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by Kenneth J. Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom.
In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg’s boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg’s hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery...
Civil War Four Pack (Illustrated)
Andersonville, Co. Aytch, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Life of General Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Civil War Four Pack presents four key primary texts for Civil War buffs and historians:
Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy - A private soldier’s experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear...
Fighting in the Shadows
Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang’s groundbreaking study of deaf people’s experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, Fighting in the Shadows reveals the stories of deaf soldiers and civilians who lived through this transformative period in American history....
1861
The Civil War Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.
An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known...
by María Leoba Castañeda Rivas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Esta obra se ocupa del estudio de doscientos años de Derecho Civil en México partiendo de los antecedentes de dos vertientes históricas: por un lado, la tradición del mundo occidental, de la cual somos herederos directos a través del Derecho español; y por el otro, la tradición precolombina...
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.
Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
*Includes pictures of Hood, Thomas, and important people, places, and events.*Includes maps of major battles they fought in.*Includes quotes from Hood's memoir describing his fighting in major battles like Antietam and Gettysburg.*Discusses the relationship between Thomas and Hood. The lives and legacies...
by Josie Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840--1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins...
A Massacre in Memphis
The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the...
by Duane Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
D U A N E is an amateur photographer who still prefers a fi lm camera over a digital one when he takes pictures of American Civil War reenactments. He lives in El Paso with his wife Vinita, and they have six children. He enjoys reading, history and organizing material for a book. He likes to travel,...
by Joseph T. Wilson, Annie Heloise Abel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known as they should be: African-Americans and Native Americans.
The two complete works included...
Father Abraham's Children
Michigan Episodes in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The Civil War was the largest and bloodiest conflict ever waged upon American soil, and while no fighting took place in Michigan, both the hardship of the war effort and the heroism of Michigan men at war touched residents deeply. In Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War, Frank...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC.
SHORT STORY #26. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964—Equal Employment...
by Mike Bunn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital...