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Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Battle Lines showcases various objects from the conflict (a tattered American flag from Fort Sumter, a pair of opera glasses, a bullet, an inkwell, and more), along with a cast of soldiers,...
2) Discipline
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the savagery of battle, the cruelty of the enemy (as well as...
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1872. With the Civil War over, exploration has resumed in the territories to the west of the Mississippi, and the geologist Stingley is looking to capitalize. Together with photographer Oscar Forrest, who catalogues the terrain, and their young assistant, Milton, Stingley strikes out into territory that might one day support a new civilization. But this is no virgin land. As the frontiersmen move west, it becomes clear that the expedition wont...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imrpint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
See the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes Alfred Waud, a special artist and war correspondent whose depiction of Pickett's Charge is thought to be the only visual account by an eyewitness. A story of extreme risk, strife, and the search for truth, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves into the crucial Civil War battle.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The Gettysburg Address: A graphic adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America. Using Lincoln’s words as a keystone, and drawing from first-person accounts, The Gettysburg Address shows us the events through the eyes of those who lived through the War, from soldiers to slaves.
7) Booth
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"In a time when brother was pitted against brother, no family was more divided than the Booths. The United States has become violently polarized. Political fanaticism divides an embittered populace. A recently elected President--an energizing symbol of change for some, and a harbinger of the downfall of America for others--stands at the center of the turmoil. It is 1865, and John Wilkes Booth is about to assassinate the President of the United States....
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts of war -- 'wounded wraiths and faceless shapes' float in her hallway at night, and bullet shells,...
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