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    Elizabeth Varon

    Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

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    Elizabeth Varon

    Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

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    Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

    In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, disunion…

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    Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

    Elizabeth R. Varon

    Language has a profound power to shape political reality. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten…

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    We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    Elizabeth R. Varon

    The author challenges the historical assumption that women of Virginia were largely excluded from public life. Varon demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class…

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    Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

    Elizabeth R. Varon

    Language has a profound power to shape political reality. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten…

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    Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

    Elizabeth R. Varon

    A gripping account of the Civil War era story of Elizabeth Van Lew: high-society Southern lady, risk-taking Union spy, and postwar politician.

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    Southern Lady Yankee Spy the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew

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    A gripping account of the Civil War era story of Elizabeth Van Lew: high-society Southern lady, risk-taking Union spy, and postwar politician.

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    Sources for Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War

    Elizabeth R Varon (University of Virginia),Stefan Lund

    A higher education history source book to accompany Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War College Edition by Elizabeth R. Varon –

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    Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War

    Elizabeth R. Varon (is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, University of Virginia)

    A higher education version of Elizabeth R. Varon’s book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War –

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    Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

    Elizabeth R. Varon (Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, University of Virginia)

    A revisionist narrative of Appomattox, the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union, published on the 150th anniversary of the event that ended the Civil War.

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    Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

    Elizabeth R. Varon (Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, University of Virginia)

    A revisionist narrative of Appomattox, the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union, published on the 150th anniversary of the event that ended the Civil War.

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    Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War

    Elizabeth R. Varon (Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Associate Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia)

    In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.

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    Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart

    Robert J. Cook (Professor of American History, Sussex House),William L. Barney (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),Elizabeth R. Varon (Professor of History, University of Virginia)

    Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

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    Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart

    Robert J. Cook (Professor of American History, Sussex House),William L. Barney (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),Elizabeth R. Varon (Professor of History, University of Virginia)

    Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

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    Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love

    Dee Andrews,Gary Nash,Ira Berlin,W. Caleb McDaniel

    Considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America’s most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays, the volume recounts…

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    Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts

    Keith Bohannon,William C. Davis,Matthew Gallman

    A collection of essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners…

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    Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works

    Presents a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. These voices have particular resonance today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and…

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    New Perspectives on the Union War

    Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of…

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    New Perspectives on the Union War

    Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of…

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    Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

    This title grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the US Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. The result is a remarkable set of…

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