Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carleton YoungImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Face...

Publisher: Feral House, U.S.Author(s): Bill AspinwallIllustration(s): 33 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitm...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized meets Alan Weisman's The World Without Us in this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that takes a fi...

Reducere. Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely asso...

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. instead, he c...

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today."What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to chall...

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...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

Reducere. Eleven years of events can have a profound effect on an entire lifetime. The story of Stanislawa Emilia (Emma) Krasowska Serbinski is told by her d...

A sharp, funny and deliciously gossipy guide to the glory days of advertising in 1960s New York - an inspiration for the hit TV series MAD MENPubli...

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100...

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...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan DerrickNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 214 x 34Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secret...

Low-intensity conflict (LIC) often has been viewed as the wrong kind of warfare for the American military, dating back to the war in Vietnam and ex...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

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

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

A history of the making and printing of news.Illustrations: 20 illustrations

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. One of the most important Confederate generals of the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the man Robert E. Lee called his "old war ...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

This book examines through historical and archaeological research the sieges of Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury during th...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Reducere. Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Aw...

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

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Publisher: Cinebook LtdAuthor(s): Richard MarazanoIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2021Dimensions...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Cinebook LtdAuthor(s): Richard MarazanoIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

This is a beautiful study of the rich history of our food, its fads and its fashions to be combined with a practical cookbook of over xxx recipes f...

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

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

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, p...

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writin...

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. During the winter of 1863-1864, 1, 200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of th...

Maddy Rose lives in two worlds. A hundred years apart. In the same strange house built as an octagon. When a mysterious black cat leads her into it...

Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state ...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

Reducere. Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed sati...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

Reducere. Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and art...

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