Sökt på: Böcker av T. Michael Parrish
totalt 22 träffar
The Army under Fire
Cecily 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 …
Brothers in Gray
Residents of antebellum northwest Louisiana held strong pro-Union sentiments, and the Pierson family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, were no exception, opposing secession in 1861. …
Richard Taylor
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 …
Garden of Ruins
J. Matthew Ward's Garden of Ruins serves as an insightful social and military history of Civil War–era Louisiana. Partially occupied by Union forces starting in the spring of 1862, …
The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race, slavery, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War, they have less frequently recognized the conflict's …
The Howling Storm
Finalist for the Lincoln Prize!Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth W. Noe suggests it should instead be …
Conflict of Command
The 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, …
Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
On the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, Ship’s Cook Third Class Doris “Dorie” Miller …
A Wonderful Career in Crime
Charles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched …
Between Extremes
Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln's administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and …