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Civil War A History in Documents

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ISBN-10: 0195115589

ISBN-13: 9780195115581

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rachel Filene Seidman

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The Civil War was not only a stunning event in military history; it defined the American people by forcing them to grapple with the founding principles of the nation. Rachel Seidman brings together an array of primary sources from the antebellum period, the war, and Reconstruction to provide a well-rounded account of this pivotal era. Political debates and military developments may occupy the historical foreground, but it is the letters, diary entries, memoirs, and testimony of blacks, Native Americans, women, children, farmers, and foot soldiers in the richly textured background that bring the Civil War to life. Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's abolitionist speeches and writings contrast with…    
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Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 9.80" wide x 7.91" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English