This compelling narrative offers a firsthand account of a couple's remarkable flight from slavery in the antebellum South. William and Ellen Craft devised a daring plan in which the light-skinned wife disguised herself as a man and the husband posed as her servant. This brief memoir recounts their journey northward in 1848, when they made their way to Philadelphia and later settled in Boston, where they were active in abolitionist circles. Originally...

"Hospital Sketches" by Louisa May Alcott stands as a poignant testament to the human spirit amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. This slim yet powerful volume encapsulates Alcott's firsthand experiences as a nurse, weaving together a collection of vivid narratives that offer an unfiltered glimpse into the stark realities of wartime hospitals and the resilient souls who inhabited them. In this autobiographical work, Alcott paints a vivid...

Includes Walt Whitman's celebrated Civil War poems. "Drum-Taps" is a sequence of poems about the Civil War.

Walter Whitman Jr. (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855

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Carefully chosen and annnotated by a distinguished authority on the Confederacy, these selections paint a broad and moving picture of the attitudes, emotiions, and ideas that motivated and sustained the South during the War.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred...

Welcome to this novelization of "Our American Cousin," a 19th-century play by Tom Taylor that holds a unique place in both theatrical history and American culture. This book aims to bring the story to life for a modern audience, making it accessible and engaging for readers of all ages, particularly students who may be encountering this work for the first time. "Our American Cousin" premiered in 1858 and quickly became a staple of the theatrical world,...

“The War After the War” is a non-fiction book by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, published in 1919, which discusses the challenges faced by the United States after World War I. The book covers various topics related to the aftermath of the war, including politics, social issues, the economy, and the military. It also includes interviews with prominent figures from that time, such as President Woodrow Wilson, General John Pershing, and Herbert Hoover....

“My Bondage and My Freedom”, by Frederick Douglass. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events • Footnotes and endnotes • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired...

Perhaps the most powerful and influential black American of his time, Frederick Douglass, embodied the tumultuous social changes that transformed the United States during the nineteenth century. In a career of unprecedented breadth, Douglass rose from the oppression of his slave's birth to fame as an abolitionist

Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...