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The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
**In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism.
A Penguin Classic**
The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi's birth, and Penguin...
New York Jews and the Civil War
The Beginnings of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Civil War, a watershed event in American history, marked a climactic moment in the history of New York’s Jewish community. Jews served and died on the battlefield, attended to wounded soldiers, sewed uniforms for soldiers and mourned the death of their President with as much depth as the Christian...
by Leonard L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the...
All the Laws but One
Civil Liberties in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security.
Abraham Lincoln,...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
WHY THE SOUTH LOST
What led to the downfall of the Confederacy? The distinguished professors of history represented in this volume examine the following crucial factors in the South’s defeat:
ECONOMIC—RICHARD N. CURRENT of the University of Wisconsin attributes the victory of the...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The men had been marching for days, it seemed. It was late June in the year 1863, and they had been fighting for a long time. These Union soldiers were serious men and they recognized how important it was for them to keep fighting this war. Even so, there were times when it wasn’t easy. In their...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...
Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest...
Three Years With Grant
As Recalled by War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
During the Civil War, Sylvanus Cadwallader, a war correspondent employed first by the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, was attached to General Grant’s headquarters from 1862 to 1865. Three Years with Grant is his account of that period.
As a portrait of Grant, the personality...
Commanders of the Civil War
Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. The select group of forty-four...
Freedom in the World 2011
The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 194 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers,...
Suffrage Reconstructed
Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment’s authors made this decision....
by Jamie J. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the Civil Rights Movement—arguably the most important political movement of the 20th century—and provides a road map for future study and historical inquiry.
• Provides a chronology that traces the unfolding of the subject...
A More Noble Cause
A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and...