New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 671 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, section of b&w photos and maps. Detailed account of Union general William T. Sherman's march to the sea during the Civil War, told through the diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians... More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 281 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Introduces the reader to the military history of the Civil War. It places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing both technology and its significant impact, the... More
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1995. Third printing. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 179 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w and color illustrations and maps. "St. Louis on the eve of the Civil War was a highly volatile mixture of sectional divisions and ethnic tension. A pro-Confederate governor who... More
Boonville, MO: MissouriLife, 2007. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 138 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations throughout. This book explains the political atmosphere in Missouri prior to the Civil War and the war’s effects on Missourians throughout the first year of the tortuous struggle to determine the state’s allegiance..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 340 pgs, notes, index, b&w illustrations. The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century-not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and... More
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 263 pgs, index, sources, b&w historical photos. When Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, it was a thriving state. But the Civil War and Reconstruction left it reeling, impoverished, and so deeply divided that it never... More
Independence, MO: Two Trails Publishing, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 237 pgs, b&w historical photos. Detailed biography of General Thomas Ewing- his early years, his family, his military career and his actions during the war. And along the way, his merits and the mistakes are noted and explained... More
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Second printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 195 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. Originally published in 1907, this is the only account published by a Union guerrilla in the border region of the central Ozarks, where political and civil violence lasted from the Civil... More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 278 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Details the military concerns associated with peace enforcement in Kansas and the trans-Missouri West. Between 1854 and 1856, the Franklin Pierce administration called upon the United States Army to... More
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 305 pgs, index, bibliography. The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. That fiercely contested boundary... More
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. Paperback. 6 x 9, 127 pgs, b&w historical photos, references. On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the Civil War was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. En route to Camden Station, Union forces were confronted by angry Southern sympathizers, and at Pratt... More
New York: St Martin's Press, 2011. Book Club. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 295 pgs, index, notes, bibliography. Civil War history written from a culinary and gastronomical perspective, depicting the North's more effective food-production industry. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 197 pgs, index, notes, b&w illustrations. Black soldiers in the American Civil War were far more likely to die of disease than were white soldiers. Herein the author explores why this uneven mortality occurred and how... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 368 pgs, b&w historical photos. The story of Benjamin Henry Griersson and his family. Grierson was a Civil War hero who took an appointment as a colonel in command of the Tenth Cavalry, white officers and black... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. Third printing. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 230 pgs, b&w historical photos and maps. Well-researched account of the military campaigns against the Confederates and how they initiated the coming of age of the Western territories. More
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 123 pgs, b&w illustrations and maps. Looks at the war as it affected the state of Kentucky. More
Shreveport, LA: Parabellum Press, 2003. First, thus. Paperback. 6 x 9, 136 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, maps. A nice collection of essays which unravels the complexities of the Red River Campaign, this highly controversial, politically motivated and always fascinating operation. More
Nashville: J.S. Sanders & Co, 1998. First, thus. Paperback. Originally published in 1879. This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major theatres of the war, and provides a unique view of the Reconstruction period. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1979. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 32 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. This issue of The Atom is devoted to one time lab director, Harold Agnew, who served from 1970-1979, and his wife, upon his retirement. More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota School of Journalism, 1978. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 52 pgs, b&w photos. A collection of essays about the Mississippi River area of Minnesota. More
Baltimore, MD: Linden Press, 1972. Paperback. 8 x 8, 48 pgs, bibliography. A collection of writers and poets who've written for and about Coleman, the beloved Johns Hopkins professor. More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1964. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 8, 302 pgs. Originally published in 1912, a narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira rivers to the San Antonino... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1972. Reprint. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 363 pgs, b&w drawings. A friend of Charles Darwin and a social activist respected by John Stuart Mill, Alfred R. Wallace (1823-1913) was an outstanding nineteenth-century intellectual. Renowned in his time as the co-discoverer of natural selection, he was... More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 301 pgs, notes, index, b&w photos. Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad. It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of... More
Silver City, NM: Privately Published, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 80 pgs. The author's master's thesis originally written in 1967, gives an indepth study of New Jersey's maritime activities during the American Revolution. Well-researched. More