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  • Green and Blue

    Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865

    by Damian Shiels, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Finalist for the American Battlefield Trust Prize for HistoryDamian Shiels’s Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank-and-file soldiers drawn from across the Union’s armed forces. Using a vast and largely untapped collection of letters penned by Irish American combatants to their families during the war, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

    Edited by J. Michael Parrish, Ralph E. Molnar, Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    Drawn from a 2005 international symposium, these essays explore current tyrannosaurid current research and discoveries regarding Tyrannosaurus rex.The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry Eustace McCulloch

    Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General

    by David Paul Smith, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies after the Texas Revolution of 1836, defended settlers during the Great Comanche Raid of 1840, and helped to defeat Mexican forces that reoccupied San ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Alabamians in Blue

    Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State

    by Christopher M. Rein, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Alabamians in Blue offers an in-depth scholarly examination of Alabama’s black and white Union soldiers and their contributions to the eventual success of the Union army in the western theater. Christopher M. Rein contends that the state’s anti-Confederate residents tendered an important service to the North, primarily by collecting intelligence and protecting logistical infrastructure. He ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Fractured Freedoms

    Reconstructing Central Louisiana

    by T. Michael Parrish, David T. Ballantyne ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    David T. Ballantyne’s Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a case study, Ballantyne reveals what is, in part, a rural Reconstruction success story, emphasizing the resilience of Black politics and the persistence of significant divisions among white residents ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Conflict of Command

    George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War

    by George C. Rable, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Army under Fire

    The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era

    by T. Michael Parrish, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Winner of the Wiley-Silver PrizeCecily N. Zander’s The Army under Fire is a pathbreaking study focusing on the fierce political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the Civil War era. It examines how prominent political figures interacted with the professional army and how those same leaders misunderstood the value of regular soldiers fighting to reunify the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Richard Taylor

    Soldier Prince of Dixie

    by T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Using widely scattered and previously unknown primary sources, Parrish’s biography of Confederate general Richard Taylor presents him as one of the Civil War’s most brilliant generals, eliciting strong performances from his troops in the face of manifold obstacles in three theaters of action. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Howling Storm

    Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War

    by Kenneth W. Noe, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Finalist for the Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book AwardTraditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be understood as a war between the North, the South, and the weather. In The Howling Storm, Noe retells the history of the conflagration with a focus on the ways in which ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend

    Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief

    by Kenneth W. Noe, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Kenneth W. Noe’s Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself, who early in the war concluded that he possessed a keen strategic and tactical mind. Noe explores the genesis of this powerful idea and asks why so many ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fabric of Civil War Society

    Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859–1939

    by Shae Smith Cox, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the material culture of America’s bloodiest conflict, offering a deeper understanding of the war and its commemoration.Cox’s analysis traces the influence of sewn materials throughout the Civil War and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Unreconstructed

    Slavery and Emancipation on Louisiana's Red River, 1820–1880

    by Carin Peller-Semmens, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Carin Peller-Semmens’s Unreconstructed grapples with the longstanding, systemic effects of white supremacist brutality in northwest Louisiana, highlighting the constancy of racial subjugation in one of the most violent areas of the South. Tracing the commitment of the region’s white slaveholders to racial violence from antebellum enslavement through to Reconstruction, Peller-Semmens unearths the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD