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by Steven A. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe's major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city...
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil
Politicians Against Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of...
Lee's Last Retreat
The Flight to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events...
The Senator and the Sharecropper
The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a...
Shenandoah 1862
Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive...
by James Marten
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships,...
Omaha Beach
A Flawed Victory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one. A direct infantry assault against a defense that was years in the making, undertaken in daylight following a mere thirty-minute bombardment, the attack had neither the advantage of tactical surprise nor that of overwhelming firepower. American forces...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries....
Bonds of Union
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial...
Lincoln’s Proclamation
Emancipation Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the president's...
Joining Places
Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away,...
Let the People Decide
Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.
Sunflower...
When the Yankees Came
Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential...
Auschwitz
True Tales From a Grotesque Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the...