The Legacy of the Civil War, Paperback

Reducere. In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He con...

Reducere. After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. But when a childhood frie...

Reducere. Joshua Chamberlain was much more than a war hero, and Pullen's thoughtful book fills out the picture of his remarkable life. An entertaining and in...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

The American Civil War shaped the course of the country's history and its national identity. This is no less true for the state of Arkansas. Throug...

Create your own Civil War friendship quilt From best-selling author and quilt historian Barbara Brackman comes the fascinating story of Civil War f...

Description☆☆☆ American Civil War ☆☆☆Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, ...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for...

Reducere. Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau played host to some of the most dramatic military maneuvering of the Civil War. Straddling the entire state of Tenne...

The Hollows is gripped in unrest and on the brink of civil war as an insurgency of anarchists rise, and brother and sister vie for the throne in th...

The Hollows is gripped in unrest and on the brink of civil war as an insurgency of anarchists rise, and brother and sister vie for the throne in th...

The battle has been fought, and won-but at what cost? As Laura and Gabby attempt to move on with their lives, Wolverine's past seems destined to ca...

Reducere. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military act...

Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

Oliver CromwellOne of the most controversial figures in British History, Oliver Crowell entered the world as an insignificant member of the English...

Reducere. Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence o...

In this book - both history and biography, informative and entertaining, meant to be read all at once or in bite-sized chunks - historian Thomas Fl...

Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Book Prize and a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History I...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading After the Civil War, the fight for civil rights spawned a mult...

Reducere. A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE 1861. Two...

Reducere. Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Li...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these a...

Reducere. From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War. ...

Experience a brand-new kind of Iron Fist story, one steeped in legends and fables stretching back through the centuriesOrphaned as a child and rais...

Reducere. "A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world." --Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books From the two-time Booke...

Reducere. The Dragon War, an epic fantasy trilogy, tells of civil war in Requiem -- an ancient kingdom whose people can grow wings, breathe fire, and take fl...

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingDuring the Civil War, over 180, 000 black ...

Reducere. Following World War II, the United States embarked on the great social and financial experiment of suburbanization. While it created tremendous gro...

Reducere. After proving himself as a formidable cavalry commander, Marcus Antonius finally earns a position at his kinsman Julius Caesar's side. However, Cae...

Reducere. This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Be...

DescriptionIn honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied ...

Reducere. The sequel to the award-winning The Rose of York: Love & War Shakespeare claims Richard III murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, for the...

Reducere. Cincinnati earned its nickname of "Queen City of the West" with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth o...

Reducere. Warren's first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warr...

Reducere. The formula for C.F. Martin & Co. s success has always been an unparalleled commitment to precise handcraftsmanship blended with optimum tonewoods,...

Reducere. This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and qui...

At a time of war, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was caught in the crossfire between two nations. Hugh Fitzgerald proudly calls himself a "canawler....

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his free...

Reducere. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brian BlackWith: Richard B. MegrawAfter the American Revolution, sites representing key events in American history were cru...

Reducere. 2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Su...

Reducere. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after D...

Reducere. No single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time--and had such a devastating effect--as the AK-47 assault rifle. T...

Reducere. Limited power; extraordinary influence. The strategies, friendships, and enduring impact of a remarkable C14th noblewoman. Elizabeth de Burgh showe...

Reducere. In the vast sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho, Minidoka War Relocation Center had a short-lived and painful existence. The wartime operation incar...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

Reducere. The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of th...

Reducere. After the death of John Kennedy, LBJ and RFK were the dominant political figures of the 1960s, each fighting for the spotlight, each struggling to ...

Reducere. A new era of exciting adventures and shocking revelations continues to unfold, as the legendary Star Wars saga sweeps forward into astonishing new ...

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

Reducere. Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency o...

Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best...

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience f...

Reducere. Christopher AwardsIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illumina...

Oklahoma Book AwardHow many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Ha...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of...

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...

Reducere. Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's t...

Reducere. The Wars of Julius Caesar: Complete Works. He is often considered the greatest man in history. He invented strategy and changed the shape of the Ro...

Reducere. A monk must find a killer among a flood of religious pilgrims in this medieval mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author: "A series like no other" ...

Reducere. When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the ...

Reducere. The dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, 100 years late and ten times as brutal. To save all that he loves, ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it do...

Reducere. A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn Birds In this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCu...

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Reducere. Q: "You threw paving stones atthe cops]?" A: "Oh yeah. I had no problem doing that. And I threw marbles as well that we stole from stores. And towa...