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Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy
The Politics of Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.
Following on the heels of other Civil Rights movements, disability rights laws emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Often these laws were more symbolic than precise in terms of objectives and strategies...
by Major Dale E. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
One of the most significant areas of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War occurred along the Missouri-Kansas border. Many of these guerrilla forces had been active during the Bleeding Kansas period and continued their activities into the Civil War supporting the Confederacy. The guerrillas...
Contract Law
An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book gives an introduction to the English law of contract. The third edition has been fully updated to cover recent developments in case law and recent statutes such as the Consumer Rights Act 2015. However, this new edition retains the primary focus of the earlier editions: it is designed to...
Gain-Based Damages
Contract, Tort, Equity and Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
On July 27,2000 the House of Lords delivered a decision where, for the first time in English law, it explicitly recognised that damages for civil wrongs can be assessed by reference to a defendant (wrongdoer)'s gain rather than a claimant's loss. The circumstances in which such gain-based damages...
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace
Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace, Yasuhiro Katagiri offers the first scholarly work to illuminate an important but largely unstudied aspect of U.S. civil rights history -- the collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship between professional anti-Communists in the North and...
Civil War Charlotte
The Last Capital of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Though always an important North Carolina city, Charlotte truly helped to make history during the Civil War. The city's factories produced gunpowder, percussion caps, and medicine for the Confederate cause. Perhaps most importantly, Charlotte housed the Confederate Naval Ordnance Depot and Naval Works,...
Arkansas Civil War Heritage
A Legacy of Honor
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The American Civil War shaped the course of the country's history and its national identity. This is no less true for the state of Arkansas. Throughout the Natural State, people have paid homage and remembrance to those who fought and what was fought for in memorial celebrations and rituals. The memory...
Louisville and the Civil War
A History & Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Learn how a thriving antebellum city became a crucial outpost for the Union army while its citizens were besieged with constant fear of guerilla warfare and swift Rebel vengeance. Trace the steps of soldiers, commanders and civic leaders on the enclosed map, which includes over thirty Union forts...
The Quartermaster
Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely—and most uncelebrated—genius” (The Wall Street Journal)—General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and Edwin Stanton to be the indispensable architect of the Union victory.
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Louisiana Native Guards
The Black Military Experience During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the...
My Old Confederate Home
A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
In the wake of America's Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men who fought for the Confederacy trudged back to their homes in the Southland. Some -- due to lingering effects from war wounds, other disabilities, or the horrors of combat -- were unable to care for themselves. Homeless, disabled, and...
by Bruce D. Heald Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
In the course of history, few human events have had so compelling an effect and left such a deep mark on the nation's soul as has the Civil War. New Hampshire in the Civil War presents a unique and concise pictorial chronicle of the state's volunteer regiments that served during the four very long and...
by Ronald Paul Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Wisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks built a dam that saved a stranded Union fleet. The Second Wisconsin Infantry suffered the highest percentage of battle deaths in the Union army. Back home,...
by Charles Harding Firth
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Parallel between the English and American Civil Wars Is a lecture on the historic parallels of both civil wars.