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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
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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
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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
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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
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Atlas of the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15200
Author
Woodworth, Steven E.
Date of Publication
c2004.
Call Number
973.7 W912 Oversize
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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
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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
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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
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A Lancaster schoolboy views the Civil War : (diary of Immanuel C. Pehrson, 1862-1863. Collection of the Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College)

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Author
Pehrson, Immanuel C.
Date of Publication
1950
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Responsibility
reviewed by Elizabeth C. Kieffer.
Author
Pehrson, Immanuel C.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1950
Physical Description
[17]-37 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 2
Subjects
Pehrson, Immanuel - Diaries.
Diaries.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 2 (1950), p. 17-37Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54
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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
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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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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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Civil War - Information file

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Call Number
Information file - Civil War
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Notes
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Civil War
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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
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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
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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
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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
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