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The photographic history of the Civil war (Volume IX) Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray

The photographic history of the Civil war (Volume IX) Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray

Trevelyan Miller, Francis

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral PoetryPhotographers

ISBN10: 9353800307
ISBN13: 9789353800307
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.81
Height: 0.74 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Battlefields fade. Voices remain. These pages hold living voices. In print, photograph, and speech, history breathes. The Photographic History of the Civil War (Volume IX), Poetry and Eloquence of Blue and Gray, gathers the war's human records: images that stop you and words that burn with conviction. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller, this illustrated civil war history moves beyond campaigns into the inner life of the 1861-1865 United States. As a civil war photo book, it places period photography beside an american war poetry anthology and a civil war speeches collection, bringing together union and confederate poetry with the blue and gray rhetoric that shaped homes, regiments, and public square. Expect the sweep of nineteenth century America in miniature: elegies, patriotic verse, appeals to conscience, and the hard clarity of battlefield testimony, framed by images associated with Mathew Brady photographs and the era's defining faces. Historically, the volume stands as a civil war research reference: a curated window into how Americans argued, mourned, and imagined their nation in real time, including the influence of Abraham Lincoln oratory on public feeling. Casual readers will find drama and poignancy; collectors of Americana will value its place in one of the landmark documentary series of the period. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and an American history classroom resource worth returning to. Read it, revisit it, cite it often, too.

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