Leo T. reviewed Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great American Conflict (Large Print) on + 1775 more book reviews
I obtained this as an add-on from a kind PBS member who was mailing us a wished-for book and will leave it in the lobby of the VA Hospital as there are very few nonfiction books on hand.
It will serve as light reading as the target audience is 8th grade history students. Each small section includes a period illustration and several paragraphs allowing the reader to learn of the feelings of people in that now distant time. For example, "The Southerner is the Negro's friend, his only friend. Let no intermeddling abolitionist, no refined philosophy, dissolve this relationship." (Geo. Fitzhugh, 1854).
There is a brief essay on 'Further Reading,' and a short index.
Bell Irwin Wiley's books are far, far better than this.
It will serve as light reading as the target audience is 8th grade history students. Each small section includes a period illustration and several paragraphs allowing the reader to learn of the feelings of people in that now distant time. For example, "The Southerner is the Negro's friend, his only friend. Let no intermeddling abolitionist, no refined philosophy, dissolve this relationship." (Geo. Fitzhugh, 1854).
There is a brief essay on 'Further Reading,' and a short index.
Bell Irwin Wiley's books are far, far better than this.
