Se Us C War Pres Cdrom

Se Us C War Pres Cdrom

The Civil War as you’ve never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the country’s newspaper of record.  Available for the original time in a distinctive book/DVD package

The New York Times, conventional in 1851, was one of the few newsprints with correspondents on the front lines all around the Civil War. The Complete Civil War collects each article written in regards to the war from 1861 to 1865, plus select pieces before and after the war and is filled with the action, politics, and personal stories of this monumental event. From the initial shot fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, and from the Battle of Antietam to the Battle of Atlanta, as well as articles on slavery, states rights, the role of women, and profiles of cited heroes such as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the era comes alive through these daily first-hand accounts.

• More than 600 of the most crucial and interesting articles in the book—typeset and designed for easy reading
• Commentary by Editors and Civil War scholars Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds
• More than 104,000 further and added articles on the DVD-ROM— each article the Times published for the duration of the war.
• A elaborated chronology highlights articles and events of interest that may be found on the disk.

Strikingly designed and illustrated with hundreds of maps, historical photographs, and engravings, this book is a treasure for Civil War and history buffs everywhere.

“This is a arousing and attention holding and riveting look at the most important event in American history as seen through the eyes of an institution that was emergent as the most important newspaper in American history.   In these pages, the Civil War seems new and fresh, unfolding day after anxious day, as the fate of the republic hangs in the balance.”  Ken Burns

“Serious historians and casual readers similar will find this extraordinary collection of 600 articles and editorials with regards to the Civil War published in The New York Times before and for the duration of the war of great value and interest…enough to keep the most assiduous student busy for the next four years of the war’s sesquicentennial observations.”  James McPherson

“This arousing and attention holding work catapults readers back in time, permitting us to live through the Civil War as each day readers of The New York Times, worrying regarding the outcome of battles, marveling in regards to our generals, debating what to do in regards to slavery, hearing the words that Lincoln spoke, sentiment enthusiasti regarding our politics.  Symonds and Holzer have found an ingenuous new way to experience the most dramatic event in our nation’s history.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds have included not only each pertinent article from the pages of The Times, but intensified and illuminated them with editorial commentary that adds context and perspective, making the articles more informative and utile here than they were in the primary issues.  Nowhere else may readers of today get such an understanding of how readers of 1861-1865 learned of and understood their war.” William C Davis

The DVD runs on Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

Craig Symonds is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War and a retired professor and chairman of the history section at the United States Naval Academy.  He is the author of 11 books including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006, and Lincoln and His Admirals, which won the 2009 Lincoln Prize.  He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Tmely Reference for The Sesquicentennial
By michael mcgreevy
This splendid reference will be valuable to all Americans.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
The Civil War from the pages of the New York Times
By Steven A. Peterson
Very interesting work. The premise of this volume is simple: Publish newspaper articles from “The New York Times” depicting the progress of the Civil War from 1861-1865. The book contains about 600 newspaper articles; there is also a CD that has many thousands of additional articles. The volume also includes items from the 1850s that set the context for the Civil War (such as stories about slavery) as well as the years after the Civil War (covering Reconstruction). For those interested in primary sources, this will be fascinating reading.

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