The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, Paperback - Heather Cox Richardson

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

Reducere. On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek,...

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

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Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

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

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role o...

Reducere. Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Cox RichardsonWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to ...

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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...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman AwardFinalist, 2017-2018 Founders Award, American Civil War MuseumFinalist for Memoir, Historical, 2018,...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps ...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Polit...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

Reducere. Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraint...

"Reconstruction after the Civil War "explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and cont...

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...