BLEEDING KANSAS
Covering the events and the people of the American Civil War, this volume describes and interprets the era of the Civil War, its events, and topics with viewpoints, definitions, report topics, chronologies, and statistics.
Fighting between pro- and antislavery factions began in the Kansas territory where it was the battleground for local militias and guerrilla fighters. Kansas historian Roy Bird explores the history of Kansas in the Civil War and describes the wars effects on the state and its residents.
This second edition of Historical Atlas of Kansas has been updated to reflect new and revised maps showing the important growth in population centers in all parts of the state. The lay of the land and its character and use, the travel routes, the location of population concentrations, and the gradual unfolding of economic and political development are all shown on the many maps in this book.
This biography of John Brown illustrates his joining the side of "free-staters" in the conflict in the Kansas Territory and fighting to have Kansas enter the Union as an anti-slavery state. History has shown that his actions and the reactions to them were among the most potent precursors of the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
This volume details the lives of significant players from the Civil War period. It offers profiles of soldiers and civilians, including Thomas Nast, Harriet Tubman, and Jeb Stuart.
Long recognized as a key study on the war, Civil War Kansas describes the political, military, social, and economic events of the state's first four years. This title offers a realistic presentation and analysis of the Kansas-Missouri border conflict, the operations of the Missouri guerrillas, and the Union and Confederate military campaigns.
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press, not to mention three sessions of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials were published about Bleeding Kansas in just four tumultuous years. This book offers a study of national media coverage and showing how it affected the course of national events.
The Quantrill legend is rooted in acts of savage violence throughout Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War. In the biography, William Clarke Quantrill, author Albert Castel traces Quantrill's rise to power, from Kansas border ruffian and Confederate Army captain to lawless leader of "the most formidable band of revolver fighters the West ever knew." During the Civil War, Quantrill and his men descended on Lawrence, Kansas, and carried out a frightful massacre of the civilian population.
This volume includes full and excerpted speeches, accounts, poems, memoirs, and novels reflecting a range of perpectives towards the Civil War, and includes background information on each document and the impact it had on the public.
This work's highly credentialed editors and contributors were able to draw on the vast and rich Civil War resources of the Library of Congress, including unpublished letters from soldiers and nurses, Union and Confederate maps, speeches by Frederick Douglass, photographs by Matthew Brady, and well over 50,000 published books and pamphlets.
The Civil War Archive presents the full story of the war between the states in documents direct from the minds, pens, and hearts of the men and women who experienced it. Hundreds of papers, letters and memoirs render history in its rawest form and depict the war's impact on every spectrum of American society.
In this brilliant biography, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national bestseller, David Herbert Donald, traces Charles Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. Sumner's fight to end slavery made him a hero in the North and stirred outrage in the South. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War presents a remarkably different view of our bloodiest war through an insightful reevaluation of the man who stood at its center.
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