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Fateful Lightning
Online Edition

A comprehensive multimedia history of the American Civil War featuring original text, animated campaign and battle maps, period music and more. In a central narrative of some 150,000 words, historian William Hillenbrand provides informed analysis of socio-political affairs as well as compelling accounts of the major military campaigns. Folk musicologist Dennis Kennedy highlights the war's rich legacy of popular music in an accompanying songbook, complete with twelve recordings of period songs, arranged and performed by the author. Other features include over 35 animated campaign and battle maps (with explanatory audio), original battlefield photographs, archival imagery of key civilian and military figures, text highlightning, pop-up biographical sketches with links to further online resources, and reenactment video.

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Praise for Fateful Lightning :

“The best integrated Civil War disc we've found.... A rich context is created by the breadth and depth of inter-linked biographical, social, political, and demographic material. Much more than just the sum of its parts, this edition gets an enthusiastic recommendation for all library collections and for Civil War enthusiasts."

–Harvard University Libraries review of CD-ROM edition.

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