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Justifying Revolution

Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence

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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legend. But America is not simply the invention of great men or the outcome of an inevitable political or social movement. The nation was the result of a hard,...

The Senate Syndrome

The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate

by Steven S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place...

The Battle of Lake Champlain

A "Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory"

by John H. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie, effectively ending the British invasion of the Champlain Valley during the War of 1812. This decisive battle...

Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories

Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies

by Adam Fortunate Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as “Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,” the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations...

Mexico

A History

by Robert Ryal Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015

This book is a skillful synthesis of Mexico's complex and colorful history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Utilizing his many years of research and teaching as well as his personal experience in Mexico, the author incorporates recent archaeological evidence, posits fresh interpretations,...

Special Operations in World War II

British and American Irregular Warfare

by Andrew L. Hargreaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive...

The Man Who Captured Washington

Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812

by John McCavitt, Christopher T. George
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

An Irish officer in the British Army, Major General Robert Ross (1766–1814) was a charismatic leader widely admired for his bravery in battle. Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814 campaign...

Climax at Gallipoli

The Failure of the August Offensive

by Rhys Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort against the Turks, is one of infamous might-have-beens. If only the Allies had held out a little longer,...

Kill Jeff Davis

The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864

by Bruce M. Venter, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016

  The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point...

Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees

A Narrative of Indian Captivity

by Sarah F. Wakefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity...

Before Custer

Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872

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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had warned the two surveying expeditions (eastern and western) not to enter the valley. But no one—certainly no Northern Pacific...

Valentine T. McGillycuddy

Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

by Candy Moulton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such...

Army Life on the Western Frontier

Selections from the Official Reports Made Between 1826 and 1845 by Colonel George Croghan

by Col. George Croghan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

From Fort Snelling on the upper Mississippi and Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri to Fort St. Philip below New Orleans, the string of military bases along the western frontier of the United States played an essential part in the orderly advance of settlement following the War of 1812. Small, isolated...

Back to the Blanket

Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies

by Kimberly G. Wieser
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven...
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