Product Description: During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy...read more

Workaholic exec Drew Connelly returned from his business trip--dog tired, happy to see his daughter and...engaged? Before he could question how, his "fiancée" moved in for their "trial marriage"!What kind of woman could his six-year-old daughter--and her octogenarian grandma--have found on the Internet? Kristina Simmons seemed...enchanting. The virgin bride-to-be was looking for a fresh start--any start, actually. But marriage was not on Drew's To Do list. He'd let Kristina down gently, make her see he was not husband material. But then he made a tactical error: he kissed her....

A nail-biting account of the battle of Fredericksburg reveals how this 1862 battle bolstered Southern hopes of victory while sending shock waves through the Union. (Military History)

Product Description: This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony...read more

Product Description: Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship...read more

Product Description: This title tells the story of Southern refugees during the American Civil War. It includes tales of people scrambling for trains or making river crossings. It examines the psychological effect of the war on the homeless, the humour they found in their difficulties and legislation concerning them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Rable, George C.

Product Description: Enhanced by excerpts from primary documents as well as numerous illustrations, this collection of essays by some of the country’s most prominent Civil War historians intends to move women to the center stage of Civil War history. Topics range from the experiences of female slave contrabandists, to the lives of rural refugee women, to the effects of the postwar era on African-American women, to the Civil War’s legacy in women’s suffrage movements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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