Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War, Paperback - Stanley Harrold

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass "Readers expecting hoop-skirted l...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

Reducere. Macavity Award"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." --Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning au...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

Reducere. Written in the form of a letter to her granddaughter, the author of this little book describes her plantation childhood, her marriage and parenthoo...

DescriptionWinner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardA New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018 "Excellent......

DescriptionThe first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting ...

Reducere. This book presents an original new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, prior to the events that produced W...

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...

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Reducere. The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you've been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historia...

Reducere. Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

Reducere. DescriptionNOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans....

DescriptionMost general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grand...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. Originally published in 1948, this WWII division history has long been out-of-print. It remains today the definitive WWII history of the "Buckeye D...

Reducere. DescriptionAn introduction the civil war for young readers.This book introduces readers (Grades 3-5) to the American Civil War, detailing the war's...

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. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

A remarkable private collection formed over the last thirty years is the focus of this richly illustrated book that introduces the reader to Englis...

Reducere. A moving personal narrative in the form of a journal, this powerful poem tells the story of one boy's journey into war--and the horrible climax at ...

Reducere. Based on Historical Events...How far would America go to stop the communists?French Indochina, 1945 - 1951. After several victories, the French Arm...

Reducere. Infinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a single v...

Reducere. A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: - Perpetual license - 24 hour, 7 days a week access...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingIllustration(s): full color and b-w photographs and illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 202...

A military history of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Focuses in detail on their performance as front-line soldiers.Illust...

Reducere. I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quart...

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...

Reducere. In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well...

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...

DescriptionThe Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the five works that chronicle the mil-itary campaigns of Julius Caesar. Together...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tiya MilesIn this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours, " frequently promoted and ...

Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Tom ColeIllustration(s): 273 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 190 x...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephanie FitzgeraldConsultant: Mark SnellIn 1861 the United States was at a crossroads. People in the Southern states beli...

The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in Ja...

Reducere. Too far north, the great state of Maine did not witness any Civil War battles. However, Mainers contributed to the war in many important ways. From...

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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Denise Lewis PatrickNumber of pages: 88Collection: If YouPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 189 x 230 x 11Cover...