West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free, Hardcover - Mark A. Snell

Reducere. The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents ser...

Reducere. About the AuthorRosemary V. Hathaway is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, where she teaches folklore, American literat...

Reducere. The Last of the Poor Boys is the entertaining and exciting story of a coal mine camp boy that grew up in the "hills and hollers" of West Virginia d...

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to...

The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. The authors chronicle these event...

This is the story of a place, and a war. It makes sense that this area would be of utmost significance in the Civil War, as it sits on the spot whe...

Reducere. The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal depos...

Reducere. Bobby Bowden, former West Virginia head football coach: "Chip, at first I didn't think you could get enough material to make a great story. But aft...

Reducere. With an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner ...

Reducere. (Note: The limited deluxe edition of Mapping Virginia has sold out.) As one of the chief gateways to the earliest exploration and settlement of the...

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Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

Reducere. In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

Reducere. George Washington may be the most famous American who ever lived, and certainly is one of the most admired. While surrounded by myths, it is no myt...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more than a year...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

The Irish Civil War was contested as bitterly in Clare as in any other part of Ireland. The pattern of the war in the country was similar to the mi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrea PinkneyEach of us has a silent thunder a quiet desire that rumbles from deep-down. For eleven-year-old Summer and he...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

Their nickname was the Bloody First, given to them in recognition of their courageous conduct and supreme sacrifice in battle. In the midst of the ...

Reducere. The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving...

Reducere. When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, w...

Reducere. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

In the long and bitter prelude to war, southern transplants dominated California government, keeping the state aligned with Dixie. However, a murde...

Reducere. Wisconsin troops fought and died for the Union on Civil War battlefields across the continent, from Shiloh to Gettysburg. Wisconsin lumberjacks bui...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

Reducere. DescriptionThe two great commentaries of Julius Caesar - the Gallic War and the Civil War - are united in this superb hardcover edition. The commen...

Reducere. DescriptionDonegal was one of the counties used to launch this offensive against the newly established government in the six counties. The bulk of ...

DescriptionA wife tells a 101st Airborne paratrooper's story of his WWII experiences in Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne. Together, the Snell's crea...

Reducere. In the town of Broad Run, West Virginia...Vance Archer and Marybeth Wilkins, a pair of adventurous seventh graders, have discovered an exciting act...

Reducere. William Frazer, a descendant of the Scottish Highland Clan Fraser of Lovat, came to America in the 1720s, settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The...

DescriptionMary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring introduces an exciting interactive series for middle grade readers--Spy on History, where the rea...

DescriptionThe War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Con...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

" A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Ca...

Reducere. The Second American Civil War Has Begun The deck is stacked against twenty-nine-year-old Ava. She's a fighter, but she's got trust issues and doesn...

Reducere. Virginia's General: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War, Paperback

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

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Reducere. Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-sha...

Reducere. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West (1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play Sex in 19...

Reducere. DescriptionOutskirts Press releases new Civil War book by celebrated author Dr. Virginia Lohmann Nodhturft. This is the first and only published bo...

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...