Civil War Curiosities uncovers those unusual persons, attitudes, and events that take you beyond a textbook understanding of the Civil War. A collection of fascinating anecdotes and colorful stories, this book covers a wide variety of subjects, including “newfangled” weapons that changed the nature of war, the press’ outrageous inaccuracy in covering the conflict, the phenomenon of “silent battles,” and various disguises, atrocities, and mix-ups.
$12.99 soft cover
More Civil War Curiosities
Fascinating Tales, Infamous Characters, and Strange Coincidences
by Webb Garrison
More Civil War Curiosities contains strange but true stories from the four-year conflict that raged across a one-thousand-mile battlefront with more than three million men in uniform. Anything could and often did happen. Webb Garrison recounts instances of friendly fire casualties, the unperfected art of spying, banishments and deportings, grisly tales of missing limbs, name changes for both people and ships, disguises that worked (and some that did not), and many “firsts” and “lasts”.
$12.99 soft cover
Amazing Women of the Civil War
by Webb Garrison
The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies. Women cared for wounded soldiers. Women were effective spies. And it is estimated that 300 women fought on the battlefields, usually disguised as men. The most fascinating Civil War women include:
$12.99 soft cover
Images of America
Gettysburg
By Dolly Nasby
Located about ninety minutes from three major metro areas – Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia – Gettysburg sits in the “fertile crescent”, an area brimming with agricultural possibilities. Founded in the 1700s by Games Gettys, the little town became headline material during the Civil War, although area residents never expected to be at the forefront of that controversy. Fate, however, had its way with the town, and Gettysburg found itself on the map permanently. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower retired here, Gettysburg became the place to visit for international tourists as well as Americans. Today, the National Park Service maintains the Gettysburg National Military Park, and the town caters to its visitors. Still imbued with small-country charm, Gettysburg beckons visitors from far and wide and treats them royally.
$21.99 soft cover
Then & Now
Gettysburg
By Dolly Nasby
Gettysburg, while host to the most devastating war in American history, is a quiet, thriving town nestled in agricultural Adams County. Although the battle put the town on the map, it has been the generations of residents who have shaped it. Frequented by many political and historic figures, the town has held on to its homespun felling. With a foreword written by R. Gregory Goodell, archivist for the Gettysburg National Military Park, Dolly Nasby, a retired schoolteacher and author of a number of Arcadia volumes, explores Gettysburg’s past through vintage and modern photographs.
Comparing our present to our past is how we understand our history. Arcadia’s Then & Now series makes such local comparisons available. Books in this series offer a special view of American life by placing historical images side by side with contemporary photographs.
$19.99 soft cover
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