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The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
In the early 1960s, civil rights activists and the Kennedy administration engaged in parallel, though not always complementary, efforts to overcome Mississippi’s extreme opposition to racial desegregation. In The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960–1964, James...
by Michael Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The definitive guidebook for Civil War tourists, from the novice historian to the die-hard buff
For those who can’t resist trying to see it all, this indispensable book contains information on and reviews of almost 450 historical sites across the United States related to the Civil War, including...
The Aftermath of Battle
The Burial of the Civil War Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or permanently damaged. Skirmishes and battles could result in casualty numbers as low as one or two and as high as tens of thousands. The carnage of the battlefield left a lasting impression on those who...
Cost and Fee Allocation in Civil Procedure
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The volume describes and analyzes how the costs of litigation in civil procedure are distributed in key countries around the world. It compares the various approaches, draws general conclusions from that comparison, and presents global trends as well as common problems and solutions. In particular,...
Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South
Louisville, Kentucky, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. Throughout its history, Louisville has simultaneously displayed northern and southern characteristics in its race relations. In their struggles against racial injustice...
Materials for Construction and Civil Engineering
Science, Processing, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This expansive volume presents the essential topics related to construction materials composition and their practical application in structures and civil installations. The book's diverse slate of expert authors assemble invaluable case examples and performance data on the most important groups of...
by Lt.-Col. Kay Brinkmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Helmuth von Moltke’s alleged statement the U.S. Civil War was an affair in which two armed mobs chased each other around the country and from which no lessons could be learned underlines a grave misjudgment of this war in contemporary Germany. Today, however, the American Civil War is recognized...
by Ludmig
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Ganhe tempo de estudo com esta Edição Inteligente da Código Civil Brasileiro, atualizada até 27/02/2013.
A Lei nº 10.406, de 10 de janeiro de 2002, institui o Código Civil Brasileiro.
Esta Edição Inteligente foi concebida com...
Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between its African American and white communities by creating a repressive racial system that ensured white supremacy by legally segregating black residents and removing their basic citizenship and voting rights. Over the ensuing decades,...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2014 Issue -- Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History: A Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 4
December 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Gary Gallagher & Kathryn Shively Meier
Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History
Peter C. Luebke
"Equal to Any Minstrel Concert I Ever Attended at Home": Union Soldiers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from prominent lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to enslaved women, from black firemen in southern cities to Confederate émigrés in Latin America—The...
Civil War America
A Social and Cultural History with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of that day we find that many of the questions at the heart of that conflict are also central to the very idea of America—and that many of them remain unresolved in our own...
Upon the Fields of Battle
Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...