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1) Badland
Pub. Date
c2019.
Description
"More than a decade after the Civil War, a nation tries to rebuild an an outlaw faction takes root across the West. Gunslinging detective Mathias Breecher is hired by one of the first African American senators to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, with nothing more than his wits and his revolver. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems....
2) The Pavilion
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This taunt drama takes place in South Carolina just after the Civil War. Frank Cassilis and Nothmore reunite after 6 years to protect an embezzler, who stole currency plates, and his daughter. They both develop feelings for Huddlestone's daughter. How far are these friends willing to go to get what they want.
3) Queen
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
Author
Formats
Description
On Agate Hill is set in North Carolina in the years from 1872 to 1927, and also in the present. The novel evokes the South in Reconstruction from an honest female perspective. It is the exuberantly romantic and episodic story of Molly Petree, an open-hearted and headstrong young Southern woman. The novel is framed with the letters and notes of a contemporary woman who seems almost a reincarnation of Molly herself.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Scarlett is a woman who is strong and has vitality. She deals with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, and the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Ashley Wilkes is the man she has wanted for so long, but he is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. At a Twelve Oaks barbeque, Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself. There she meets Rhett Butler. That is the first day of the Civil War....
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Formats
Description
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"Tall Randolph Scott is every inch a hero in three bullet-laced westerns. The secessionist fervor of the 1850s comes to California, and undercover Army officer Scott aims to thwart the separatist passions in The man behind the gun. There's Thunder over the plains and lightning in Scott's holsters in the second film. He portrays an Army captain assigned to a lawless area of Texas after the Civil War. Next, Scott is Riding shotgun and heading into a...
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