Overview
A rare first-hand glimpse of the Civil War through the words of those who were there
This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address, as well as more personalized accounts of the war and of the popular culture of the times found in diaries, advertisements, and magazine and newspaper articles. Throughout, the readings are supplemented by introductions, period illustrations, sidebar information, and vocabularies.
David C. King (Hillsdale, NY) is the author of Wiley's American Kids in History series of U.S. history activity books as well as Colonies and Revolution and Westward Expansion in the American Heritage American Voices series. American Heritage is the premier American history magazine and is well known for its reference books.
Synopsis
A rare first-hand glimpse of the Civil War through the words of those who were there
This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address, as well as more personalized accounts of the war and of the popular culture of the times found in diaries, advertisements, and magazine and newspaper articles. Throughout, the readings are supplemented by introductions, period illustrations, sidebar information, and vocabularies.
David C. King (Hillsdale, NY) is the author of Wiley's American Kids in History series of U.S. history activity books as well as Colonies and Revolution and Westward Expansion in the American Heritage American Voices series. American Heritage is the premier American history magazine and is well known for its reference books.
Anita Barnes Lowen - Children's Literature
This book is part of the American Heritage "American Voices" series-a series which uses firsthand accounts "to add muscle and sinew" to the bare bones of history. Newspapers, diaries, letters, speeches and even poems and songs tell the story of the bloodiest war in American history. The book is divided into seven parts-beginning with an account of those events which widened the growing rift between the North and South and ending with the fall of the Confederacy and the restoration of the Union. Readers will find heart wrenching first-person descriptions of the harsh realities of slavery, bloody battles, the devastation of Sherman's march, and the horrors of Andersonville Prison. Photographs, sketches, engravings, maps, casualty lists and the handwritten first page of the Emancipation Proclamation provide vivid illustrations. A book of this sort should be on every school and classroom library shelf "to make history more interesting, exciting and meaningful." 2003, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Ages 9 up.
Editorials
Children's Literature
This book is part of the American Heritage "American Voices" series—a series which uses firsthand accounts "to add muscle and sinew" to the bare bones of history. Newspapers, diaries, letters, speeches and even poems and songs tell the story of the bloodiest war in American history. The book is divided into seven parts—beginning with an account of those events which widened the growing rift between the North and South and ending with the fall of the Confederacy and the restoration of the Union. Readers will find heart wrenching first-person descriptions of the harsh realities of slavery, bloody battles, the devastation of Sherman's march, and the horrors of Andersonville Prison. Photographs, sketches, engravings, maps, casualty lists and the handwritten first page of the Emancipation Proclamation provide vivid illustrations. A book of this sort should be on every school and classroom library shelf "to make history more interesting, exciting and meaningful." 2003, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Ages 9 up.— Anita Barnes Lowen