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Sickles at Gettysburg
The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review).
Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award
Winner...
Democracy and the American Civil War
Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...
by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.
Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’...
Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course...
Roy Wilkins
The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Roy Wilkins (1901--1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organization for more than twenty years. Under his leadership, the NAACP spearheaded efforts that contributed to landmark civil rights legislation,...
by Sam Cacas
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Far too often, the traditional Black-white paradigms of race relations in America have ignored the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to the U.S. civil rights movement. Academic classes that cover civil rights at all levels of American education have left out seminal cases such as the first...
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet
Burt Green Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve...
Courage to Dissent
Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African Americans in Atlanta questioned...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Includes pictures of Porter Alexander and other Civil War generals, as well as maps of important battles.Includes Alexander's descriptions of important battles, including Gettysburg, and his analysis of them from his memoirs.Includes a Bibliography for further reading.Includes a Table of Contents.In...
by William Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The smoke of cannon fire and the sound of rifles were not seen or heard in Newburyport, Massachusetts during the Civil War yet it was an all too familiar experience for many of its inhabitants. Local author William Hallett describes in thrilling detail the lives and deeds of those from the Clipper City...
Baseball in Blue and Gray
The National Pastime during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 1
The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War tells stories about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the era of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential term and the Civil War. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons....
Civil War Memories
Nineteen stories of battle, bravery, love, and tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Civil War Memories is a collection of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800's, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history and in the lives of those who lived through it.
by Enrico Caterini
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 24, 2018
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Daniela Durante
Il nuovo art. 603 bis c.p. alla luce della sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo Chowdury e altri c. Grecia: la nozione di “lavoro forzato” tra legislazione interna e interpretazione evolutiva della Corte di Strasburgo.
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