The Civil War: A Narrative, Paperback

In Search of Honor: Rockland to Round Top, Paperback - Russell a. Dole

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In Search of Honor: Book II: Bowdoin, Paperback - Russell a. Dole

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In Search Of Honor begins the story of a young man's coming of age. With the passing of Maine Civil War hero Joshua L. Chamberlain in 1914, Benjami...

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American History, Volume 2: 1877 - Present, Paperback - Thomas S. Kidd

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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, Paperback - Daniel Wilkinson

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new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thir...

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The Town That Started the Civil War, Paperback - Nat Brandt

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The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864, Paperback - Gordon C. Rhea

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First Telegraph Line Across the Continent: Charles Brown's 1861 Diary, Paperback - Dennis N. Mihelich

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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, Paperback - William Garrett Piston

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A Concise History of Japan, Paperback - Brett L. Walker

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and wh...

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Holocaust: An American Understanding, Paperback - Deborah E. Lipstadt

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Modern Greece: From the War of Independence to the Present, Paperback - Thomas W. Gallant

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Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighti...

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Lincoln and His Generals, Paperback - T. Harry Williams

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Red Attack, White Resistance, Paperback - Peter Kenez

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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade, Paperback - Jeff Shesol

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Florida Pirates: From the Southern Gulf Coast to the Keys and Beyond, Paperback - James Kaserman

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The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Paperback - Harriet Ann Jacobs

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DescriptionNot only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slav...

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The Colonel's Dream, Paperback - Charles W. Chestnutt

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Written in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent rac...

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Wolves of Eden, Paperback - Kevin McCarthy

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Description1866. Dakota Territory. Red Cloud's coalition of tribes battles the U.S. Army to reclaim its hunting grounds in the Powder River Valley....

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The Swiss Reformation: The Swiss Reformation, Paperback - Bruce Gordon

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The Swiss Reformation was a seminal event of the sixteenth century which created a Protestant culture whose influence spread across Europe from Tra...

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American Transcendentalism: A History, Paperback - Philip F. Gura

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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Richard S. Newman

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DescriptionFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ra...

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A History of Japan, 1334-1615, Paperback - George Sansom

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Reducere. This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615 by the author of Japan: A Short Cultural History....

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The Canoe and the Saddle, Paperback - Theodore Winthrop

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The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya, Paperback - Frederic Wehrey

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Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated), Paperback - Solomon Northup

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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History, Paperback - Ted Steinberg

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, Paperback - Bill O'Reilly

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Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War, Paperback - Journal Of Modern European History

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Shadows, Paperback - Evie Yoder Miller

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The Conquest of Gaul, Paperback - Julius Caesar

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Between 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the recor...

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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People, Paperback - John Kelly

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New York City History, Paperback - Bob Swacker

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Etched in Granite: Historical Fiction Series, Paperback - Mj Pettengill

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Flight to Canada, Paperback - Ishmael Reed

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Reducere. Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined i...

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Rome: An Empire's Story, Paperback - Greg Woolf

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Nickel and a Prayer, Paperback - Jane Edna Hunter

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Reducere. Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American soci...

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America: The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition), Paperback - William J. Bennett

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A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated."The role of history is to inform, inspire, and ...

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Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982, Paperback - Jack Fritscher

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Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America, Paperback - Jim Auchmutey

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South Carolina Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - Federal Writers' Project

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Missouri Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - Federal Writers' Project

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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story, Paperback - Dean King

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Cotto Was King: Franklin - Colbert, Paperback - Rickey Butch Walker

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave, Paperback - Frederick Douglass

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Nell Cropsey and Jim Wilcox: The Chill of Destiny, Paperback - William E. Dunstan

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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People, Paperback - Carol Reardon

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Reducere. The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, i...

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Florida Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - ***

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The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

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Tennessee Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - ***

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Indiana Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - ***

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The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

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Maryland Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - Federal Writers' Project

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

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Ohio Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - Federal Writers' Project

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

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Monumental New York!: A Guide to 30 Iconic Memorials in Upstate New York, Paperback - Chuck D'Imperio

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Monumental New York highlights thirty of the most fascinating statues and memorials found throughout Upstate New York. D'Imperio leads readers thro...

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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880, Paperback - William G. McLoughlin

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Reducere. This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members we...

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Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South, Paperback - Brandi Clay Brimmer

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Reducere. In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil...

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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War, Paperback - Thomas B. Allen

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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, Paperback - Thomas McGuane

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A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real co...

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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James, Paperback - Bob Deans

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Reducere. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrum...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Paperback - Harriet Jacobs

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Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864, Paperback - Gordon C. Rhea

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Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

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Kaveena, Paperback - Boubacar Boris Diop

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate and deadpan...

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Life on the Mississippi, Paperback - Mark Twain

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Reducere. He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and mu...

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Ebb Tide: As Seen Through the Diary of Josephine Clay Habersham, 1863, Paperback - Josephine Clay Habersham

172,99 RON

First published in 1958, Ebb Tide tells the story of the Habersham family of Savannah during the Civil War. In her diary and her "Letter Book, " Jo...

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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom, Paperback - David F. Walker

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DescriptionA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based...

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