Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, Paperback - Chad L. Williams

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

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

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. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only lim...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witn...

Reducere. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that follow...

Reducere. This encyclopaedic volume, including 1500 species and 650 illustrations, shows the diversity of mycoflora throughout all of northeastern North Amer...

DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I - Mark Ethan Grotelueschen

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

Reducere. The Kentuckian's of the Confederate ArmyThe Orphan Brigade was the nickname given to the First Kentucky Brigade―the largest brigade to be recruited...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Lindsey FitzharrisNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 37Cover type: HardbackRe...

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

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 ...

Reducere. Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. T...

The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Succes...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Description The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous ...

A short history of Canadian soldiers in the First World War, illustrated with photos and war art from the Group of Seven

Reducere. Not everyone in the U.S. military was rooting for America.In 1942, in its rush to assemble a force of seven million to take on the Axis powers, the...

Reducere. In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain i...

In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the ch...

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topi...

Reducere. If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence--a brief but blo...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Reducere. This collection of heroic soldier's stories relays sobering accounts of combat on the Western Front during the First World War. Evocative and vivid...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer D. KeeneWorld War I explores the daily lives of the men and women who served the United States in the Great War. R...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - wh...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power?How did he legally become a dictator by using a democratic process?Or...

Preachers Present Arms is the result of many years of research in libraries, religious periodicals (including many obscure ones), newspaper clippin...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

Since antiquity, information has been used in conflict - to deceive, to demoralize, to sow fear. Not until the twentieth century, though, did infor...

Reducere. When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from steppi...

Reducere. Thomas L. Stewart joined the United States Marine Corps on June 22, 1917--just two months after America entered World War One. Private Stewart was ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Friederike (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Penn State Abington) B...

Reducere. This book presents a substantial introduction to the major methodologies, figures, and themes within African American theology. Frederick L. Ware e...