Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, Paperback - James Oakes

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Reducere. On June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth, American slaves in Texas were informed that they had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a very important event ...

Reducere. Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

Reducere. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed ...

This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholar...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

Reducere. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confeder...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. There's simply no better getaway in the United States than a visit to one of the country's 62 national parks from Alaska to the Virgin Islands, fro...

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

A history of US public broadcasting, from its initial, idealist attempt to reshape television, to its current state - mediocre and as dependent on ...

Reducere. Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the...

Reducere. DescriptionGray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who-under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quant...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Reducere. The core of the global cultural revolution is the deliberate confusion of sexual norms. It is the culmination of a metaphysical revolution as well-...

The Upper South--Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia--was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil. Contending ar...

Reducere. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Wash...

This book provides a counter-view on the conventional wisdom regarding the United States Senate. Specifically, it presents an alternative approach ...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Provides a new history of the foreignowned auto sector in the US, the first to extensively draw on archival sources and to articulate the human age...

Reducere. This statistical report on the free Negro ownership of slaves was made possible in 1921 when the Director of the Association for the Study of Negro...

The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role while little has been written about specific lines.Publisher: Savas Bea...

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment available of how primary elections have contributed to the US political system for over a centu...

This is the first comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. Examini...

Reducere. This invaluable reference guide illustrates every standard automobile license plate issued in the United States, from 1903 to 1993. Author James K....

Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military historyPublisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages...

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: National Academies PressNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 226 x 153 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): K...

Reducere. The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Artic...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The R...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

Reducere. The Civil War changed the United States in many ways-economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. ...