Big Read 2011 - Voices of Conflict: The American Civil War
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Confederate Girlhoods: A Women's History of Early Springfield, Missouri
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Craig A. Meyer Details
One of Springfield's founding families, the Campbells, were prodigious writers whose memoirs, correspondence and fiction portray four generations of pioneer women. Focusing on writings from 1855 to 1905, Confederate Girlhoods presents these women's view of Indians and early settling; of slavery and Southern patriotism; of war and its social, political, economic aftermath; of the railroad and westward migration; of an Ozarks community's early efforts at conservation and civic commemoration.
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature
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Randall Fuller Details
Explores the profound impact of the war on writers including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson and Frederick Douglass. Calling into question every prior presumption and ideal, the war forever changed America's early idealism -- and consequently its literature into something far more ambivalent and raw. Sketching an absorbing group portrait of the period's most important writers, From Battlefields Rising flashes with forgotten historical details and elegant new ideas. It alters previous perceptions about the evolution of American literature and how Americans have understood and expressed their common history.
Killer Angels
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Jeff Shaara Details
It's July 1863 and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robert E. Lee has made this daring and massive move with seventy thousand men in a determined effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac and mortally wound it. Opposing them is an unknown factor: General George Meade, who has taken command of the Army only two days before what will be perhaps the crucial battle of the Civil War. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fight for two conflicting dreams.
The River Between Us
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Richard Peck Details
Peck's spare writing sets an eloquent stage for this powerful mystery. When 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt's family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to live in a small, southern Illinois town, the Pruitt's family's lives are changed forever. Reviewers describe Peck's writing as "masterful," as he relates "the female Civil War experience, the subtle and not-too-subtle ways the country was changing, and the split in loyalty that separated towns and even families."
Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
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William G. Piston Details
On Saturday morning, August 10, 1861, soldiers from Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and United States Regulars clashed near Wilson's Creek, just 10 miles southwest of Springfield. When the battle was over, Union troops retreated to Rolla while the victorious Southern army occupied Springfield. Though the battle and its aftermath have been the subject of a few books, none covers it with the depth of Wilson's Creek: the Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Wilson's Creek profiles common soldiers and the communities that supported them.
Updated 01/11/2012
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