Alexander Gardner: 9 books

Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original...

Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1898 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This is an illustrated edition. Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (Gordana Khan) (1785–1877) was a traveller, soldier and mercenary. He travelled to Afghanistan and Punjub and served in various military positions in the region.  

*Includes nearly 35 pictures taken at Gettysburg in the days after the fighting and 12 pictures of important generals who fought there. Without question, the most famous battle of the Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Over those three days, nearly 8,000...

*Includes nearly 35 pictures taken at Gettysburg in the days after the fighting and pictures of important generals who fought there. *Includes over 30 pictures taken at Antietam in the days after the fighting. *Includes nearly 50 pictures taken during and after the Siege of Petersburg. *Includes nearly...

*Includes over 30 pictures taken at Antietam in the days after the fighting. The bloodiest day in the history of the United States took place on the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On September 17, 1862, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia fought George McClellans Army of the...

Fought over the course of four years, the Civil War pitted countrymen against countrymen, North versus South, friend against friend, and brother against brother. The photographs within these pages document the war that united America as one. These rare shots were taken in the middle of the...

The first-ever extensive biography of Tibet's most famous nonsectarian Buddhist lama Known as the “king of renunciates,” Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813–1899) forever changed the face of Buddhism through collecting, arranging, and disseminating the various lineage traditions of Tibet...

Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States. Rare reproductions from photographs selected from seven thousand original negatives taken under most hazardous conditions in the midst of one of the most terrific conflicts of men that world has even known, and in the earliest days of photography.

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...