Product Description: Commanders who serve on the losing side of a battle, campaign, or war are often harshly viewed by posterity. Labeled as mere "losers," they go unrecognized for their very real abilities and achievements in other engagements. The writers in this volume challenge such simplistic notions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The hard-fought and dramatic battles of Chickamauga (September 19–20, 1863) and Chattanooga (November 23–25, 1863) changed the course of the Civil War. These battles sounded the death knell of the Confederacy and put Ulysses S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The military history of the Civil War has tended to focus on such issues as tactics, courage under fire, and which leader was capable of the bold stroke (Lee) and which one wasn’t (McClellan). Overlooked in these important issues is the matter of command itself: mastery of the resources required for successful military action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: William Winters was unlike most of the young soldiers who answered the Union’s appeal for men in 1861 and 1862. He was different from many of his comrades in age and point of view, and his war service was also out of the ordinary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Included in this book are six exams which accurately depict the scope and content of the actual AP examination for United States History from the first North American colonies to the present. Also included is an extensive history review-over 200 pages-which contains descriptive analyses of major topics in United States history for the essay questions, as well as a wealth of factual information found on the exam...read more

Product Description: The single most important volume for anyone interested in the Civil War to own and consult. (From the foreword by James M. McPherson) The first guide to Civil War literature to appear in nearly 30 years, this book provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and informative survey and analysis of the vast body of Civil War literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In September 1863, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans drives into Georgia flanking Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg out of Chattanooga. Bragg, heavily reinforced, turns on Rosecrans and nearly traps him before he can fall back. The two great armies finally meet at Chickamauga...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume examine major Civil War generals in the context of their leadership at a specific battle or campaign. Topics include Joseph E. Johnston in 1861-62, James Longstreet and Chattanooga, Edwin Sumner and Antietam, George E...read more

Product Description: Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals, won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award and was a main selection of the History Book Club. In that book he showed how the failures of Davis and his military leaders in the west paved the way for Confederate defeat...read more

Product Description: Reviews the European and Pacific Theaters of World War II, the Cold War and containment, the " politics of affluence," the Liberal revival, Martin Luther King Jr. And civil rights, Vietnam, the Nixon reaction, Watergate, Ford and Carter, the conservative revolution including Reagan and Bush, the collapse of European Communism, the Persian Gulf Crisis, and the breakup of the Soviet Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Discusses the election of Woodrow Wilson, the New Freedom, World War I, peacemaking and domestic problems, economic advances and social tensions, the Great Depression, the first and second New Deals, and New Deal diplomacy.

Argues that poor leadership in the western campaigns led to the Confederacy's defeat

Product Description: A NEWER EDITION OF THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE.  SEE ISBN:  978-0-7386-0625-5   Get the AP college credits you've worked so hard for... Our savvy test experts show you the way to master the test and score higher. This new and fully expanded edition includes a comprehensive review course of all the topics covered on the exam: the Colonial Period, the American Revolution, the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reviews the European age of exploration, the beginnings of colonization, the colonial world, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, the Intolerable Acts, the War for Independ ence, the creation of new governments, and the United States Constitution...read more

Product Description: Discusses westward expansion, Texas, the Mexican War, the Compromise of 1850, sectional conflict, the Dred Scott Case, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.