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A Field Guide to Antietam
Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this engaging, easy-to-use guide, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler...
Two Troubled Souls
An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached...
The Woodwright's Companion
Exploring Traditional Woodcraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow...
Religion and the Racist Right
The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right (1994), Barkun provided the first sustained exploration of the ideological...
The Harpsichord Owner's Guide
A Manual for Buyers and Owners
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems,...
by Federal Writers' Project, Regional Staff
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief.
Originally published 1939.
A UNC Press Enduring...
The Darkest Days of the War
The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive--the only coordinated Confederate attempt to carry the conflict to the enemy--was disastrous. The results at Antietam and in Kentucky are well known; the third...
The Supreme Court and Legal Change
Abortion and the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs,...
Facing a Holocaust
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.--Central European History
"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well.--Jan...
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume II
New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition, and magnificent . . . in its achievement. The author's command of the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly orchestrated and rich with insight. . . . Deploying an avalanche of evidence. . . Rahe shows how alien the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays AEMDNMOin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and...
Adventure Carolinas
Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Have you ever wanted to take up a new outdoor sport but thought, "Not me" or "Where do I begin"? In this unique take-it-with-you guide, outdoors and fitness writer Joe Miller introduces you to sixteen adventure sports in the Carolinas, from water to land and through all four seasons. No matter where...
Writers in Retrospect
The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills--from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism...