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  | | Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!(Updated) (Civil War America) by George C. Rable Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2012 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7269-7, ISBN: 0-8078-7269-5 "During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, -Give them Fredericksburg!- Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers. Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. Confederate general Robert E. Lee suffered roug ..." |
 | | God's Almost Chosen Peoples(1st Edition) A Religious History of the American Civil War (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by George C. Rable Hardcover, 586 Pages, Published 2010 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3426-8, ISBN: 0-8078-3426-2 "Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war.Examinin ..." |
 | | Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by Dr George C. Rable Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6058-9, ISBN: 0-8071-6058-X "During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy.Drawing from speeches, cartoons, editorials, letters, ..." |
 | | But There Was No Peace The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction by Dr George C. Rable Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3011-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3011-6 "This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw th ..." |
 | | The Confederate Republic A Revolution against Politics (Civil War America) by George C. Rable Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 1994 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2144-2, ISBN: 0-8078-2144-6 "Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of part ..." |
 | | CIVIL WARS(Reprint) WOMEN AND THE CRISIS OF SOUTHERN NATIONALISM (Women in American History) by George C. Rable Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06212-4, ISBN: 0-252-06212-4 "A yawning grave — piles of red earth thrown on one side. ... In what Susan Middleton considered a profane mockery of the Sabbath, young people met each Sunday evening to "sing psalms until the clock ... If dances seemed inappropriate , sumptuous dinner parties appeared even more out of place when so many families went hungry. ... consisting of ducks, olives, supreme de volatile, chickens in jelly, oysters, lettuce salad, chocolate j ..." |
 | | A Southern Woman's Story by Phoebe Yates Pember, George C. Rable Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-451-0, ISBN: 1-57003-451-6 "Phoebe Yates Pember's A Southern Woman's Story is the inaugural volume in the University of South Carolina Press's new paperback series, American Civil War Classics. First published in 1879, the book chronicles Phoebe Pember's experiences as matron of the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital from November 1862 until the fall of Richmond in April 1865. Long an important source in Confederate history, A Southern Woman's Story is also a valuabl ..." |
 | | The Historian behind the History(2nd Edition) Conversations with Southern Historians by Megan L. Bever, Scott A. Suarez, Dan T. Carter, Laura F. Edwards, William Freehling, Theodore Rosengarten, Professor Pete Daniel, Gary W. Gallagher, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, James M. Mcpherson, J. Mills Thornton, George C. Rable Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2014 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1851-2, ISBN: 0-8173-1851-8 "The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern historians and mentors illuminate the state of historiography, their experiences in the profession, and their thoughts about graduate educat ..." |
 | | Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!(1st Edition) by George C. Rable Hardcover, 688 Pages, Published 2002 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2673-7, ISBN: 0-8078-2673-1 "During the battle of Gettysburg, as Union troops along Cemetery Ridge rebuffed Pickett's Charge, they were heard to shout, -Give them Fredericksburg!- Their cries reverberated from a clash that, although fought some six months earlier, clearly loomed large in the minds of Civil War soldiers. Fought on December 13, 1862, the battle of Fredericksburg ended in a stunning defeat for the Union. Confederate general Robert E. Lee suffered roug ..." |
 | | Refugee Life in the Confederacy by Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, George Rable Paperback, 327 Pages, Published 2001 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2688-2, ISBN: 0-8071-2688-8 "Paperback. Edition. by. George. C. Rable. Mary Elizabeth Massey's Refugee Life in the Confederacy is a solid piece of ... Whatever its analytical shortcomings, it is the sort of book that students of the Civil War have often found helpful on a ... she begins with the first exodus from the Washington area and concludes with the return of refugees at war's end. ... was an early contribution to the revival of interest in southern wome ..." |
 | | Civil Wars(1st Edition) Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Women in American History) by George C. Rable Hardcover, 391 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01597-7, ISBN: 0-252-01597-5 |
 | | Conflict of Command George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by George C. Rable Hardcover, Published 2023 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7977-2, ISBN: 0-8071-7977-9 "In Conflict of Command, acclaimed Civil War historian George C. Rable rethinks that stance, providing a new understanding of the interaction between the president and his leading wartime general by reinterpreting the political aspects of ..." |
 | | News from Fredricksburg (Frank L. Klement Lectures) by George C. Rable Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2000 by Marquette Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-333-8, ISBN: 0-87462-333-2 "Book by Rable, George C." |
 | | The Collapse of the Confederacy(1st Edition) (Key Issues of the Civil War Era) by Mark Grimsley, Steven Woodworth, George C. Rable, Jean Berlin, Brooks D. Simpson Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2170-3, ISBN: 0-8032-2170-3 "Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the war's final months in a fashion that smacks strongly of denouement: the great, tragic conflict rolls on to its now-certain end. Certain, tha ..." |
 | | But There Was No Peace The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction by George C. Rable Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1984 by Univ Of Georgia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-0703-9, ISBN: 0-8203-0703-3 "Rable, George C." |
 | | God's Almost Chosen Peoples(1st Edition) A Religious History of the American Civil War (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Dr George C. Rable Paperback, 586 Pages, Published 2015 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2182-1, ISBN: 1-4696-2182-7 |
 | | Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South by George C. Rable 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6060-2, ISBN: 0-8071-6060-1 "Republican, October 19, 1861; New Orleans Daily Picayune, June 22, 1861; Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, ed. William J. Cooper Jr. (New York: ... Oxford University Press, 1994), 72; Susan Leigh Blackford, compiler, Memoirs of Life In and Out of the Army in Virginia during the War Between the States, 2 vols. (Lynchburg, Va. ... Daily Chronicle and Sentinel, April 20, 1861; Joshua K. Callaway, The Civil War ..." |
 | | UNC Press e-Book Shorts Ser. The Battle of Fredericksburg : A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable 332 Pages, Published 2012 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3622-4, ISBN: 0-8078-3622-2 "For in-depth analysis, contextualization, and perspective, we invite readers to consider the original publications from which these works are drawn." |
 | | Civil War America The Confederate Republic : A Revolution Against Politics by George C. Rable 440 Pages, Published 1994 by Univ Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6396-1, ISBN: 0-8078-6396-3 "... Tyler), Holden portrayed himself as the only true defender of civil liberties. In April, he resumed publication of the Standard with a clarion call for a state convention. But even a sympathetic observer admitted that Holden lacked Vance's “spirit, ..." |
 | | The Enigmatic South Toward Civil War and Its Legacies (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award) by John M. Sacher, Eric H. Walther, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Hyde, George Rable, Professor Paul F. Paskoff, Editor Christopher Childers, James M. Mcpherson, Gaines M. Foster, Professor Samuel C. Hyde Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5694-0, ISBN: 0-8071-5694-9 "The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, religion, and education contributed to s ..." |
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