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Staat und politische Bildung
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99Im Jahre 2012 feierte die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung ihr 60-jähriges Bestehen. Sie tritt ein für die Förderung des Bewusstseins für Demokratie und politische Partizipation. 1952 unter dem Namen Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst gegründet, unterstand sie dem Bundesministerium des Innern... more...
Abe Lincoln's Hat
Random House Children's Books 2013; US$ 3.99Illus. in full color. Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, started out in life as an absent-minded frontier lawyer. How did he nudge his memory? He stuck letters, court notes, contracts, and even his checkbook in his trademark top hat. When he took off his hat, it was all there! more...
The Ideology of Slavery
LSU Press 1981; US$ 22.95In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a new phase of proslavery militancy; William Harper and James Henry Hammond, representatives of the... more...
Memoirs of My Life and Times
Cooper Square Press 2001; US$ 26.99Civil War general Fremont recounts his early years, when he explored the American West from 1828 to 1846 with Kit Carson. more...
Halleck
LSU Press 1996; US$ 18.95?Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing.? Lincoln?s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles?s harsh words constitute the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck:... more...
Lee In the Shadow of Washington
LSU Press 2001; US$ 19.95While most scholars agree that Robert E. Lee?s loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause, Richard McCaslin goes further to demonstrate that Lee?s true call to action was the legacy of the American Revolution viewed through his reverence for George Washington. Like Washington, Lee wore a colonel?s uniform.... more...
More Generals in Gray
LSU Press 2006; US$ 22.95In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals?men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining... more...
The Petticoat Affair
LSU Press 2000; US$ 20.95In The Petticoat Affair, prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek offers the first in?depth investigation of the earliest?and perhaps greatest?political sex scandal in American history. During Andrew Jackson?s first term in office, Margaret Eaton, the wife of Secretary of State John Henry Eaton, was branded a ?loose woman? for her unconventional public... more...
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5?6, 1864
LSU Press 2004; US$ 24.95Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of... more...
To the North Anna River
LSU Press 2005; US$ 24.95With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 through 25, a phase oddly ignored by historians, was critical in the clash between the Army of the Potomac and the Army... more...









