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The Civil War – Lincoln’s Strategy to Restore the Union


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A Game Of Thrones LCG Princes Of The Sun Expansion (Revised Edition)


A Game Of Thrones LCG Princes Of The Sun Expansion (Revised Edition)


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Highlander's 1864 Poker Cards Replica


Highlander’s 1864 Poker Cards Replica


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For history lovers, poker buffs and those who just love antiques, this replica card deck takes your game to the days of the Civil War. It’s a faithful reproduction of the deck released by the L.I. Cohen Company of New York in the days of Lincoln, so there are no numbers and the royal cards look a bit different. A complete history of early American playing cards and the company that released this d…

Conquest of the Empire by Eagle Games


Conquest of the Empire by Eagle Games


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In Conquest Of The Empire you’ll relive the fun and challenge of the classic Milton-Bradley board game. It is set during the Roman era and depicts a civil war in the Mediterannean as rival factions attempt to take control of the empire. Take control of Caesar and guide Rome to wealth and glory….

Medieval II Gold Pack (Total War, Total War Kingdoms)


Medieval II Gold Pack (Total War, Total War Kingdoms)


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Medieval: Total War Gold Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack – Total War Kingdoms.Set in the turbulent Middle Ages Medieval puts you in command of your own empire as you crush neighboring kingdoms and unify all of Europe the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Medieval: Total War Kingdoms features four entire campaigns centered …

Rome: Total War Gold Edition


Rome: Total War Gold Edition


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Rome: Total War Gold Edition brings together the multi award winning Rome and critically acclaimed expension Barbarian Invasion. Available in one great value offering this is the perfect opportunity for armchair generals to conquer and control the greatest empire ever. Features: Largest scaled battles ever seen in gaming up to 10000 men at once on screen. Century spanning campaign Voted best stra…

Empire: Total War


Empire: Total War


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Control the sea, command great armies, forge a new nation and conquer the globe. Empire: Total War takes the Total War franchise to the 18th Century and the Age of Imperialism—a time of near perpetual war. This latest installation in the award-winning,multi-million unit selling Total War franchise introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. Players will b…

X-COM: Collection [Online Game Code]


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Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times


Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times


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 The Chinese Third Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49


The Chinese Third Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49


$160


This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945-1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of how the CCP waged and ultimately won the war, the transformation its armed forces and how the Communist leadership interacted with each other. Whereas most explanations of the CCP’s eventual victory focus on the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, when the revolution was supposedly won as a result of the communists’ invention of peasant nationalism, this book shows that the outcome of the revolution was not a foregone conclusion in 1945. It explains how the eventual victory of the communists resulted from important strategic decisions taken on both sides, in particular the remarkable transformation of the communist army from an insurgent / guerrilla force into a conventional army. The book also explores how the hierarchy of the People’s Republic of China developed during the war. It shows how Mao’s power was based as much on his military acumen as his political thought, above all his role in formulating and implementing a successful military strategy in the war of 1945-49. It also describes how other important figures, such as Lin Biao, Deng Xiaoping, Nie Rongzhen, Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi, made their reputations during the conflict; and reveals the inner workings of the first political-military elite of the PRC. Overall, this book is an important resource for anyone seeking to understand the origins and early history of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Partyand the People’s Liberation Army.

 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of World History


1001 Battles That Changed the Course of World History


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A worthy addition to any history buff’s shelf, this visually arresting volume has a commanding grasp of more than 4,500 years of military history. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War comes this latest addition to the 1001 series. It includes the seminal details about key battles that changed the course of history and shaped the political and cultural landscapes of our world—from the Battle of Troy and the Siege of Antioch to Gettysburg, Iwo Jima, and up to the present with battles of the Iraq War. 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of World History traces 4,500 years of armed conflict, from the small-scale battles of the ancient world (involving only a few hundred foot soldiers) to the epic military engagements of the American Civil War, the devastating world wars, and the smaller military actions of today. Military history from throughout the world is included, from the Mongols’ exploits in the Far East to the dramatic Spanish conquest of the Incas, and from the Boer War in South Africa to America’s engagements in Vietnam and Korea. Each entry describes the battle in full detail, including tactical moves, strategy, and military or technological breakthroughs, and reveals the part it played in the larger war or campaign as well as its wider political and social impact on society and history. The book is illustrated throughout with battle plans and maps, detail-rich medieval tapestries, dramatic commemorative paintings, and evocative photographs.

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2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


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New – Events in the year 2007 in Iraq.: * President – Massoud Barzani: * Prime Minister – Nechervan Idris Barzani * January 10 -: * President Bush announces new strategy that includes an additional 20,000 troops, eliciting vocal resistance from the US House and Senate.: * A Moldovan cargo plane mysteriously crashes in Balad. The official cause is fog, but there are claims it was shot down. * January 16 – Sixty-five people are killed in a suicide car bomb explosion outside the Baghdad’s Al-Mustan

 2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


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 2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


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Used – Events in the year 2007 in Iraq.: * President – Massoud Barzani: * Prime Minister – Nechervan Idris Barzani * January 10 -: * President Bush announces new strategy that includes an additional 20,000 troops, eliciting vocal resistance from the US House and Senate.: * A Moldovan cargo plane mysteriously crashes in Balad. The official cause is fog, but there are claims it was shot down. * January 16 – Sixty-five people are killed in a suicide car bomb explosion outside the Baghdad’s Al-Musta

 2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


2007 in Iraq, Including: Iraqi Insurgency, Operation Desert Thrust, Civil War in Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007, U.S. Raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, 2007 Balad Aircraft Crash, Diyala Campaign, Iraq Oil Law (2007)


$16.21


New – Events in the year 2007 in Iraq.: * President – Massoud Barzani: * Prime Minister – Nechervan Idris Barzani * January 10 -: * President Bush announces new strategy that includes an additional 20,000 troops, eliciting vocal resistance from the US House and Senate.: * A Moldovan cargo plane mysteriously crashes in Balad. The official cause is fog, but there are claims it was shot down. * January 16 – Sixty-five people are killed in a suicide car bomb explosion outside the Baghdad’s Al-Mustan

 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century


7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century


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A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons.What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How would we respond? Are we ready?These are the questions that Andrew Krepinevich asks—and answers—in this timely and often chilling new book, which describes the changing face of war in the twenty-first century and identifies seven deadly scenarios that threaten our security in the crucial years ahead. As president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and consultant to secretaries of defense, the CIA, the Homeland Security Council and the Joint Forces Command, Krepinevich’s job is to think the unthinkable—and prepare a response in the event our worst nightmares become reality. Basing his analysis on open intelligence sources, an assessment of the latest global and political trends, and his knowledge of contemporary military history, Krepinevich starts each of the seven scenarios in the context of current geopolitical realities and vividly tracks the path to crisis. From the implosion of Pakistan to a worldwide cyberattack, from the consequences of a timed withdrawal from Iraq to the likelihood of a China on the march, Krepinevich reveals the forces—both overt and covert—that are in play; the ambitions of world powers, terrorist groups, and rogue states; and the actions and counteractions both our enemies and our allies can be expected to take.As riveting as a thriller, 7 Deadly Scenarios takes you inside the corridors of power, peers into the world of defense planning, and explores U.S. military and political strategy in the past, present, and likely future. The result is a must-read book that will trigger discussion, thought,

 A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi


A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi


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In A Crisis in Confederate Command, Jeffery S. Prushankin scrutinizes the antagonistic relationship between Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith and his key subordinate, Richard Taylor. Prushankin offers a perspective on the events in the Trans-Mississippi through the eyes of these two high-strung men and analyzes how their clash in personalities and in notions of duty and glory shaped the course of the Civil War.Smith and Taylor, Prushankin explains, disagreed over how to thwart Federal incursions across Louisiana and Arkansas. Smith, a West Point graduate and disciple of Joseph E. Johnston, owed a debt to politicians in Arkansas and Missouri for helping him secure his appointment and so opted for a defensive policy that favored those states. Taylor, a Louisiana political general who had served his apprenticeship under Stonewall Jackson, argued for an offensive strike against the enemy. The friction between the two reached a climax at the Red River Campaign in 1864 when Taylor blatantly disobeyed orders from Smith and attacked Federal troops. Prushankin shows that what began as a dispute over strategy degenerated into a battle of egos and a succession of caustic personal attacks that eventually led to Smith’s relieving Taylor from command. Despite their discord, Prushankin argues, Smith and Taylor produced one of the Confederacy’s greatest military accomplishments in the Red River campaign victory against a Yankee juggernaut. With his insightful portraits of Smith and Taylor, use of previously untapped primary sources, and new interpretations of correspondence from key figures, Prushankin imparts fresh understanding of the psychology of leadership in the Civil War as a whole. About the Author:Jeffery S. Prushankin is a lecturer in military history at Penn State University, Abington. He lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

 A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign


A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign


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In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott’s military campaign-America’s first ever in a foreign country-helped pave the way for victory in the wider war against Mexico and also posed new challenges for discipline, logistics, and the treatment of civilians. Yet it has remained largely neglected by historians.In this first book-length study of Scott’s brilliant six-month campaign, Timothy Johnson shows how Scott overcame such obstacles as inadequate supplies, intense officer rivalries, and lack of support from President Polk-not to mention a country full of potentially hostile Mexicans-to keep his army intact deep in enemy territory and win the war. He interweaves a compelling narrative of the campaign-including detailed battle replays, terrain descriptions, and eyewitness accounts-with a comprehensive analysis of strategy, operations, and tactics. Along the way, he also provides considerable insight into Scott’s efforts to fight a “limited war” by combining military force with diplomatic negotiation and by implementing a pacification plan that now seems far ahead of its time.Scott developed a sophisticated strategy of moderation to end the war by employing a sword-and-olive-branch approach. Although his army repeatedly won battles against superior numbers as it drove ever deeper into Mexico’s interior, Scott paused after each contest to give the enemy an opportunity to sue for peace. And by respecting civilian property and purchasing supplies from the populace, his troops limited local support for guerrillas thatthreatened communication lines. Meanwhile on the battlefield, Scott successfully executed surprise flank attacks at Cerro Gordo and Padierna, tactical masterpieces that inspired a generation of Civil War generals-like Grant, Lee, McClellan, and countless others.Providing the definitive

 A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863


A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863


$30


From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative contributions of Lee, his top command, opposing Union generals, and of course the rebel army itself—is the subject of Civil War historian Jeffry D. Wert’s fascinating new history. Wert shows how the audacity and aggression that fueled Lee’s victories ultimately proved disastrous at Gettysburg. But, as Wert explains, Lee had little choice: outnumbered by an opponent with superior resources, he had to take the fight to the enemy in order to win. When an equally combative Union general—Ulysses S. Grant—took command of northern forces in 1864, Lee was defeated. A Glorious Army draws on the latest scholarship to provide fresh assessments of Lee; his top commanders Longstreet, Jackson, and Stuart; and a shrewd battle strategy that still offers lessons to military commanders today.

 A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863


A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863


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From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative contributions of Lee, his top command, opposing Union generals, and of course the rebel army itself—is the subject of Civil War historian Jeffry D. Wert’s fascinating new history. Wert shows how the audacity and aggression that fueled Lee’s victories ultimately proved disastrous at Gettysburg. But, as Wert explains, Lee had little choice: outnumbered by an opponent with superior resources, he had to take the fight to the enemy in order to win. When an equally combative Union general—Ulysses S. Grant—took command of northern forces in 1864, Lee was defeated. A Glorious Army draws on the latest scholarship to provide fresh assessments of Lee; his top commanders Longstreet, Jackson, and Stuart; and a shrewd battle strategy that still offers lessons to military commanders today.

 A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863


A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863


$9.99


From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative contributions of Lee, his top command, opposing Union generals, and of course the rebel army itself—is the subject of Civil War historian Jeffry D. Wert’s fascinating new history. Wert shows how the audacity and aggression that fueled Lee’s victories ultimately proved disastrous at Gettysburg. But, as Wert explains, Lee had little choice: outnumbered by an opponent with superior resources, he had to take the fight to the enemy in order to win. When an equally combative Union general—Ulysses S. Grant—took command of northern forces in 1864, Lee was defeated. A Glorious Army draws on the latest scholarship to provide fresh assessments of Lee; his top commanders Longstreet, Jackson, and Stuart; and a shrewd battle strategy that still offers lessons to military commanders today.

 A Great Civil War


A Great Civil War


$7.11


A Great Civil War is a substantial new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity nearly 150 years after the war’s end. In personal as well as historical terms, even more than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of American democracy. A lifelong student of military strategy and tactics, Russell F. Weigley brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals from generals to captains to privates. He puts the reader, as well as anyone who has written about war, on the battlefield. All the important engagements are covered: Fort Sumter, the early clashes in the West and border states, the naval encounters in the East, and the great and horrible battles whose names resound in American history — Shiloh, Corinth, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Appomattox. A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. Every student of war will find new insights and interpretations at the strategic and the tactical level. A Great Civil War also analyzes the politics of each side in relationship to battlefield situations and makes firm judgments about the leaders on both sides of the conflict. Weigley is unique in his ability to put all the pieces on the board at once; the reader understands as never before how war and politics (and individuals) interacted in this infinitely complex story.

 A Guide to Military Figures of the United States: William Tecumseh Sherman


A Guide to Military Figures of the United States: William Tecumseh Sherman


$23.75


New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get to know more about William Tecumseh Sherman. Most famous for his tactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman brought that same military philosophy to the West, where he shaped a policy and strategy that would finally subjugate all the native peoples of the plains. Sherman retired from the army in 1884 and famously refused to become a candidate f

 A Guide to Military Figures of the United States: William Tecumseh Sherman


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New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Get to know more about William Tecumseh Sherman. Most famous for his tactics in the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman brought that same military philosophy to the West, where he shaped a policy and strategy that would finally subjugate all the native peoples of the plains. Sherman retired from the army in 1884 and famously refused to become a candidate f

 A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson's Civil War Memoir


A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir


$34.95


General Benjamin H. Grierson is most widely known as the brilliant cavalryman whose actions in the Civil War’s Mississippi Valley campaign facilitated Ulysses S. Grant’s capture of Vicksburg. There is, however, much more to this key Union officer than a successful raid into Confederate-held Mississippi. In A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir, edited by Bruce J. Dinges and Shirley A. Leckie, Grierson tells his story in forceful, direct, and highly engaging prose.A Just and Righteous Cause paints a vivid picture of Grierson’s prewar and Civil War career, touching on his antislavery views, Republican Party principles, and military strategy and tactics. His story begins with his parents’ immigration to the United States and follows his childhood, youth, and career as a musician; the early years of his arriage; his business failures prior to becoming a cavalry officer in an Illinois regiment; his experiences in battle; and his Reconstruction appointment. Grierson also provides intimate accounts of his relationships with such prominent politicians and Union leaders as Abraham Lincoln, Richard Yates, Andrew Johnson, William T. Sherman, Ulysses S.Grant, John C. Frémont, and Benjamin Prentiss.Because Grierson wrote the memoir mainly with his family as the intended audience, he manages to avoid the self-promotion that plagues many of his contemporaries’ chronicles. His reliance on military records and correspondence, along with family letters, lends an immediacy rarely found in military memoirs. His reminiscences also add fuel to a reemerging debate on soldiers’ motivations for enlisting—in Grierson’s case, patriotism and ideology—and shed new light on the Western theater of the Civil War, which has seen a recent surge in interest among Civil War enthusiasts.A non-West Point officer, Grierson owed his developing career to his independent studies of the military and his connections to

 A Mind That Found Itself


A Mind That Found Itself


$27.32


This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thing contributes so much to its value as its authenticity. It is an autobiography, and more: in part it is a biography; for, in telling the story of my life, I must relate the history of another self–a self which was dominant from my twenty-fourth to my twenty-sixth year. During that period I was unlike what I had been, or what I have been since. The biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battlefield that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self.I am not telling the story of my life just to write a book.

 A Mind That Found Itself


A Mind That Found Itself


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This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thing contributes so much to its value as its authenticity. It is an autobiography, and more: in part it is a biography; for, in telling the story of my life, I must relate the history of another self–a self which was dominant from my twenty-fourth to my twenty-sixth year. During that period I was unlike what I had been, or what I have been since. The biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battlefield that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self.I am not telling the story of my life just to write a book.

 A People and a Nation: Brief Edition of 4r.e., v.B: Since 1865: History of the United States


A People and a Nation: Brief Edition of 4r.e., v.B: Since 1865: History of the United States


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 A People and a Nation: Brief Edition of 4r.e., v.B: Since 1865: History of the United States


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Used – This brief edition portrays the rich fabric of social history – the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children – into more traditional political, diplomatic, and economic narrative to tell a comprehensive story of American history. It features coverage of pre-contact American Indian and West African cultures, early European explorations and American Indian-European contact, and updated treatment of the War of 1812, the Civil War military strategy, and the West in the post-Civil War