Michigan's Civil War Citizen-General: Alpheus S. Williams, Hardcover - Jack Dempsey

Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent mi...

Reducere. Michigan Notable BooksWith lively narration, telling anecdotes, and vivid battlefield accounts, Michigan and the Civil War tells the story as never...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

America's single bloodiest day was at the Battle of Antietam, and Michigan played a prominent role. Discover the state's connections to the Lost Or...

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Reducere. Description"Hits the mark."--KirkusAn engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil Wa...

Reducere. The American Civil War, as told by General Ulysses S Grant, who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy. Origianl maps illustrate the ...

Hall of Fame middleweight prizefighter John Edward Kelly, better known as Nonpareil Jack Dempsey, was one of the most popular athletes in the Unite...

Reducere. Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itinerant preacher and appointed...

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

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

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins o...

Reducere. Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to...

When the State Fails. Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War - Tunde Zack-Williams

Reducere. The first military conflict to use iron-clad gunboats, metallic cartridges, and submarines, the Civil War also introduced such inventions as the te...

Reducere. Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially...

Reducere. Clint B. Geller (FNAWCC) examines the intersection of the American Civil War and American watch-making.Beginning with a definition of a "Civil War ...

Reducere. John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the tur...

Reducere. In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I: The Making of a Champion, by Adam J. Pollack is the most thorough and detailed book ever written about form...

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-befo...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbin...

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

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

London's mobilisation proved crucial to parliament's success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sourc...

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

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...

Reducere. Lew Wallace (1827-1905) won fame for his novel, Ben-Hur, and for his negotiations with William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, during the Lincoln Cou...

Reducere. Replete with the bizarre behavior of elevators, the numerous deaths of inhabitants and paranormal sightings by a writer in residence, Mayflower Apa...