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Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin StantonEdwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full...
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The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of KongoBetween the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines...
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The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the StreetMexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this history of the press and civil society, the cycle...
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Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical ScienceNearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools' access...
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting...
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Redemption: Carolina Basketball's 2016-2017 Journey from Heartbreak to HistoryThis is the story of a national championship that was a year in the making.Redemption: Carolina Basketball's 2016-2017 Journey from Heartbreak to History is a behind-the-scenes look at the Tar Heels' ride to the 2017 national title. Featuring never-before-published, exclusive photographs that will take...
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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American SouthIn the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over...
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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at...
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Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows...
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Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil RightsBetween 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face...
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Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam WarPopular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits...
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Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War IIWeaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments...
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus...
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Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of SpaceflightIt's the 21st-century and everything about the space industry is changing, and leading that charge are private sector companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, which are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use,...
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A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging And Overland Freighting Days on The Frontiers of Texas and MexicoA Texas Pioneer: Early Staging And Overland Freighting Days on The Frontiers of Texas and Mexico. Authored by August Santleben, Edited by I.D. AffleckAuthor: I. D. Affleck, August SantlebenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 12/20/2011Pages: 326Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.68dISBN: 9781468101096This...
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I Remember The Last War: (Original Version, Restored)"I was phenomenally lucky, so I will tell our story, will try to tell you something of what happened over there. There have been war books written by other men who were better writers than I-more fitted to place what they saw upon the...
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Graeagle - History of Mohawk Valley Including Clairville and JohnsvilleThis short history spans from early gold seekers during the gold rush in California, through the construction of the railroad, up to the current plans for the beautiful Mohawk Valley in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains.Author: C. L. NeelyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 11/17/2011Pages:...
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Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret GameWhen they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn't know whom they would play against. But when they came face...
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Chesapeake Outdoor Tales: Hunting and Fishing by the TidesJoin author and avid outdoorsman C.L. Marshall as he tells tales of the ups and the downs of outdoor life on the Chesapeake Bay.It's more often the failures rather than the successes that stick in the memories of outdoorsmen. Late September can bring some...
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The Florida Cracker Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Cabin to CondoFrom a one-story cabin in the piney woods of the Panhandle to a high-rise condo along the glistening waterways, Cracker cooking in Florida has evolved with our tastes and times.When supplies were limited and the workday arduous, black coffee with leftover cornbread might serve...
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