19th-century American History – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 3

Alan Taylor
American Civil Wars

In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's t…

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Wildness

In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydi…

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Carol R Gardner
The Divided North

Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from o…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Marion Ransell Dobbins
The Lost Black Communities of Merrifield, the Pines and Williamstown

After the Civil War, Black landownership in Fairfax County increased by leaps and bounds.By the 1870s, retired Union officers were purchasing land that they sold to African Americans like Joshua Ball, Jos…

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Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Nannie Helen Burroughs

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonateAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career…

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Damon L Fordham
Black Folk Tales and Chronicles of South Carolina

Throughout history, African Americans passed along folk tales to ease burdens and make sense of experiences. Tracing back to West Africa, this storytelling tradition provided laughter, instruction and res…

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Jere Nash
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional …

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Jaap Jacobs
A Firm Peace and Sincere Friendship?

For four centuries, people from the Netherlands have gone to America by boat or plane, to explore the country, to trade, to colonise, to settle, to do business, to find a new future or simply to visit the…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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W Fitzhugh Brundage
A Fate Worse Than Hell

It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War but less well known is that roughly 400,000 were captured and imprisoned-a milestone in the history of mass dehumanisation. Many …

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Larry E Morris
Guns, Furs, and Gold

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorer…

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Anon171
Untitled 171

"A historical account of wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew, whose espionage for Abraham Lincoln and the Union helped win the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

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Prager University
The Honest Book of Presidents

America's most trustworthy resource delivers a refreshing guide to the American presidency.Only forty-five men have held the title President of the United States. In this concise yet powerful volume, Prag…

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Peter Cozzens
Deadwood

The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane t…

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James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

In 1877 Schultz went to Montana for the summer to buffalo hunt. He ended up staying and joining the Blackfeet tribe. He wrote stories that faithfully recorded their culture. These great legends of the Bla…

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David Mckean, M Todd Bennett
The Flag Was Still There

A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birthAmerica is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly …

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Lauretta Malloy Noble, Leeanet Noble
Black, White, Colored

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy---an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the tur…

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