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by Nancy M. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Although arrests were made in nearby counties, not one person was prosecuted for aiding a fugitive slave in DeKalb County, Illinois. First, the area Congregationalist,...
The Making of an Abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison's Path to Publishing The Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
William Lloyd Garrison’s life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studied Garrison can ignore his editorship of The Liberator but many have not fully understood his belief in the central role of a well-edited newspaper in the...
Thomas Jefferson's Image of New England
Nationalism Versus Sectionalism in the Young Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Writers often depict Thomas Jefferson as a narrow-minded defender of states’ rights and Virginia’s interests, despite his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and vigorous defense of the young republic’s sovereignty. Some historians claim he was particularly hostile to the New England...
Lincoln's Political Generals
The Battlefield Performance of Seven Controversial Appointees
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Lincoln’s most controversial generals—his so-called “political generals”—were appointed, promoted or kept in service for political purposes without regard for their competence. “It seems but little better than murder,” the Army’s general in chief, Henry Halleck, protested, “to give...
William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory
A Civil War Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This is the first biography of Union General William S. Rosecrans in more than fifty years. It tells the story of his military successes and the important results that led to the Union victory in the Civil War: winning the first major campaign of the war in West Virginia in 1861; victories in northeastern...
Eminent Charlotteans
Twelve Historical Profiles from North Carolina's Queen City
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Inspired by the 2010 “Spirit of Mecklenburg”—a bronze statue of Captain James Jack, “the South’s Paul Revere,” in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina—this history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to...
"In her hour of sore distress and peril"
The Civil War Diaries of John P. Reynolds, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the “Salem Zouaves” (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company’s service during the early months of the Civil War. His diary documents his company’s hourly activities each day, forming a rare chronicle of a Union...
U.S. Colored Troops Defeat Confederate Cavalry
Action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Wilson’s Wharf was the first major clash between U.S. Colored Troops and the Army of Northern Virginia. The 1st and 10th USCT infantry regiments, supported by two cannon and two U.S. Navy gunboats, faced 11 detachments of veteran Confederate cavalry who were under orders to “kill every man.”...
The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro
The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Drawing upon more than 200 eyewitness accounts, this work chronicles the largest troop surrender of the Civil War, at Greensboro—one of the most confusing, frustrating and tension-filled events of the war. Long overshadowed by Appomattox, this event was equally important in ending the war, and is...
The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet
The Fates of the Ships and Those Aboard, December 8, 1941-February 5, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.S. naval forces. Their fate in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies was often grim—many...
The Liberty Ships of World War II
A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards,...
Before They Were Belly Dancers
European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as “belly dance.” Eyewitness accounts written by European travelers, the major primary...
by Christopher P. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago’s soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity,...
Radio Journalism in America
Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves....