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Displaying records 31 through 40 of 1861 |
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $11.85
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: LeeAnna Keith
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.367
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Publication Date: 2008-01-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.
LeeAnna Keith's The Colfax Massacre is the first full-length book to tell the history of this decisive event. Drawing on a huge body of documents, including eyewitness accounts of the massacre, as well as newly discovered evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the fateful encounter, during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered, and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South. Keith also recounts the heroic attempts by U.S. Attorney J.R. Beckwith to bring the killers to justice and the many legal issues raised by the massacre. In 1875, disregarding the poignant testimony of 300 witnesses, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in U.S. v. Cruikshank to overturn a lower court conviction of eight conspirators. This decision virtually nullified the Ku Klux Klan Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871--which had made federal offenses of a variety of acts to intimidate voters and officeholders--and cleared the way for the Jim Crow era.
If there was a single historical moment that effectively killed Reconstruction and erased the gains blacks had made since the civil war, it was the day of the Colfax Massacre. LeeAnna Keith gives readers both a gripping narrative account of that portentous day and a nuanced historical analysis of its far-reaching repercussions.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nicholas Lemann
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2007-08-21
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: “An arresting piece of popular history.” —Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This began an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. |
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $8.87
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: G. J. A. O'Toole
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 1986-07
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Reading Level: 447
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Price: $5.95
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Sale: $2.55
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph Plumb Martin
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.34406092
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Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: A wide-eyed teenager during much of the Revolutionary War, Martin recounts in grim detail his harrowing confrontations with gnawing hunger, bitter cold, and the fear of battle. This invaluable memoir from an ordinary man in extraordinary times is "one of the best firsthand accounts of war as seen by a private soldier." — St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kristin L. Hoganson
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Blending gender, political, and foreign policy history, this groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. The author shows how gender concerns influenced political leaders and how gendered arguments helped shape turn-of-the-century debates over war and empire.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui
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Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.80711
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Publication Date: 2003-05
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: This book presents brief summaries and places in perspective key American men, women, and events from the post-Civil War era, through the course of the twentieth century, and concluding with today’s post 9/11 crisis. For more than a decade, titles in this handy, quick study series have helped many college freshmen and others taking introductory 101–level college courses. Designed to be compatible with virtually all standard textbooks in their target subjects, EZ–101 Study Keys outline and organize subject material so that it resembles classroom lecture notes taken by attentive students. As such, these books provide a general overview of course material, and are ideal for brush-up and review study sessions before taking examinations or writing class papers.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $27.95
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Manufacturer: National Learning Corp
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Plastic Comb
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Author: Jack Rudman
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Publisher: National Learning Corp
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371
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Publication Date: 2005-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $8.53
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Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Panzeri
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Publisher: Osprey Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 1995-09-11
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 July 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the Native Americans over the United States military. Disobeying orders, Custer followed a trail to a large encampment of Indians and, without determining the numbers he faced split his command into three groups and attacked. In the resulting chaos Custer and more than half the troops under his command were killed.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Walter Lafeber
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Edition: 35 Anv
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 457
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.60
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hans L. Trefousse
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.81092
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 463
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Description: A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination. Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (Library Journal).
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