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by Stanley Harrold
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019
Abraham Lincoln has often been called the “Great Emancipator.” But he was not among those Americans who, decades before the Civil War, favored immediate emancipation of all slaves inside the United States. Those who did were the abolitionists—the...
The Lines that Divide America
Race, Protests, and Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
White police officers killing black men, protesters taking over college campuses, streets, and cities claiming injustice and demanding change. It seems unreal that officers are behaving the way the headlines allege, the events make us feel like the civil rights era has returned with social media and...
by Joshua L.Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
"Abraham Lincoln: A View from the Field" by Joshua L. Chamberlain is an look at President Lincoln as a man and as a president faced with a tremendous challenge----an insurrection of states----and no clear path to pursue under existing constitutional law.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain...
by Mary Frances Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An...
The Loyal Republic
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights....
Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James...
by Vanessa Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of...
The Greatest and the Grandest Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
In this volume ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
This is a fascinating and comprehensive history of the use of federal troops during instances of domestic disorder from the U.S. Army. Domestic disorders were very much on the minds of the Constitution's framers when they met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. In fact, as students of the period...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston,...
Civil Engineering Solutions
An Innovative Guide to advanced civil engineering concepts
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Engineering, Medical, Chartered Accounting and Law are a few professions that are considered to be good for one’s status, salary and other perquisites. But, just managing one’s admission into professional institutions does not make a person successful professionally.This book has eleven levels. The...
The Butler's Child
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis M. Steel explores why he, a privileged white man, devoted his life to seeking racial progress in often uncomprehending or hostile...
Shepherdstown in the Civil War
One Vast Confederate Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. Marching armies, sounds of battle and fear of war had arrived on their doorsteps by the summer of 1862. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 brought thousands of wounded...