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Displaying records 131 through 140 of 1861 |
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $18.95
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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jerome A. Greene
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1994-11-28
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Reading Level: 333
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Description: Shortly after Custer's defeat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Colonel Nelson A. Miles and his Fifth Infantry launched several significant campaigns to destroy the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne coalition in the Yellowstone River basin. Miles's expeditions involved relentless pursuit and attack throughout the winter months, culminating in the Lame Deer Fight of May 1877, the last major engagement of the Great Sioux War. Yellowstone Command is the first detailed account of the harrowing 1876-1877 campaigns. Drawing from Indian testimonies and many previously untapped sources, Jerome A. Greene reconstructs the ambitious battles of Colonel Miles and his foot soldiers. This paperback edition of Yellowstone Command features a new preface by the author.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $14.98
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Scott M. Thompson
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.83
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Publication Date: 2000-06
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Reading Level: 122
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Description: Chief Joseph's exhausted words of surrender, 'Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever', are the accepted end of the Nez Perce War of 1877, in which several bands of Nez Perce attempting to find a new home outside their diminished Idaho reservation clashed with the U.S. military (and occasionally other Indians) along the Clearwater and Big Hole Rivers, and finally at the foot of the Bear Paw Mountains. However, a number of Nez Perce escaped transportation to Indian Territory with Joseph and continued their flight to Canada, with perhaps a hundred eventually joining Sitting Bull's Lakota."I Will Tell of My War Story" reproduces, describes, and discusses a remarkable series of drawings by an anonymous Indian artist who fought with Chief Joseph and later reached Canada. The drawings, in red, blue, and black pencil, include portraits of principal participants in the war, battle scenes, and views of Nez Perce camp life and celebrations during the war and after. The drawings are preserved in a small pocket ledger labeled 'Cash Book' on the front, which was acquired by Indian Agent Charles D. Warner in the 1880s.It was willed by him to a family living in northern Idaho, and is now in the collection of the Idaho State Historical Society. Scott Thompson worked closely both with the owners and with members of the Nez Perce community in preparing his manuscript. Thompson's detective work and research methods to identify Nez Perce and other parties pictured in the Cash Book make fascinating reading. He is careful to point out what is speculation and what has been documented or attested to by experts on dress, weapons, ceremony, and other aspects of Native culture.The Cash Book drawings are unique in several ways. They are one of very few firsthand pictorial records of the Nez Perce War, representing an even scarcer record of this war as seen from the Indian viewpoint. They contain invaluable historical and ethnographic information not only explicit in the form of military and Native dress, regalia, and quite graphic battle scenes, but also implicit. The drawings reveal an important stage of cultural adaptation as shown by the mixture of white and Native goods combined in Nez Perce material culture during the 1870s and 1880s, and by the artist's assimilation of white/European drawing techniques such as texture and perspective. The artist combined these drawing techniques with Native art traditions to make exceptionally effective pictorial communications. Scott M. Thompson is an art teacher at Chase Middle School in Spokane, Washington.
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Price: $23.99
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Sale: $15.23
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Manufacturer: Walch Education
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Kollen
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Publisher: Walch Education
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Dewey Decimal Number: 370
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Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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Reading Level: 138
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Manufacturer: Atheneum
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: W. E. B. Dubois
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Publisher: Atheneum
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496073
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Publication Date: 1992-03
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Reading Level: 746
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Description: A distinguished scholar introduces the pioneering work in the study of the role of black Americans during the Reconstruction by the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. Reprint.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hyman Rubin
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Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.7041
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Publication Date: 2006-05
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: South Carolina Scalawags tells the familiar story of Reconstruction from a mostly unfamiliar vantage point, that of white southerners who broke ranks and supported the newly recognized rights and freedoms of their black neighbors. The end of the Civil War turned South Carolina’s political hierarchy upside down by calling into existence what had not existed before, a South Carolina Republican Party, and putting its members at the helm of state government from 1868 to 1876. Composed primarily of former slaves, the burgeoning party also attracted the membership of newly arrived northern "carpetbaggers" and of white South Carolinians who had lived in the state prior to secession. Known as "scalawags," these South Carolinians numbered as many as ten thousand—15 percent of the state’s white population—but have remained a maligned and largely misunderstood component of post–Civil War politics. In this first book-length exploration of their egalitarian objectives and short-lived ambitions, Hyman Rubin III resurrects the lives and careers of these individuals who took a leading role during Reconstruction. South Carolina Scalawags delves into the lives of representative white Republicans, exploring their backgrounds, political attitudes and actions, and post-Reconstruction fates. The Republicans succeeded in creating a much more representative and responsive government than the state had seen before or would see again for generations. During its heyday the party began to attract wealthier white citizens, many of whom were moderates favoring cooperation between open-minded Democrats and responsible Republicans. In assessing the eventual Republican collapse, Rubin does not gloss over disturbing trends toward factionalism and corruption that increasingly characterized the party’s governance. Rather he points to these failings in explaining the federal government’s abandonment of the party in 1876 and the Democrats’ reassertion of white supremacy.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $22.95
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Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.898
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Publication Date: 1987-08
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Reading Level: 328
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Douglas D. Scott::Patrick S. Willey::P. Willey
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Edition: 804
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 389
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $7.40
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Larry Sklenar
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 395
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Description: The image of the famous "last stand" of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has transmogrified into myth. We imagine the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. In "To Hell with Honor," Larry Sklenar analyzes and interprets the widely accepted facts underlying the popular depiction of Custer’s defeat. Approaching the subject with a fresh perspective, he offers wholly new conclusions about one of the most enduring puzzles in United States history--the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Burford Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frank Freidel
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Publisher: Burford Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 2002-02-25
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Indeed it was splendid for the American public, but for the Rough Riders and other soldiers it was as grim, dirty, and bloody as any other war.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Engs
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.541200496073
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Reading Level: 198
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Description: In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America "might have been." Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question.
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Displaying records 131 through 140 of 1861
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