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Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole PortraitsTranslated and Edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the CrossIn Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans...
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America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil WarOne of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role of the federal government in protecting citizens' rights and promoting economic and racial justice in a heterogeneous society -- is still unresolved. America's Reconstruction...
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Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862--1877The U.S. Army faced extraordinary problems while policing the post-Civil War South, and the task may have been the most difficult in Louisiana, where Reconstruction lasted longer than in any other of the former Confederate states. Beginning with General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who boasted...
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Virginia Plantation HomesDavid King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. As the architectural historian Calder Loth states in his prefatory note, "Gleason's elegant photographs provide a seductive image of life in 'Old Virginia.' He presents one inviting house after another, complete with...
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Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861--1865Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who--under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson--plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil...
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Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish WomenFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1998 With Voices of the Matriarchs, Chava Weissler restores balance to our knowledge of Judaism by providing the first look at the Yiddish prayers women created during centuries of exclusion from men's observance. In Weissler's hands,...
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A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for StudentsThe first collection of King's essential writings for high school students and young people A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches--carefully selected by teachers across a variety of disciplines--in an accessible and user-friendly volume. Now, for...
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Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860-1880In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conflicts rocked the Americas: the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the War of the Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, and the Civil War in the United States. The recovery efforts that followed...
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Royal Descents of Judith Ivye, Wife of Anthony PraterThis is a significant addition to the literature of royal and noble genealogy. Author Thomas Benjamin Hertzel establishes conclusively that Judith Ivye (b. 1550, d. Feb. 6, 1578), wife of Anthony Prater and daughter of Thomas Ivye and his second wife, Elizabeth Malet, descends...
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Derry-Londonderry: Gateway to a New World. the Story of Emigration from the Foyle by Sail and SteamThis book, or booklet, by genealogist and Irish emigration expert Brian Mitchell recounts the history of departures from the port of Derry-Londonderry from the late 17th century to the year 1939, when the last transatlantic steamer sailed from the port. The author's brief narrative...
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Natchitoches Colonials, a Source Book: Censuses, Military Rolls & Tax Lists, 1722-1803The frontier outpost of Natchitoches was the oldest settlement in all the 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana Purchase. Natchitoches was built by France along the Texas border as a buffer against Spanish and Indian aggression. For the next century and a half, it...
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Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699. a Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for PoliticFrom every available source in the public archives of England, Peter Wilson Coldham, the foremost authority on English emigration records has put together a comprehensive list of emigrants who sailed to America between the years 1661 and 1699.Author: Peter Wilson ColdhamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublished:...
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West Point Points WestTo twenty-first-century observers, artistic training may seem an unnecessary frill in a soldier's education. But during the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications. Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring...
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Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and ConquestAs he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples...
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The Arapaho Way: Continuity and Change on the Wind River Reservation"The sun, the moon, the seasons, our Arapaho way of life," writes foreworder Jordan Dresser. "When you look around, you see circles everywhere. And that includes the lens Sara Wiles uses to capture these intimate moments of our Arapaho journeys." In The Arapaho Way,...
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Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, "Throw up your hands!" Shots rang out from inside...
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Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in OklahomaIn the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966). With Jacobson's instruction and friendship, the Kiowa Six, as they are now known, ignited a spectacular movement in...
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White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo ClarkBest known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was one of the Old Army's renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist....
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European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802, Volume 50Upon France's defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, "From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world's history." The pronouncement proved prescient, for this...
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Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970The years between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and the 1971 reemergence of the Cherokee Nation are often seen as an intellectual, political, and literary "dark age" in Cherokee history. In Stoking the Fire, Kirby Brown brings to light a rich array of writing that...
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