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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

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

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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James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

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Date of Publication: c2013.

Call Number: 973.68 B918

Responsibility: edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.

ISBN: 9780813044262 (alk. paper); 081304426X (alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Gainesville

Publisher: University Press of Florida,

Date of Publication: c2013.

Physical Description: x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.

Summary: An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B918

Crime and punishment on the Civil War homefront

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Author: Hampel, Robert L.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.106

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Responsibility: by Robert Hampel and Charles W. Ormsby, Jr.

Author: Hampel, Robert L.

Physical Description: 223-244.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.106 (1982); This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Punishment - United States; Crime - United States; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Additional Author: Ormsby, Charles W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.106

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