Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps, Paperback - Amy Murrell Taylor

Reducere. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 234 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

Reducere. Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices ...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Nerea Amoros ElorduyIllustration(s): 65 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 218Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 21...

Reducere. Two classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single editio...

Publisher: Stackpole BooksAuthor(s): Scott HippensteelIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 264 x 21Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Lorrie (Univ...

Reducere. On September 17, 1862, the forces of Major General George B. McClellan and his Union Army of the Potomac confronted Robert E. Lee's entire Army of ...

The reader is introduced to a little-known side of Custer--a deeply personal side. George Custer grew up in an expanding young country and his earl...

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Reducere. FOOD BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER.It says, this is who we are, this is our culture.Recipes for Refuge is a delicious and unique collection offering reade...

Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War's Bloodiest Combat, Hardcover

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Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting IPV in IMR lives.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAu...

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

Journeys through Emerging Adulthood takes the reader on a tour of contemporary transitions to adulthood, reporting on the latest cross-national and...

This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times, reflecting on the...

The latest book by preeminent Civil War artist and historian Don Troiani features 34 major paintings of the Gettysburg campaign and an introductory...

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...

DescriptionGrounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives...

Reducere. This combined narrative and documentary collection is the most complete account yet published of the greatest battle that cavalry fought without in...

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Reducere. In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies converged on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the cent...

A brilliant new narrative on sleep deprivation - its causes and effects - through the case studies of one of the world's leading experts.

Reducere. In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

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Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service takes an idea on an ear-opening and mind-expand...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Devon W. CarbadoNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 156 x 228 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softb...

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around th...

Reducere. "For cavalry and/or Gettysburg enthusiasts, this book is a must; for other Civil War buffs, it possesses the qualities sought by students of the co...

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auc...

Reducere. A collection of memories about the Cuban exile experience of the mid-20th century. These narratives are a testament to the courage, perseverance, a...

Gilroy examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and especially in th...

One summer's night in 1946, over 1, 000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...

Reducere. Around the world communities that have suffered the trauma of unspeakable violence--in Liberia, Somalia, West Africa, Columbia, and elsewhere--are ...

Reducere. From the birch to the willow, Sharlyn Hidalgo invites you to walk in the footsteps of the druids and enrich your life with the sacred power of tree...

Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey ...

A memoir mapping the journey from atheism to faith, and how both connect with scientific discovery.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Dr Alist...

DescriptionRoman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape fu...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid cha...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jimi FamurewaNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 224 x 31Cover type: Hardbac...

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From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around th...

Reducere. In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling i...