History comes alive in this illustrious work which follows the graduates of one of the most celebrated classes at West Point--men who would become prominent officers in the Civil War, fighting enemies who were once class brothers and comrades-in-arms. Photos.
John C. Waugh takes the Pryors--Roger (b. 1828) and Sara (b. 1830)--and follows their lives through the course of Virginia history through the Civil War and into the 20th century.
A history of the 1864 presidential election, in which Abraham Lincoln and his Republicans were challenged by General George McClellan, whom the Democrats put forward as an advocate of appeasement with the Confederacy. Waugh, a former reporter for the "Christian Science Monitor", maintains that Lincoln was actually in a precarious position ...
How did Abraham Lincoln, long held as a paragon of presidential bravery and principled politics, find his way to the White House? How did he become this one man great enough to risk the fate of the nation on the well-worn but cast-off notion that all men are created equal? Here award-winning historian John C. Waugh takes us on Lincoln's road to ...
Years before the Civil War began, another dark conflict threatened to shatter the Union. It was December 1849. The U.S.-Mexican War had just ended, doubling the size of the country. A grave problem emerged: whether slavery should be admitted into the new territories that were to be carved out of the vast new domain resulting from the war. On the ...
The Civil War was a unique watershed, not only in American history but world history. Since the last gun was fired before Appomattox, it has fascinated and mesmerized us, as vivid in our imaginations as it was real in the lives of those who fought it. There are many compelling reasons to study that epochal event in our past. Not only is it ...
For the last decade of his life, Evelyn Waugh experienced the changes being made to the Church's liturgy to be nothing short of "a bitter trial". In Cardinal Heenan he found a sympathetic pastor and a kindred spirit. This volume makes available the previously unpublished correspondence between these prominent Catholics, revealing in both an ...
For nearly half a century, Grady McWhiney has stood in the foremost ranks of Civil War historians, receiving numerous honors and helping prepare a new generation of historians to carry on the task of understanding and interpreting the Civil War. Here, McWhiney presents a concise narrative that, says fellow historian John C. Waugh, "is ...
- Written in easy-to-understand language and uses consistently familiar vocabulary to encourage reluctant readers. - Fact boxes and sidebars highlight key information. - Includes glossary, index, and resources list National Social Studies Standards, Grades 5-8 - Time, Continuity, and Change: II - Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, ...
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