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Crucible of Reconstruction
War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862--1877
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...
Bittersweet Legacy
The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910
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...
by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
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...
Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
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
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...
Hispano Homesteaders
The Last New Mexico Pioneers, 1850-1910
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...
Myths and Mysteries of Michigan
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
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.
Impressions of the North Cascades
Essays about a Northwest landscape
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.
The Galveston Era
The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Secession
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...
Freethinkers
A History of American Secularism
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...
Faith of Our Founding Fathers
A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations
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...
Christian America?
Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage
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...
Culture and Redemption
Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
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...
Village Atheists
How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
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...