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The Civil War book series commercials were broadcast on television in the latter half of the 1980s. [20] Time-Life's other proprietary Civil War series, Voices of the Civil War, was also supported by television ads, albeit far less vigorously than the main series had been a decade earlier. [21]
The Second Civil War is a satirical black comedy television film directed by Joe Dante for the HBO cable television network, first aired on March 15, 1997. The film details the build-up to an ethnically fueled civil war in an alternate future United States as a result of unsustainably excessive immigration, political self-interest, and ratings-pursuing news media.
List of alternate histories diverging at the American Civil War is a compilation of alternate history fiction whose point of divergence is the American Civil War.These Civil War alternate histories typically focus on a Confederate victory but others focus on scenarios such as a Civil War being averted, British intervention in the conflict, a Union victory occurring under different ...
This category contains fictional works (books, films, games) that speculate about a second American Civil War. Pages in category "Second American Civil War speculative fiction" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Following the series, there was a sharp upturn in popular books and other works about the Civil War. [ 16 ] Robert Brent Toplin in 1996 wrote Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond , which included essays from critical academic historians who felt their topics of interest were not covered in enough detail and responses from Ken Burns and ...
In one of the unlikeliest stories in American history, Ulysses S. Grant rises from his humble beginnings to the winningest general in the Civil War. As a child in Ohio, he helps his father with his tanning business. Then is sent off to military school, becoming an underachieving cadet at West Point.
Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.
His first book, Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions, was chosen as the best new work addressing the Battle of Gettysburg in 1998, winning the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey's Bachelder-Coddington Award. The second edition of this book, published in 2011, won the U. S. Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished ...