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Crucible of Reconstruction

War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862--1877

by Ted Tunnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1984

In late April, 1862, Union warships slipped past the Confederate river forts below New Orleans and blasted the Rebel fleet guarding the city. Advancing overland, General Benjamin F. Butler occupied New Orleans on May Day, and for the duration of the war the Stars and Stripes waved over the Confederacy's...
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Bittersweet Legacy

The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910

by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
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by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...
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Salem Witch Judge

The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

by Eve LaPlante
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place. In contrast to other works on the Civil War, this book focuses not on military events but on the larger issue of the societal...
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Hispano Homesteaders

The Last New Mexico Pioneers, 1850-1910

by F. Harlan Flint
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

After Santa Fe was founded in 1610, the Hispano people were restless to expand their colony. They slowly pushed their borders to the north, establishing little villages along the Rio Grande and dozens of its tributaries. Their progress was often interrupted, first by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and...
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Myths and Mysteries of Michigan

True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained

by Sally Barber
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
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Impressions of the North Cascades

Essays about a Northwest landscape

by John C. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

Originally published in 1996, Impressions of the North Cascades is a collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections on Washington State’s North Cascades. Sixteen contributors, ranging from geologists to environmental educators, share their own connections to these awe-inspiring mountains and their surrounding wilderness.
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The Galveston Era

The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession

by Earl Wesley Fornell
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011

The "Queen City" of Texas they called her—or the "Octopus of the Gulf." Galveston from 1845 to 1860 was the center of culture in Texas—or the monster with an economic strangle hold on all Texas trade. It was a gracious city with wide paved streets, impressive buildings, and neat gardens; yet it was...
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Freethinkers

A History of American Secularism

by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005

An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers...
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Faith of Our Founding Fathers

A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations

by Tim LaHaye
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996

Secular textbooks now fill our classrooms, while the Ten Commandments have been removed from their walls. Is this the vision held by those who worked to found this nation? What faith did our founding fathers truly believe and practice in their daily lives, and what does it really matter for us? Were...
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Christian America?

Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage

by George Marsden, David Barton, Jonathan D. Sassi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith. This tide of personal religious devotion connected to government observances and policies has ebbed and flowed through time, but it has always been a part of American...
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Culture and Redemption

Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

by Tracy Fessenden
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation...
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Village Atheists

How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation

by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close...
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