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

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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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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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 porticos, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the dismal American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows in In the Shadow the Gr…

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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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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 than the war's death toll are the roughly 400,000 who were captured and imprisoned-a milestone in the histor…

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Eran A Zelnik
American Laughter, American Fury

"This work demonstrates how so-called "comical" practices, including not only jokes but also carnivalesque misrule, playing Indian, and wearing blackface helped white men cast "America…

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Larry E Morris
Guns, Furs, and Gold

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

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Kathleen M Byrd
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840

Kathleen M. Byrd's Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840 is an examination of one French Creole community as it transitioned from a fur-trading and agricultural settlement under the control of Spain to a cri…

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Alicestyne Turley
The Gospel of Freedom

"Wilbur H. Siebert published his landmark study of the Underground Railroad in 1898, revealing a secret system of assisted slave escapes. A product of his time, Siebert based his research on the acco…

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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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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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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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James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

James Willard Schultz writes of the great legends of the Blackfeet Indians. Married to a Blackfeet woman and inducted into the tribe his first hand experiences will leave you intrigued and wanting more.

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Catherine Osborne Decesare
Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Using the experiences of the American ship, John Jay, and the British warship HMSDriver, this book recounts the various hazards faced by U.S. neutral trade vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.The John Jay'…

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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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