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The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era

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Author: McPherson, James M.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 973.73 M172

Alternate Title: Battle cry of freedom

Responsibility: James M. McPherson.

ISBN: 0195159012 (acidfree paper); 0195168283 (signed leather ed. : acid-free paper)

Author: McPherson, James M.

Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: xiv, 786 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, music ; 30 cm.

Notes: Rev. ed. of: Battle cry of freedom.; Includes index.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns - Pictorial works.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: McPherson, James M.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.73 M172

Emancipating slaves, enslaving free men : a history of the American Civil War

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Author: Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers.

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 973.7 H925

Responsibility: Jeffrey Rogers Hummel.

ISBN: 0812693116 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780812693119 (cloth : alk. paper); 0812693124 (paper : alk. paper); 9780812693126 (paper : alk. paper)

Author: Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers.

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Open Court,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: xiii, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue: America's Crisis -- 1. Slavery and States' Rights in the Early Republic -- 2. The Political Economy of Slavery and Secession -- 3. The Slave Power Seeks Foreign Conquest -- 4. Emergence of the Republican Party -- 5. The Confederate States of America -- 6. Mobilizing for Conflict -- 7. The Military Struggle -- 8. The War to Abolish Slavery? -- 9. Republican Neo-Mercantilism Versus Confederate War Socialism -- 10. Dissent and Disaffection - North and South -- 11. The Ravages of Total War -- 12. The Politics of Reconstruction -- 13. American Society Transformed -- Epilogue: America's Turning Point.

Summary: This book combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on the Civil War.

Subjects: States' rights (American politics); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Slavernij.; Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.; Reconstruction (1865-1877); United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Influence.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 H925

Atlas of the Civil War

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Author: Woodworth, Steven E.

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 973.7 W912 Oversize

Responsibility: by Steven Woodworth and Kenneth J. Winkle ; foreword by James M. McPherson.

ISBN: 0195221311

Author: Woodworth, Steven E.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 35 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Maps.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Statistics.

Additional Author: Winkle, Kenneth J.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 W912 Oversize

Don't forget it the Civil War military correspondence of Private John W. Bookman, 45th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry

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Date of Publication: 1997

Call Number: 973.781 B724

Publisher: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1997

Physical Description: 7, unp. 28 cm.

Subjects: Personal narratives; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Diaries

Additional Author: Lenox, Ronald S.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.781 B724

No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1993.

appeared in the Daily Evening Express which stated: TO MEN OF COLOR ! A Mass Meeting of the able-bodied men of color will be held on Wednesday at 8 o'clock, Fulton Hall, Lancaster City, to promote recruiting for United States Colored Troops For the War Frederick Douglas and other distinguished speakers

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Responsibility: by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: [20]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.95, no.1

Subjects: Confederate States of America. - Army - History.; United States. - Army - History; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 20-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95

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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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Responsibility: Richard Carwardine.

ISBN: 1400044561; 9781400044566

Author: Carwardine, Richard.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.

Contents: 1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.

Summary: A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.; Presidents - United States - Biography.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 L736c

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A Chinese soldier in the Civil War

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1921

. United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1921 Description: 52-55 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.25

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921

Physical Description: 52-55 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 3

Subjects: Woo, Hong Neok, - 1834-1919.; United States. - Army - History; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 3 (1921), p. 52-55Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25

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The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era

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Date of Publication: [2019]

Call Number: 973.68 B619

Responsibility: edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist.

ISBN: 9780807170816 (cloth : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Baton Rouge

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,

Date of Publication: [2019]

Physical Description: xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series: Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction : possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg -- The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski -- Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton -- "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker -- "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon -- Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers -- Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin -- "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith -- "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green -- A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.

Summary: "The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction"--

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Political and social views.; Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868 - Political and social views.; Legislators - United States - Biography.; Politicians - United States - Biography.; United States - History - 1815-1861.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 19th century.

Additional Author: Birkner, Michael J.,; Miller, Randall M.,; Quist, John W.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B619

Lancaster County Civil War sites revisited

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Author: Young, Ronald C.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 973.76 Y75

Responsibility: by Ronald C. Young.

Author: Young, Ronald C.

Place of Publication: Apollo, Pa

Publisher: Closson Press ,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: vii, 69 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Contents: Christiana Riot Site and Monument--The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge--Fulton Hall--Railroads, Stations and Yards--The Yard at Dillerville--Pennsylvania Railroad Station Lancaster City--Norris Locomotive Works--Caldwell House Hotel and Abraham Lincoln--Camp of Instruction-122nd Pa. Volunteer Infantry--General John Reynolds-Birthplace and Grave Site--President James Buchanan--Wheatland--Grave Site--Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church--Lancaster Soldiers and Sailors Monument--Millersville Civil War Monument.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History, military - 19th century.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 973.76 Y75

A house divided : sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865

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Author: Sewell, Richard H.

Date of Publication: c1988.

Call Number: 973.7 S512

Responsibility: Richard H. Sewell.

ISBN: 0801835313 (alk. paper); 9780801835315 (alk. paper); 0801835321 (pbk.); 9780801835322 (pbk.)

Author: Sewell, Richard H.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: c1988.

Physical Description: xii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: The American moment

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.

Contents: The American people at mid-century -- The legacy of the Mexican War -- A hell of a storm -- And the war came -- Call to arms -- The war at home -- The blue and the gray -- The destruction of slavery -- Looking ahead : wartime reconstruction -- Bibliographical essay.

Summary: What caused the Civil War? A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible societies. This book traces the growth of bitter sectional discord in the years after 1848, when the acquisition of new American territories rekindled old controversies over the expansion of slavery. A series of compromises forestalled the crisis of secession but increasingly divided the country along slavery's lines. - Publisher.

Subjects: Sectionalism (U.S.); United States - History - 1849-1877.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; American Civil War

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7 S512

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The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11628

Emancipating slaves, enslaving free men : a history of the American Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18456

Atlas of the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15200

Don't forget it the Civil War military correspondence of Private John W. Bookman, 45th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo316

No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo93

Documents

Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19216

Websites

A Chinese soldier in the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4003

Documents

The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22341

Lancaster County Civil War sites revisited

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15361

A house divided : sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18457