{"id":3693,"date":"2011-01-24T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:19:59","slug":"u-s-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/u-s-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 24, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>United States Civil War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In the News: <\/em>2011 is the 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the United States Civil War. The FAU Libraries has a plethora of resources devoted to this subject, but here are just a few of our newly acquired titles &#8211; and some of our not-so-new DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>Wait!\u00a0 Before you review the list, don\u2019t forget about a few electronic resources we have devoted exclusively to the Civil War:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.fau.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/cwld.alexanderstreet.com\">American Civil War: Letters and Diaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.fau.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/cwdb.alexanderstreet.com\">American Civil War Research Database<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.fau.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/linc.alexanderstreet.com\">Illustrated Civil War Newspaper and Magazines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.fau.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/cpho.alexanderstreet.com\">Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"height: 192px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"456\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833675\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3695\" title=\"Bitterly Divided: The South\u2019s Inner Civil War\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001847847\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001847847\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3696\" title=\"Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/harrold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818960\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3697\" title=\"Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mccurry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>At Death\u2019s Door: A Yankee Soldier\u2019s Story of Survival in Confederate Captivity<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Jasper Newton Hall. Blue Acorn Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833889\">E615 .H355 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Steven J. Ramold. Northern Illinois University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001804864\">E491 .R36 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Michael A. Halleran. University of Alabama Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818785\">HS529 .H357 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Birth of a Nation <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)<br \/>\nDirected by D. W. Griffith. Kino, 2002<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001273878\">PN1997 .B55 2002<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center Reserve)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bitterly Divided: The South\u2019s Inner Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By David Williams. New Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833675\">F214 .W564 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Stanley Harrold. University of North Carolina Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001847847\">E449 .H2985 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Williamjames Hull Hoffer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818694\">E434.8 .H64 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Civil War<\/strong> <\/em>(Online video)<br \/>\nDirected by Ken Burns. PBS, 1989<br \/>\nCall Number: Available online via <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001843186\"><em>American History in Video<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cold Mountain <\/strong><\/em>(DVD)<br \/>\nDirected by Anthony Minghella. Miramax, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001111550\">PN1997.2 .C643 2004<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Stephanie McCurry. Harvard University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818960\">E487 .M18 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do They Miss Me at Home?: The Civil War Letters of William McKnight, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Edited by Donald C. Maness and H. Jason Combs. Ohio University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001816377\">E525.6 7<sup>th<\/sup> .M35 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The First Vermont Cavalry in the Civil War: A History<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Joseph D. Collea, Jr. McFarland &amp; Co., 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818864\">E533.6 1<sup>st<\/sup> .C655 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By John Gary Maxwell. Arthur H. Clark Co.\/U of Oklahoma Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818678\">F826 .M28 M396 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Glory <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)<br \/>\nDirected by Edward Zwick. TriStar, 2000 (released 1989)<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA000952075\">PN1997. G.56 2000<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Donald Stoker. Oxford University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833484\">E470 .S87 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln\u2019s War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By William Marvel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001833742\">E471 .M366 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Victoria E. Bynum. University of North Carolina Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818764\">F215 .B956 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Manifest Destinies: America\u2019s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Steven E. Woodworth. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001848004\">E179.5 .W65 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><em><strong> Complete Civil War, 1861-1865<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Edited by Harold Holzer &amp; Craig L. Symonds. Black Dog &amp; Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001847908\">E464 .N49 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55<sup>th<\/sup> Massachusetts<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Edited by Richard M. Reid. University of Massachusetts Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001819221\">E513.5 .55<sup>th<\/sup> .W55 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Shiloh: The War is Civil No More<\/strong> <\/em>(DVD)<br \/>\nDirected by Shane Seley &amp; Bret Bolton. Wide Awake Films, 2006<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001240924\">E473.54 .S555 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Small But Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee\u2019s Army of Northern Virginia<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Zack C. Waters and James C. Edmonds. University of Alabama Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001816370\">E558.4 .W38 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations of the American Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Kevin Dougherty. Casemate, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001819131\">E591 .D66 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor\u2019s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Felice Flanery Lewis. University of Alabama Press ,2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001818880\">E405.1 .L49 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Union Combined Operations in the Civil War<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Edited by Craig L. Symonds. Fordham University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001819073\">E491 .U4817 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Cynthia Wachtell. Louisiana University Press, 2010<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA001841780\">PS169 .W27 W33 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24, 2011 United States Civil War In the News: 2011 is the 150th anniversary of the United States Civil War. The FAU Libraries has a plethora of resources devoted to this subject, but here are just a few of our newly acquired titles &#8211; and some of our not-so-new DVDs. 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