Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War, Paperback - Brian Taylor

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

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...

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

The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

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. 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...

The Times No. 3 Bestseller A Waterstones 'Book You Need to Read in 2022' The definitive history of the North of England as told through the lives o...

How the military used sleep as a weapon-and how soldiers fought back

This book fills a gap in existing scholarship by providing a theoretically rich, global examination of the operation and reform of military courts ...

This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history fro...

This book represents the first international investigation of military recruitment advertising, public relations and propaganda. Comprised of eleve...

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

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

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate arm...

Reducere. We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua...

Provides an original consideration of the militarization of schools in the United States and explores the prolonged battle to prevent the military ...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

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. Was Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to ...

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

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

Reducere. 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 ...

Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that...

The international controversy over who owns antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are ...

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

Reducere. Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding 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. DescriptionBicycling Gettysburg National Military Park: The Cyclist's Civil War Travel Guide is the one-and-only book that you need to bicycle the ...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Late on the night of O...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

This is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to B...

Reducere. Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857 and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity, Franklin Pierce during the Civ...

Reducere. Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships, " but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada...

For fans of The Century Girls and The Bletchley Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopN...

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...