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Displaying records 51 through 60 of 1861 |
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.40
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Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael W. Fitzgerald
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Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 2008-09-25
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, revisionist historians have been sympathetic to the racial justice motivations of the Radical Republican Reconstruction policies that followed the Civil War. But this emphasis on positive goals and accomplishments has obscured the role of the Republicans in the overthrow of their own program. Rich with insight, Michael Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure describes the skill with which the postwar freedpeople pursued an agenda of racial justice, accurately perceiving that this was the only issue that mattered in the new South. But in acting on this insight-demanding representation in office and greater civil rights protections-they antagonized the Northern support they needed to survive, and fed a gathering racial backlash. Thus, Mr. Fitzgerald argues, Southern Republicans set the stage for the explosion that swept them from power and resulted in Northern acquiescence to the bloody repression of voting rights. The failed strategy offers a chastening example for present-day proponents of racial equality. American Ways Series.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.85
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Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven J. Diner
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1998-08-05
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: The early twentieth century was a time of technological revolution in the United States. New inventions and corporations were transforming the economic landscape, bringing a stunning array of consumer goods, millions of additional jobs, and ever more wealth. Steven J. Diner draws on the rich scholarship of recent social history to show how these changes affected Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life, and in doing so offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial epoch in our history.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $27.96
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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: Jerome A. Greene
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 2008-04-30
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the story. As park custodians, American Indians, and others have contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted for posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more ways than one. In Stricken Field, one of America's foremost military historians offers the first comprehensive history of the site and its administration in more than half a century.
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Price: $65.35
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Sale: $45.69
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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: Michael Holt
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7
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Publication Date: 2001-01
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Reading Level: 781
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Description: In this text on the American Civil War, Jean Baker discusses Southern society, slavery, the experiences of women and issues of class. Mike Holt has focused his attention on the post-war Reconstruction.
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Sale: $13.27
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kenneth M. Stampp
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.81
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Publication Date: 1967-10-12
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $6.10
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Garrett Epps
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2007-09-04
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: “Engaging . . . With a novelist’s eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an . . . enthralling book.”—David W. Blight, Chicago Tribune The last battle of the Civil War wasn’t fought at Appomattox by dashing generals or young soldiers but by middle-aged men in frock coats. Yet it was war all the same—a desperate struggle for the soul and future of the new American Republic that was rising from the ashes of Civil War. It was the battle that planted the seeds of democracy, under the bland heading “Amendment XIV.” Scholars call it the “Second Constitution.” Over time, the Fourteenth Amendment—which at last provided African Americans with full citizenship and prohibited any state from denying any citizen due process and equal protection under the law—changed almost every detail of our public life.
Democracy Reborn tells the story of this desperate struggle, from the halls of Congress to the bloody streets of Memphis and New Orleans. Both a novelist and a constitutional scholar, Garrett Epps unfolds a powerful story against a panoramic portrait of America on the verge of a new era.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $12.98
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Manufacturer: The History Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer::Foreword by Harlan Greene
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Publisher: The History Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 728.373089960730757915
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Publication Date: 2008-10-20
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Charleston's freedman's cottages are some of the most understudied and undervalued vernacular buildings in the city, found as far south as Council Street and as far north as North Charleston. Though these cottages have long been associated with African American history and culture, they in fact extend much further into the history and development of Charleston and deserve to be studied and understood. The predominant theory is that these tiny houses, often no larger than five hundred square feet, were constructed by and for freed slaves after the Civil War, due to a rising need for inexpensive housing. Who occupied these houses over time? What were their lives like? Most of them were ordinary citizens to whom we can all relate. Each one of these houses has at least a hundred stories to tell, many of which have been uncovered and recounted here. Join local preservationist Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer as she elevates the freedman's cottages to their rightful place in the history of Charleston architecture.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $12.24
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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: Stan Hoig
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1993-02
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Reading Level: 344
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.78
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James M. Smallwood
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.406
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Publication Date: 2008-03
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Reading Level: 229
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Description: Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called "Taylor-Sutton feud" has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing--one among many--marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn't reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $14.29
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909
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Publication Date: 2000-06
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Reading Level: 192
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Displaying records 51 through 60 of 1861
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