Civil War
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-10 | Author:Peter Cozzens

Of course this was self-serving fiction. Nothing had been apparent at 11:00 A.M., and the only one being pressed at 3:00 P.M. was Rosecrans. The dark side of Rosecrans’s genius ...
( Category: Civil War April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Andre M. Fleche

5 The Last Best Hope of Earth ON JANUARY 1, 1863, IN A MUCH-ANTICIPATED NEW YEAR’S DAY CEREMONY, Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation. The order, in its final form, ...
( Category: Civil War April 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-07 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois & Mack H. Jones [Du Bois, W. E. B. & Jones, Mack H.]

At the third day’s session, a special committee of five was appointed to draft a plan for the organization of mechanics and artisans, in order to secure recognition for them ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Allen C. Guelzo [Guelzo, Allen C.]

Chapter 5 Debate The failure of popular sovereignty Contrary to the promises Stephen Douglas made for the popular sovereignty doctrine, almost nothing about popular sovereignty went right after the Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:Heather Cox Richardson

Chapter 6 The West and the South Join Forces By the turn of the twentieth century, inequality was written into American law. That inequality did not spell the triumph of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 28,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |tam | 2019-04-14 | Author:Katherine Franke

This history makes a compelling case for the renewed call for reparations today, especially in the form of property redistribution. To be sure, modern principles of human rights and dignity—familiar ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Cozzens

From Staunton, in the Shenandoah Valley, to Parkersburg, in West Virginia, the State of Virginia more than twenty years before the war constructed a very finely graded turnpike road. When ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack E. Levin

Foreword On July 1, 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, and the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Gordon Meade, met at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Dr. James J. Barnes

JONES, HARVEY A. (ca. 1838–1863) Harvey Jones was born in Tippecanoe County in about 1838. His mother’s name was Mary; she was widowed before 1850, but by then Harvey had ...
( Category: Civil War March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Roy Basler

SPEECH IN REPLY TO DOUGLAS AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.JULY 17, 1858 Fellow-citizens: Another election which is deemed an important one is approaching, and, as I suppose, the Republican party will without ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Unknown

* * * It was a long ride back to the Benchley house. The train was crowded with people headed home, all of whom seemed to have had a very ...
( Category: American Civil War March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Scott W. Berg [Berg, Scott W.]

Meanwhile, the arrests accelerated among the remaining Dakota near Camp Release, a succession of moments that were terrifying for his Dakota charges and troubling, if no more, to Sibley himself, ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Turner

49 Cat and Mouse in Petersburg June 15, 1864–April 3, 1865. Grant and Lee spent the final months of the war in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Grant ...
( Category: Trivia March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Tricia Martineau Wagner [Wagner, Tricia Martineau]

THIS SIDE UP Henry Brown’s Mail Delivery 1849 At the age of thirty-four, and upside down in a fetal position, Henry Brown was ready to be born into a new ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:David Herbert Donald

“B EYOND THE PALE OF HUMAN ENVY ” Lincoln and William H. Seward ON November 16, 1862, Virginia Woodbury Fox recorded a delicious piece of gossip in her diary. “Tish,” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )