Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War - Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

Reducere. Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lowcountry between Charleston and Savannah...

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

Reducere. First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in t...

Reducere. Thomas B. Allen's follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells ...

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. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

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. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Fr mont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout and Indian fight...

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of t...

Reducere. Ambrose Everett Burnside made his mark in history as a famous battlefield commander during the American Civil War. Today, collectors of antique fir...

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Thi...

Reducere. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds...

Reducere. With this book you will learn that emotions are chemicals produced by how your brain is wired. Your brain's wiring and structure can be changed. Th...

A celebration of the contribution that birds made in the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas MiltonIllustration(s)...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ricardo PadronIllustration(s): 35 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimension...

But the drum of the New Model Army beat ever louder and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells...

Reducere. History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without histori...

The Sampson-Matthews print program was the largest public art project in Canadian history. Launched at the start of the Second World War, it lasted...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steve WozniakWith: Gina SmithBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, ...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Richard B IrwinNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War tells a different story - about a group of remarkable economists who used their skill...

A comprehensive and vivid account of the action on the Mississippi River during the Civil War.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s):...

Reducere. It's not hyperbole to say that no basketball coach has had the opportunity to influence as many young men as Fletcher Arritt. In forty-two years le...

The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. The authors chronicle these event...

Reducere. Similar in scope to H. H. Cunningham's Doctors in Gray, George Worthington Adams' Doctors in Blue, originally published more than forty years ago a...

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...

In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the US. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy in an attempt to f...

Reducere. The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal depos...

Reducere. The Boys of Company K shows how life was for the common soldier on the dangerous western prairies. The men faced the threat of hostile Indians, dis...