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New York Times Book of the Civil War 1861-1865
650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles
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Edited by Harold Holzer
Edited by Craig Symonds
Foreword by President Bill Clinton
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The New York Times, established in 1851, was one of the few newspapers with correspondents on the front lines throughout the Civil War. The Complete Civil War collects every article written about the war from 1861 to 1865, plus select pieces before and after the war and is filled with the action, politics, and personal stories of this monumental event. From the first shot fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, and from the Battle of Antietam to the Battle of Atlanta, as well as articles on slavery, states rights, the role of women, and profiles of noted heroes such as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the era comes alive through these daily first-hand accounts.
More than 600 of the most crucial and interesting articles in the book? Typeset and designed for easy reading
Commentary by Editors and Civil War scholars Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds
More than 104,000 additional articles on the DVD-ROM? every article the Times published during the war.
A detailed chronology highlights articles and events of interest that can be found on the disk.
Strikingly designed and illustrated with hundreds of maps, historical photographs, and engravings, this book is a treasure for Civil War and history buffs everywhere.
“This is a fascinating and riveting look at the most important event in American history as seen through the eyes of an institution that was emerging as the most important newspaper in American history. Â In these pages, the Civil War seems new and fresh, unfolding day after anxious day, as the fate of the republic hangs in the balance.” –Â Ken Burns
“Serious historians and casual readers alike will find this extraordinary collection of 600 articles and editorials about the Civil War published in The New York Times before and during the war of great value and interest . . . enough to keep the most assiduous student busy for the next four years of the war’s sesquicentennial observations.” –Â James McPherson
“This fascinating work catapults readers back in time, allowing us to live through the Civil War as daily readers of The New York Times, worrying about the outcome of battles, wondering about our generals, debating what to do about slavery, hearing the words that Lincoln spoke, feeling passionate about our politics. Symonds and Holzer have found an ingenious new way to experience the most dramatic event in our nation’s history.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds have included not only every pertinent article from the pages of The Times, but enhanced and illuminated them with editorial commentary that adds context and perspective, making the articles more informative and useful here than they were in the original issues. Nowhere else can readers of today get such an understanding of how readers of 1861-1865 learned of and understood their war.” — William C Davis
The DVD runs on Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
- On Sale
- Oct 3, 2010
- Page Count
- 512 pages
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal
- ISBN-13
- 9781603763769
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