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My Lai

An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War

by William Thomas Allison
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012

On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should...
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The Battle of Arginusae

Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

by Debra Hamel
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015

A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the battle would have led...
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Marrow of Tragedy

The Health Crisis of the American Civil War

by Margaret Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide...
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Secession Winter

When the Union Fell Apart

by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early...
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by William Kerrigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman’s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects...
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by Ronald S. Coddington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of...
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The Baptism of Early Virginia

How Christianity Created Race

by Rebecca Anne Goetz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of "hereditary...
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The Literature of Reconstruction

Not in Plain Black and White

by Brook Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017

In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evokes literature’s immediacy to recreate arguments still unresolved today about state versus federal authority, the government’s role in education, the growing power of banks and corporations, the paternalism...
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The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper

Civil-Military Relations and the United Nations

by Arturo C. Sotomayor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014

The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries transition to a more democratic system. Two-thirds...
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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

From the First Century CE to the Third

by Edward N. Luttwak
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale...
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Living Hell

The Dark Side of the Civil War

by Michael C. C. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014

Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who...
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At War with PTSD

Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality

by Robert N. McLay, MD PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012

The Spartans called it The Trembler; recent history has seen it termed shell shock, combat fatigue, soldier’s heart, and Vietnam Syndrome. Whatever the name, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has always been with us. With 20 percent of the Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq exhibiting...
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A Bloodless Victory

The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory

by Joseph F. Stoltz III
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Once celebrated on par with the Fourth of July, January 8th—the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans—is no longer a day of reverence for most Americans. Although the United States’ stunning 1815 defeat of the British army south of New Orleans gave rise to the presidency of Andrew Jackson,...
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