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Books by Rodney Steward
  | | David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity(1st Edition) by Rodney Steward Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ Tennessee Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57233-854-8, ISBN: 1-57233-854-7 "A mid-level Confederate official and lawyer in secessionist North Carolina, David Schenck (1835–1902) penned extensive diaries that have long been a wellspring of information for historians. In the midst of the secession crisis, Schenck overcame long-established social barriers and reshaped antebellum notions of manhood, religion, and respectability into the image of a Confederate nationalist. He helped found the revolutionary Sta ..." |
 | | David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity by Rodney Steward Paperback, 177 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-57233-892-0, ISBN: 1-57233-892-X "Esse. Quam. Videri,. 1878–1902. T. he final two decades of David Schenck's life were by no means quiet or uneventful. It was a period in his life during which he came to realize the limitations of the Southern society he loved and, in his own way, fought to preserve. Schenck reached the zenith of his career on the bench, but then fell short of attaining a loftier position on the state supreme court. He would also devote himself to ..." |
 | | Weirding the War Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (UnCivil Wars Ser.) by Stephen Berry, Amy Taylor, Anya Jabour, Barton A. Myers, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel Sutherland, Emory Thomas, Joan E. Cashin, Kenneth Noe, Leeann Whites, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael Degruccio, Michael Fellman, Paul Anderson, Peter Carmichael, Rodney Steward, Steven E. Nash, Andrew Slap, Diane Miller Sommerville, Stephen William Berry Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3413-4, ISBN: 0-8203-3413-8 ""It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind ..." |
 | | Southern Scoundrels Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (Hardback) by Jeff Forret Hardcover, 258 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7219-3, ISBN: 0-8071-7219-7 |
 | | Weirding the War Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges (UnCivil Wars Ser.) by Stephen Berry, Amy Taylor, Anya Jabour, Kenneth Noe, Leeann Whites, Michael Fellman, Paul Anderson, Emory Thomas, Michael Degruccio, Andrew Slap, Diane Miller Sommerville, Barton A. Myers, Megan Kate Nelson, Peter S. Carmichael, Joan E. Cashin, Lesley J. Gordon, Daniel E. Sutherland, Rodney J. Steward, Steven E. Nash, Brian Craig Miller, Daniel Sutherland, Peter Carmichael, Rodney Steward, Diane Sommerville, Brian Miller, Megan Nelson, Stephen William Berry Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4127-9, ISBN: 0-8203-4127-4 "“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind ..." |