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What was it like to be a Jew in Lincoln's armies?
The Union army was as diverse as the embattled nation it sought to preserve, a unique mixture of ethnicities, religions, and identities. Almost one Union soldier in four was born abroad, and natives and newcomers fought side-by-side, sometimes uneasily. Yet though scholars have parsed the trials and triumphs of Irish, Germans, African Americans, and others in the Union ranks, they have remained largely silent on the everyday experiences of the largest non-Christian minority to have served.
In ways visible and invisible to their fellow recruits and conscripts, the experience of Jews was distinct from that of other soldiers who served in Lincoln's armies. Adam D. Mendelsohn draws for the first time upon the vast database of verified listings of Jewish soldiers serving in the Civil War collected by The Shapell Roster, as well as letters, diaries, and newspapers, to examine the collective experience of Jewish soldiers and to recover their voices and stories. The volume examines when and why they decided to enlist, explores their encounters with fellow soldiers, and describes their efforts to create community within the ranks. This monumental undertaking rewrites much of what we think we know about Jewish soldiers during the Civil War.
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- De Chris en 09-20-14
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Searching for Black Confederates
- The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth
- De: Kevin M. Levin
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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modern political commentary
- De Rob Warren en 11-05-19
De: Kevin M. Levin
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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
- De: Albert Louis Zambone
- Narrado por: Tom Taverna
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- De Rob K en 04-08-20
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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold
- An American Life
- De: Joyce Lee Malcolm
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause?
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3 out of 5 stars
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good story....questionable performance
- De Amazon Customer en 07-12-19
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George Washington
- The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
- De: David O. Stewart
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-20s, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-40s, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of the fledgling Continental Army. By his mid-50s, he was unanimously elected the nation's first president. How did Washington emerge from the wilderness to become the central founder of the United States of America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The GOAT!
- De Michael N. en 03-26-24
De: David O. Stewart
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- De: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points. Now, S.C. Gwynne’s Hymns of the Republic addresses the time Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. He breathes new life into the epic battle between Lee and Grant; the advent of 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army; Sherman’s March to the Sea; the rise of Clara Barton; and much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Questionable
- De Stafford Lewis en 05-16-20
De: S. C. Gwynne
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General Lee's Army
- From Victory to Collapse
- De: Joseph T. Glatthaar
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 25 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad history, worse statistic
- De Lorin Radtke en 08-08-08
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The New York Times: Disunion
- Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
- De: Ted Widmer - editor
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck, Mark Boyett, Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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A major new collection of modern commentary - from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs - on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion online journal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent audiobook! Love this format!
- De BVerité en 03-17-15
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- De Buretto en 10-21-21
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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After the Civil War
- The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
- De: James Robertson
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators - the times called for bold moves, and this resilient generation would not disappoint.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just a southern lost cause book
- De Russell Hansen en 03-24-21
De: James Robertson
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- De: John Matteson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Intertwining!
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-02-21
De: John Matteson
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This Republic of Suffering
- Death and the American Civil War
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives - equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a unique civil war perspective
- De D. Littman en 04-21-08
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The American Miracle
- Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic
- De: Michael Medved
- Narrado por: Michael Medved
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhelming and disaster looks imminent, fate intervenes to provide deliverance and progress. Historians may categorize these incidents as happy accidents, callous crimes, or the products of brilliant leadership, but the most notable leaders of the past 400 years have identified this good fortune as something else - a reflection of divine providence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Book
- De Larry en 12-01-16
De: Michael Medved
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Conquered
- Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
- De: Larry J. Daniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the Confederate heartland as a matter of failed leadership.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alas, alas
- De Charles en 08-07-20
De: Larry J. Daniel
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America Aflame
- How the Civil War Created a Nation
- De: David Goldfield
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 27 h y 45 m
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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have interpreted the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great and indepth
- De Kindle Customer en 06-02-14
De: David Goldfield
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The Drillmaster of Valley Forge
- The Baron De Steuben and the Making of the American Army
- De: Paul Lockhart
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history good naration
- De Matthew en 11-18-08
De: Paul Lockhart
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First rate history
- De John S. Pachter en 06-10-24