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The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl (Illustrated Edition)
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...
Lighting the Fires of Freedom
African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
**Nominated for a 50th NAACP IMAGE Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author.
A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that plumbs the leadership of African American women in the...
Civil War Battlefields
A Touring Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks. Civil War Battlefields presents a detailed, clear narrative describing exactly what visitors can see and do in twelve important battlefield areas covering 22 campaigns and approxiamately 40 separate battles.
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regiment
Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a...
Demon of the Lost Cause
Sherman and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...
The Seventh West Virginia Infantry
An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War's Most Divided State
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Though calling itself “The Bloody Seventh” after only a few minor skirmishes, the Seventh West Virginia Infantry earned its nickname many times over during the course of the Civil War. Fighting in more battles and suffering more losses than any other West Virginia regiment, the unit was the most...
Rule Haiku
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are seen as technical, complicated, and even intimidating. Haiku is a form of poetry known for its simplicity. Rule Haiku: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure strips each rule contained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure down to its essence, and expresses that...
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri
The Long Civil War on the Border
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally...
by A.G. Noorani, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The civil rights of Indian citizens are guaranteed both in the Indian Constitution and through the State's international commitments. Despite these guarantees, the civil rights framework encounters numerous challenges from the State—problematic counter-terrorism laws, continuation of the death penalty,...
Racial Realignment
The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites—such as Lyndon...
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of...
Civil War Delaware
The First State Divided
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In the years preceding the Civil War, Delaware was essentially divided--as a slave state, it had many ties to the South, but as the first state to ratify the federal Constitution, it was fiercely loyal to the Union. With the outbreak of war, the First State rallied to Lincoln's call and sent proportionally...
by Brent E. Kinser
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, a central question for British intellectuals was whether or not the American conflict was proof of the viability of democracy as a foundation for modern governance. The lessons of the American Civil War for Britain would remain a focal point in the debate...
From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage
Interdisciplinary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform...