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Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban SouthViola Franziska Muller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by...
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January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, in January Moon, Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal--and appallingly brutal--event...
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The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East FloridaResurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its...
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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia CoastOne of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that...
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Pioneers of Promotion: How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketingvolume 5The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe...
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Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and BeyondWoven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as...
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum VirginiaIn Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South. There were several paths...
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Let No Guilty Man Escape: A Judicial Biography of Isaac C. ParkerPresiding from 1875 to 1896 over the United States Court for the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker attained notoriety as the "Hanging Judge" responsible for law and order in Indian Territory. Popular accounts have portrayed him as a jurist driven relentlessly...
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From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World RoleWhat turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power,...
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John S. "Rip" Ford: Texian HeroRip Ford was a bold, fearless combat leader, an expert pistoleer, and a master tactician who led hard-hitting cavalry charges against foes with far greater numbers. Ford was a ferocious warrior against the enemies of his beloved Texas, and from his first arrival in...
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Jesse James Soul Liberty, Vol. I, Behind the Family Wall of Stigma & SilenceAuthorized historical biography of the family of Frank & Jesse James, 1799-2000, drawn from primary family sources. Includes family photos, letters, documents, memoirs, interviews, genealogy, source citations, notes, and index. First of five volumes.Author: Eric F. JamesPublisher: Cashel Cadence HousePublished: 08/12/2012Pages: 412Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Troops with Custer: Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big HornNo one survived in Custer's immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in "Troopers with Custer"."...
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Part Of Our Time: Some Ruins And Monuments Of The ThirtiesThrough brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the...
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Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the ArgonneAlvin C. York (1887-1964)-devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I-is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the capture of...
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We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to TrumpWhen Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War--stories in which the...
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Army Spouses: Military Families During the Global War on TerrorAuthor: Morten G. EnderPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/19/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780813950051
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Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American CultureThe death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have...
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Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote WarfareDrone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? How do wars conducted by drone disrupt ideas of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if...
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Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish AmericanRomantic Young Irelander, republican revolutionary, father of the Irish tricolour and political exile, Thomas Francis Meagher became a citizen of the United States and a leading ethnic spokesman in his adopted republic. The first commanding general of the famed Irish Brigade during the American...
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A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, VirginiaIn the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal...
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