Lincoln's Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle Over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era, Paperback - Paul D. Escott

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up t...

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

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

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...

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

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...

Reducere. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to t...

Reducere. Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorou...

Reducere. When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great ``Arsenal of Democracy, `` Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its in...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate MasurAn Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's mos...

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

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Reducere. "The war is still raging. And Gene Nichol]'s still fighting." --John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chan...

Reducere. Abraham Lincoln's two great legacies to history--his extraordinary power as a writer and his leadership during the Civil War--come together in this...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, t...

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Joel (Queens College, USA) SpringIllustration(s): 15 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Tables, black and ...

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the con...

This edited collection represents the latest scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion, pertaining to institutional policies, practices, d...

Illustrates how diverse the Republican forces were, drawn from loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejected the appeal of rebel generals, a ran...

Reducere. In May 1915, Ernest Blythe was appointed as an organiser for the Irish Volunteers by Volunteer headquarters and was sent to Clare to train the Cloo...

Reducere. A collective biography about five musicians and groups at the height of their careers, whose passion and talent influenced the Civil Rights Movemen...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 159 x 275 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--...

Reducere. In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Amer...

Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester' celebrates the struggle for the recognition of female rights, the centenary of female suffrage and the 90th an...

Personal recollections, newspaper articles, new photos and material from the archives detailing the lives of women in Halifax from 1800-1950, throu...

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Reducere. A chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official governmen...

Drawing on the latest research and established sources, A Sword for Christ offers a new and stimulating perspective on the 15-year period between 1...

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

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

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