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Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian...
by George Grant, Michael Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Civil War—like all civil wars—was divisive, costly, and savage. More Americans died in this war than in World War I and World War II combined. Brother was pitted against brother and neighbor against neighbor. There are no civilians in a civil war and both sides’ scorched earth policies meant...
The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory
The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Why another book on the Iron Brigade? Because this is really the first book on this storied outfit—and it could not have been written without the lifetime of study undertaken by award-winning author Lance J. Herdegen. More than a standard military account, Herdegen’s latest puts flesh and faces...
The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War
The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"The single best kickoff to the American Civil War...I can't imagine a better guide for any of us, whether student or scholar."
-Robert Hicks author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Widow of the South
"A detailed and enjoyable set of facts and stories that will engage...
Smithsonian Civil War
Inside the National Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins...
by Ronald S. Coddington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of...
A History of Civil Rights Through Legislation: Constitutional Amendments, Laws, Supreme Court Decisions & Key Foreign Policy Acts
Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Complete Amendments, The Federalist Papers, Gettysburg Address, Voting Rights Act, Social Security Act, Loving v. Virginia and more
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based. From the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this edition contains 40 most important decisions and acts that shaped the legal system and democracy of the USA. Table...
Drawn with the Sword
Reflections on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes pictures of each general and important people, places, and events in their lives*Includes an introduction for each president*Includes a Table of Contents*Includes bibliographies for each presidentDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This unique compilation of three documents provides a fascinating look at the role of spies and intelligence in the conduct of the American Civil War.
The U.S. Army Military Intelligence History Sourcebook excerpt on the civil war covers many aspects of intelligence in the Civil War, including...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes maps of the battles. *Includes accounts of the fighting at Fort Sumter and First Bull Run by important generals and leaders who fought there. *Explains the causes and chain of events that led to the secession of Southern states and...
Civil Society in China
The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the "New Reform Era"
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day. Civil Society in China traces the ways in which laws and regulations have shaped civil society over the 5,000 years of China's history and looks at...
Stopping the Killing
How Civil Wars End
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Cambodia -- all provide bloody evidence that civil wars continue to have a powerful impact on the international scene. Because they tear at the very fabric of a society and pit countryman against countryman,...
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...