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by Indranil Goswami
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Don't Let the Real Test Be Your First Test!
Presented in the Breadth and Depth format of the actual exam, this comprehensive guide is filled with hundreds of realistic practice questions based on the Principles and Practice of Civil Engineering (PE-CIVIL) exam, given by the National Council of Examiners...
Civil Rights Litigation
Representing Plaintiffs Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Asserting our civil rights goes to the heart of what it means to be an American, but unfortunately, our property, liberty, and even life can be sacrificed when we exercise these fundamental rights. This book seeks to help lawyers, their clients, and the general public negotiate the field of civil rights...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
New England is the birthplace of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Here the Corps' military mission began at the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775. Here, too, civil works projects were among the first to be undertaken by Army Engineers when Congress and the President entrusted the Corps...
The Problem of Emancipation
The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History
While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation,...
Born along the Color Line
The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B....
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 2
June 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tom Watson Brown Book Award
John Fabian Witt
Civil War Historians and the Laws of War
Articles
Chandra Manning
Working for Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps
Michael F....
Rethinking the Civil War Era
Directions for Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War. This devastating and formative conflict occupies a permanent place in the nation's psyche and continues to shape race relations, economic development, and regional politics. Naturally, an event...
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?
Trump's War on Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement.
In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces...
by Robert L. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between Confederate and Union forces, much of the fighting in Missouri was an ugly form of terrorism carried out by loose bands of Missouri guerrillas, by Kansas...
by Michael Kreyling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses, or nations, their members set...
by Mark A. Swank, Dreama J. Swank
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
As a border state between the North and South during the Civil War, Maryland�s loyalties were strong for both sides. The first casualties of the war occurred during the Baltimore Riot of April 19, 1861, when members of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment were attacked by Confederate supporters while traversing...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes an original introduction for each leader.*Includes a bibliography for each leader.*Includes a Table of ContentsDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely discussed topics in America...
The Civil War in Arizona
The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the Civil War. But few realize that the Civil War was also fought far to the west of these sites. The westernmost battle of the war took place in the remote...
Extreme Civil War
Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
During the American Civil War the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions that created extraordinarily difficult conditions for both combatants and civilians. Matthew M. Stith's Extreme Civil War focuses on Kansas,...