Best american civil war biographies according to redditors

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u/guesting · 30 pointsr/sports

NEVER FORGET - the way he was used by the military for propaganda, how they burned his uniform and journal, how they lied about and covered up his death by friendly fire.

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Men-Win-Glory-Odyssey/dp/030738604X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgU6SwuZJIY

Big ups to his brother for calling out the bullshit at his funeral.

u/snoogins355 · 15 pointsr/MilitaryPorn

Shot by a fellow ranger's saw, I think.

Check out the book When Men Win Glory Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman https://www.amazon.com/dp/030738604X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uPC3AbBCFP55Z

u/stewyg27 · 13 pointsr/nfl

Check out Where Men Win Glory if you haven't yet.

Jon Krakauer is a very popular author and does his typically thorough research into the story.

Gives some great insight into his personal drives and motives, the portions describing his days on the football field will really take you back if you remember watching him.

u/kickstand · 13 pointsr/atheism
u/The_Old_Gentleman · 9 pointsr/badeconomics

The same author also has a similar book on The Great Depression and the New Deal, feel free to take a crack at it. The author is also a creationist (pardon me, he actually "challenges the Darwinian paradigm" by promoting "intelligent design") who supports some of the craziest conspiracy theories about the UN.

Bonus: This book in the "Customers also bought this" section. Here's an enlarged cover and the books contents.

So here it is folks: Woodrow Wilson lead a Socialist coup on the US, Obama is a communist, healthcare reform is literally the Great Leap Forward all over again, it's just a matter of time before the US has Stalinist gulags around, "Socialism" has destroyed Sweden and Karl Marx has voted for Obama from beyond the grave!

I need a drink.

u/AnthonyGonzalez27780 · 8 pointsr/history

Not a direct answer, but if you want the American point-of-view during the same time period, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War and the companion PBS film

u/coree · 7 pointsr/badliterarystudies

You know those ultra conservative academics who claim that "people want to stop teaching the classics b/c postmodernism is tyrannical"? People like the one who wrote this book??

This Buzzfeed article is why they do this. This article is the war on tradition they're trying to stop.

u/[deleted] · 6 pointsr/todayilearned

Here's the official summary of his book being sold on Amazon:

>In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Men-Win-Glory-Odyssey/dp/030738604X


Why are you such a proudly ignorant asshole? The only reason these investigations fucking happened you ignorant shit was because the family was questioning the inconsistencies and because they didn't back down they exposed the real story. Seriously, did you know anything about this topic before coming into this thread?

u/Barnst · 6 pointsr/tuesday

I agree with your concerns for the future of the moderate left, especially when I see the likes of Sanders and Corbyn. But, honestly, the party’s are responding to the incentives given to them. The last generation of liberal politicians was the most moderate produced by either political system in a generation. And what did they have to show for it? Torn apart by both sides as out-of-touch elite technocrats, with the attack from the right feeling even more vicious for the party’s moderation.

A couple of decades of that also makes it pretty hard to muster the energy to say, “no, no, we should take the other side’s concerns seriously.”

Take Kevin Williamson. I honestly just don’t have much concern left for defending the author of this. Jonah Goldberg is another good example. I follow him on Twitter and like his dogs, but every time he says something about civility in discourse, this cover flashes through my head.

My grandparents emigrated from the bloodlands of Europe of world war 2. I was raised to be well aware of the horrors of totalitarianism from either side of the spectrum. Telling me that because I think government has a role in the solution to societal problems puts me on the slippery spectrum to Stalin and Hitler is both intellectually lazy and deeply personally infuriating. It’s better articulated and researched, but it strikes the same chord with me as old school John Birch Society crap. It’s exactly why the one point I reacted against in the first place was claiming that no one links liberalism and communism.

So what motivation do I have to come to the defense of thinkers who apparently are willing to lump my political preferences in the same camp as the 20th century’s worst monsters? Again, I understand that nothing I’m saying is particularly fair or constructive, and you could point to plenty of authors on the left guilty of similar rhetoric. But I also don’t see a groundswell of discussion insisting that those authors get a voice on Fox News or the National Review. I’m tired of being in the only camp (moderate liberals) apparently expected to take everyone’s views and preferences into account.

u/yankbot · 5 pointsr/ShitAmericansSay

I think my favorite thing is that almost every time I see a le fuk u amerikkka circlejerk, it's done via an American platform or website.

Snapshots:

u/CorinthWest · 5 pointsr/texas

The civil war and those that fought it is a lot more complicated than that. Slavery was a central issue but not a singular issue. I suggest the reading of Bruce Catton's Centennial history of the war. A fascinating read that covers everything from the socioeconomic to the battles to the people that fought them.

u/mancake · 5 pointsr/history

The British government and was ambivalent/sympathetic towards the confederacy, but lots of British people, particularly in the middle and lower classes, were strongly in favor of the Union. Britain was the home of the abolitionist movement, and liberal (19th century liberal) British people had no doubt about which side to take.

As for who wrote the history, the dominant narrative about the civil war up into the mid-20th century was the lost cause idea, that the confederates were the good guys and it's sad that they lost. Supporters of the Lost Cause idea, including ex-confederate leaders directly after the war, minimized the importance of slavery to try and justify the Confederacy's existence. It's only the in the last 60 years that this has changed, since historians restored slavery to its proper place in the story.

The most popular book on the war is The Battle Cry of Freedom, which gives a long history of the period before the war and is usually considered pretty balanced. 1864: Lincoln at the gates of History is good, but more detailed. The Lincoln-Douglas debates give some interesting context, and there's an audiobook with people performing the speeches that's good. Also, Frederick Douglass' autobiography is an interesting way to learn about slavery. This is already long enough, but if you want more suggestions I have lots...

u/bojiggidy · 4 pointsr/MilitaryPorn

I'm sure most of y'all know already, but if you don't...Howard Wasdin's book is pretty solid. All about his experience in Somalia.

u/Big_Bags_of_Sand · 4 pointsr/AirForce

So did Pat Tillman, initially, when he joined the army at age 25. There were a bunch of crazy 18-year old yahoos hooting and hollering after lights out. (Source: this book, highly recommended.)

u/demasx · 4 pointsr/AskScienceFiction

With phrases like "all is fair in love and war" we don't tend to think about the rules of war and engagement, but there are actually many. It is American policy that combat / military actions during wartime owe no reparations.

That's obviously a loaded definition since the definition of "war" has expanded and greyed... and it's become more difficult to determine what constitutes a "combat action" but for more clear examples:

  • If troops blow up your farmhouse because enemy troops are occupying it as a base, in an already declared war, no reparations will be paid.

  • If troops run over your livestock (or worse) during R&R, even in a declared war, reparations will be paid.

    In this case, Tony is technically performing a peace-keeping / policing function, but the conflict has easily arguably escalated to a "war" against an non-sovereign entity (like non-nation terrorists, rebels, or insurgents)... that's the title of the film after all... so the issue could be debated back and forth.

    If Tony fought it, his lawyers could make make his case for no reparations, but since Tony's entire intention is placating the powers that be, he gladly accepts responsibility for his team's actions.
u/doctorwaffle · 4 pointsr/books

Came here to post this. Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is a great way for the layman to become scientifically literate, and it's entertaining. I like all of Krakauer's works, but would particularly recommend Where Men Win Glory for a perspective on the war in Afghanistan as well as a portrait of Pat Tillman, a complicated man.

u/grecy · 4 pointsr/pics

I'm currently reading Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman and your pictures immediately made me think of Pat Tillman.

Good luck man.

u/aaron13f · 3 pointsr/reddit.com

Where Men Win Glory is a great but heartbreaking book about Pat's life.

u/WhoAteMyPizza · 3 pointsr/atheism

One of my favorite books, love John Krakauer.

Where Men Win Glory

u/aephoenix · 3 pointsr/food
u/tunapepper · 2 pointsr/atheism

For those who haven't read Where Men Win Glory, you should consider reading it. Pat Tilman was a damn interesting and inspiring man. Additionally, the writer, Jon Krakauer does a great job of presenting the history and context of Afghanistan.

u/dareads · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Have you ever read anything about Pat Tillman?

It might change your perspective about what being a hero means. That man was a hero.

u/CCG14 · 2 pointsr/Libertarian

I just finished a book about him that is really good. It makes it worse knowing how amazing of a person he really was.

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman https://www.amazon.com/dp/030738604X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_FhxYzbGF69HAP

u/pdxtraveltips · 2 pointsr/FulfillmentByAmazon

Hope this is the right place. I am not a newb per se I’ve been playing the retail arbitrage game for last 18 months, but decided to try flipping books which I am most definitely a newb at so thought I would throw this here. I just sent in 20 books and was looking for feedback on pricing. I won’t list all 20 here, this is just a sample of three but I think fairly representative.

Total Fishing Manual, paid $1, I’m listing for $15. Rank is 85K and lowest FBA price is $10.

Practical Research Methods, paid $2, I’m listing at $100. Book is 743K and lowest FBA is $199. New price is listed at 288. I am too low aren’t I?

Setting us Free, paid $1.5, I’m listing at $16.25. Rank is 1.9mm and lowest FBA is $80, but non FBA is $16.25 with free shipping.

I guess I will toss in a bonus one because I have no clue what to do with this. Paid $.50. Lowest price is $214. I was thinking of listing at $40. I saw it for sale online at Powell’s for that much. Figure they know what they are doing.

u/Seeda_Boo · 2 pointsr/history

James McPherson authored the best single-volume work on the U.S. Civil War, his Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom.

He's got many others on specific aspects of the Civil War including great works on the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, which he's visited and explored countless times.

u/HPPD2 · 2 pointsr/Weakpots

> Army of the Potomac

you mean this one?

That could work. I think he's more into revolutionary and civil war stuff.

u/spundnix32 · 2 pointsr/todayilearned

Faust is her name. Read the book. It is a good look at the history of the war.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375703837/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/185-0712842-0048500

u/graveyard_creeper · 2 pointsr/history

This book expands some on that topic: http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Suffering-American-Vintage/dp/0375703837

Great read, and PBS created a documentary based on its contents.

u/ridingthepine · 2 pointsr/MURICA

If you haven't read the book "Where Men Win Glory" by John Krakauer, you really really should.

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Men-Win-Glory-Odyssey/dp/030738604X

u/vwcx · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

EDIT: Upon re-reading, I see you already referenced this book, so I'll just leave the link for those interested in checking it out. My bad.

There's a great book that just came out focusing on the nature of the OP's question: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War

From the description:
Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level.

u/benhamin_nunu · 2 pointsr/atheism

Seriously, read this book.

u/nilhilustfrederi · 2 pointsr/atheism

Read Jon Krakauer's book. Apparently the movie "The Tillman Story" is good as well, but I havn't seen it.

u/JackGetsIt · 1 pointr/asktrp

You're going to ruffle some feathers and your going to run into bigger fish that will put you in your place as well. But people forgive charisma and boldness all the time, so it will balance itself out. Look at Pat Tillman. Gentle, down to earth alpha and amongst his special forces team I'm sure he was just one of the guys. Of course you can be 100af and still be respectable. Maybe try reading No More Mr. Nice Guy. Or read up a bit more on Tillman. Jon Krakauer has a good book on him; It's called Where Men Win Glory.

u/fotoford · 1 pointr/books

Here's a book about Pat Tillman, a man of integrity who led an exceptional, albeit short life: Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer

link to Amazon page

u/KrisK_lvin · 1 pointr/MensRights

> i ask you to explain to me, how the average person has the required level of knowledge on politics to make informed decisions about who should run state?

It’s not necessary to explain this to you because the question is entirely irrelevant. It is a very narrow and parochial understanding of knowledge which becomes apparent if you reverse the question: How can any one individual, or small group of select individuals, have the required knowledge of the populace to make informed decisions about how the state should be run on their behalf?

The issue is not whether "the vast majority of people” have or don’t have "the required level of knowledge on politics” because they don’t need whatever this specialist knowledge is to have specialist knowledge of their own lives and families.

In fact, for that matter, specialist knowledge of the kind you are talking about is highly disputed, is not a well-defined object that can be learned or not and is the subject of endless debate - in a democracy at least that’s true. Under a dictatorship you can simply have dissenting voices silenced.

> … dictatorships are less pleasant but democracies are just as corrupt as any dictatorship its just far less obvious ...

That is absolute rubbish. I mean it’s not even a different point of view, just actual palpable nonsense.

The only way in which that statement could be true is if we were to extend the meaning of ‘Democracy’ to include countries like North Korea as they are named the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea or Zimbabwe or any other places which ostensibly have some form of democracy, let’s say Nigeria, but where corruption is absolutely rife and not even “far less obvious” but plain to see to anyone from the minute they wake up in the morning to the moment they go to bed at night.

The important point there from your argument is that the issues of corruption in the latter ‘democracies’ have absolutely nothing to do with the form of government they have, or who is in power at any one time, or whether or not the populace at large have what you call "the required level of knowledge on politics to make informed decisions”.

Corruption exists in democracies such as the US or the UK and so on. But so do burglary, murder, extortion, rape, riots, inequality and any number of other crimes and injustices. A democratic system is not a promise of utopia and was never meant to be.

You’re a student so you’re young and it’s fine to hold pompous and silly ideas for the sake of shocking older people such as myself, but if it really is the case that you have actually "done considerable research” into dictatorships and democracies, then perhaps you could tell me what your thoughts on. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1: The Spell of Plato as I have to say your comments are rather suggestive of the idea that you think a dictatorship ruled by an elite class of selfless and benign philosophers would be just as good, perhaps better, than a democracy.

You could also, for instance, look at books such as these and explain where you can find anything comparable happening under a functioning democracy (and not e.g. those I mentioned before):

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World by Theodore Dalrymple

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot

u/spinosaurs70 · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

First this list of reasons, historians think the south lost the civil war:http://www.historynet.com/why-the-south-lost-the-civil-war-cover-page-february-99-american-history-feature.htm
Next this book
It 's a edited memior of a member of the Silbey brigade, and dicusses the Santa Fe campaign.
From what i have read
.took horses to a desert
.Begin rationing water even before the desert started
.Shoes begin to wore out earlier
.Poor food rationing
It seems that the confedracy wasted , argubalby the best idea they ever had.

u/Marcus__Aurelius · 1 pointr/politics

A slight correction to your post is that Pat Tillman was an Army Ranger, not a Marine (Krakauer, 2009; Wikipedia, 2011). But indeed, he was certainly atheistic.

u/ceanders · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

Nature's Metropolis by Bill Cronon - fascinating story about how Chicago developed into the urban powerhouse it is today

The Name of War by Jill Lepore - a history of King Philip's War of the 17th century, a profoundly bloody conflict between colonists + Indians

This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust - history of death and suffering in the Civil War (LOVE this book)

The Circus Age, by Janet Davis - a political and cultural history of the circus during the 19th century

Segregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom Miller - how pop music developed from racial categorization

u/vonHonkington · 1 pointr/AskReddit

i just read an interesting section in this book which showed that support for secession was high in counties where the slave population was high, and low where it was low, especially west virginia and parts of tennessee and kentucky.

u/eduardocl · 1 pointr/worldnews

AdventurerSmithy, I understand your point and I agree with you in some aspects capitalism sucks. Obviuoslly you have to pay for all in a capitalist society, but will pay anyway even in a socialist country working in a state factory and you still poor while the rulling class lives with all priviledges. I know what is working for a/or less than minimum wage just like you and I know your pain. There are poors in Canada like Brazil, but being poor here is different being poor in your country or USA.

You mention the .1% but we have to consider the following: how could they get there? They just earn money because invented a product that anyone wants to pay or had some little help from state? Why I'm saying that? That's because a company cannot eliminate from market their competitor. The great companies hates the capitalism because they can be thrown out of the market by more efficient companies, remember Microsoft loosing its monopoly and Apple loosing market to low cost android smartphones of several brands and IBM. So, the some giant companies, mainly financial companies, create links with polititians to control the market because they need the state's power to do that, you cannot concentrate the wealthy without a central control and no companie can do that in genuine capitalist market where the competition can win from you, turning the capitalist system in a corporativism system. They need the state control to control the markets, destroying in long term the economy.

And, in socialist countries like Russia, China, Vietnam what measures those governments took to decrease the poverty? Adopting capitalism, and the worst kind of capitalism that has no respect to worker's rights, like China does. The capitalist system fits up well in any power framework, even in a socialist country because socialism and capitalism are not in the same category. Capitalism is a economic phenomena, the best system to distribuit wealty. Period. Socialism is a power framework that can live above a capitalist system like China or a corportative system like our contries, pretending to be a democracy.

You think that socialism is a solution for the injustices but I think different because whenever a socialist party get the power happens the same thing: mass murdering and porverty just like Venezuela nowadays and just like the past century socialist states. Why should I support, so? I cannot believe in a system that when implemented always ends up with the same results (poverty and mass murdering) and the excuses (that was not true socialism or the fascist screw up the system). The history shown that to us. I suggest you reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Socialism-Guides/dp/1596986492

In my opinion, I believe that in economics the capitalist system works well, just look at the most free economic countries and notice that wealthy it is more distribuited than in socialist countries. In politics, I believe in democracy and equality in law, and I don't have any problem if the state gets some some money from my pockets to help the poor people, but I strongly against when the state get your money to build a power system to control everyone economically and politically. That is exactly happening in Latin America socialism, and there a few bankers making profit with our disgrace. I know you disagree, but I respect your freedom of thought.

u/VU_Dores · 1 pointr/MaddenUltimateTeam

While you are free to voice your pleasure or displeasure with the choice, just a reminder that this sub is not a place for political discussion. Thanks.

Edit: Gonna plug his biography in case anyone wants to learn more. It's amazing.

u/spike · 1 pointr/books

There is really only one answer to this question, and that is Bruce Catton's Civil War trilogy.

u/aliveshecried · 1 pointr/todayilearned

You should read this book

u/cookiexcmonster · 1 pointr/history

Battle Cry of Freedom By James McPherson is a fantastic read on the civil war era. I had to read it for a class but it was actually very interesting and I enjoyed reading it.

It may cover a span of time too small and too in depth for you but I would highly recommend it.

u/trillium_waste · 1 pointr/IFchildfree

Reading: Just finished Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. AMAZING memoir. I love memoirs, and even though I didn't grow up in such bad circumstances as he did, I could identify a lot with his experience of going from being poor/on food stamps to making the American dream. I basically read the whole thing while on a flight recently.

Also just finished [Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01863JROC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1). She's a Christian author but this book was more of a memoir/reflection about slowing down in life from being so crazy busy rather than an inane self-help Christian-ese book.

Next book on tap is Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer, one of my favorite authors.

Cooking: Dragon Noodles was on the menu this week and it was delicious. Also Cheeseburger Pasta. Both by Budget Bytes, one of my favorite cooking chicks. Her recipes never fail and they're cheap AND delicious. I'll be making a batch of this sausage, bean, and kale soup but substituting spinach for kale.

Other: A former student of mine is paying me to edit her dissertation, so that's been taking up any extra time I have (ha!) between getting back from a cruise and packing up my house.

u/stgilesbuzzman · 1 pointr/USCivilWar

Bruce Catton's works introduced me to the ACW. His writing isn't always very thorough from an academic perspective (fewer citations, etc) but his florid prose is a great way to get hooked into the broader Homeric narrative of the conflict and how it plays on the American consciousness. He wrote a few general histories, including the classic 1960 American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (if you want to go the pictorial route). But the best thing of his, to my recollection, is the beautifully-written Army of the Potomac trilogy (Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road, and A Stillness at Appomattox), which you can now get in a single volume (https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Cattons-Lincolns-Stillness-Appomattox/dp/0517447711). Its focus, however, is on the Union's Army of the Potomac, so you only see the war through one side and theater (the Eastern campaigns).

u/JimH10 · 1 pointr/USCivilWar

As an introduction that is both serious and readable, I don't believe even McPherson beats Catton.

u/tenent808 · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom is immediately the first book that comes to mind. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is “the book” to read on the Civil War. It is a highly readable account of the build-up to the Civil War, causes, and the war itself. It also won a Pulitzer Prize. For more, I’d also check out Ta-Nehisi Coate’s online book club on Battle Cry of Freedom over at The Atlantic.

Other excellent works on the period I would recommend are:

  • Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: an account of the Lincoln administration during the war years

  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner: details Lincoln’s career and his relationship and views on slavery.

  • Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce Levine: takes a look at the southern plantation economy and its destruction in the Civil War

  • This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard President and historian Faust looks at how the nation collectively dealt with the death of 600,000 young men and the national trauma of the war

  • Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams: an older book, but still a classic on the Union command structure and Lincoln’s difficulty in choosing an effective commander for the Union Army

  • Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy: for the military side of the conflict without much historiography

    Also, the Civil War produced some of the greatest memoirs in American letters:

  • Grant’s Memoirs: written after his presidency with the assistance of Mark Twain, who later compared them to Caesar’s Commentaries

  • Sherman’s Memoirs: called by literary critic Edmund Wilson a fascinating and disturbing account of an "appetite for warfare" that "grows as it feeds on the South"

  • The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis: a massive tome of a book in which Davis lays out his rational for secession (in hindsight) and upon which much of the Lost Cause mythology would later be based

    And, I always recommend reading poetry and fiction, so I would also encourage you to look at Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, as well as the war poetry of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, particularly Melville’s poem The Martyr, written days after Lincoln’s assassination. More contemporary fiction would be Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, or EL Doctorow’s The March.

    Finally, check out David Blight’s Open Yale Lectures on the Civil War. Prof. Blight is a fantastic lecturer. They are free, and the course syllabus is online, and in 26 hours you can take a full Yale course completely on your own.
u/harrison_wintergreen · 1 pointr/politics

> Most people were not sympathetic to the cause or to the protesters or their methods.

the peak of the protests was circa 1968.

in the 1972 election, the Nixon/Agnew ticket beat anti-war McGovern/Shriner ticket by one of the largest landslides in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972

the protests got a lot of attention. but their impact and importance has been grossly exaggerated. the protests did not represent anything close to a majority or mainstream view of Americans.

https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Sixties-Guides/dp/1596985720

same with today's protests. 1% of the population marching in the streets and posting pics on Instagram doesn't necessarily mean they speak for the other 99% of the population.

u/Truthisnotallowed · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (Two Volumes) Hardcover – 1960 - not only the history - but full of full color depictions of the major battles.

Chickamauga - these pictures should captivate and enlighten any young history buff.

u/comited · 1 pointr/books

Fiction:
The Terror by Dan Simmons

Non-Fiction:
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

u/JeffNasty · 0 pointsr/news

74,000 vs 147,000 according to very respected US historians. Pretty easy to corroborate. Edit: Combat deaths is what I count, not disease.

Read a book read a book read a mother fuckin' book.