War, Terrible War, 1860-1865
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780195127737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780195127737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780195152593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
Author: Edward K. Spann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1461714168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gotham at War is an accessible, entertaining account of America's biggest and most powerful urban center during the Civil War. New York City mobilized an enthusiastic but poorly trained military force during the first month of the war that helped protect Washington, D.C., from Confederate capture. Its strong financial support for the national government may well have saved the Union. New York served as a center for manpower, military supplies, and shipbuilding. And medically, New York became a center for efforts to provide for sick and wounded soldiers. Yet, despite being a major Northern city, New York also had strong sympathy for the South. Parts of the city were strongly racist, hostile to the abolition of slavery and to any real freedom for black Americans. The hostility of many New Yorkers to the military draft culminated in one of the greatest of all urban upheavals, the draft riots of July 1863. Edward K. Spann brings his experience as an urban historian to provide insights on both the varied ways in which the war affected the city and the ways in which the city's people and industry influenced the divided nation. This is the first book to assess the city's contributions to the Civil War. Gotham at War examines the different sides of the city as some fought to sustain the Union while others opposed the war effort and sided with the South. This unique book will entertain all readers interested in the Civil War and New York City. About the Author Edward K. Spann is professor emeritus of history at Indiana State University. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century history and urban history. Spann has authored a number of books, including The New Metropolis: New York City 1840-1857 and Ideals and Politics: New York Intellectuals and Liberal Democracy, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780329178772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher:
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780195159974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joy Hakim
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Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781417749003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hakim's ten-volume history of the United States makes American history as exciting as an adventure story and as stimulating as a suspense yarn. She tells stories with all the fascinating sides of factual history. The dates and events, characters and complexities, heroes, heroines and villains are woven into the great American history. B&W illustrations throughout, index and timelines.
Author: Wesley Windsor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1422293149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries—and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events. The Civil War brought an end to the terrible practice of slavery—but it also left deep wounds across the United States. As you learn more about this war's conflicts, you will gain a better understanding of what makes America the nation it is today.
Author: Edward K. Spann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780842050579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865 is a concise, highly readable account of New York City during the greatest internal crisis in American history. A growing metropolis that was by far America's biggest and most powerful city, New York played a major role in the Civil War, mobilizing an enthusiastic though poorly trained military force during the first month of the war that helped protect Washington, D.C., from Confederate capture. Urban historian Edward K. Spann provides insights on both the varied ways in which the war affected the city and the ways in which the city's people and industry influenced the divided nation. Gotham at War includes observations regarding political, racial, ethnic, and economic aspects of this wartime society and shows how New York served as a center for manpower, military supplies, and shipbuilding, and for assisting sick and wounded soldiers. The efforts of its great Republican newspapers, local leaders such as William E. Dodge and Mayor George Opdyke, women, African-Americans, New Englanders, and the Irish and Germans of New York are all explored. The most southern of the northern cities, New York became a center for many citizens who opposed th