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University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Examining the relationship between middle- and planter-class white women who supported the Confederacy, this book demonstrates that elite and middle-class white Southern women--active at home and abroad--played an integral role in the construction of Confederate nationalism as both actors and symbols, and it traces the impact of and the memories surrounding these women's wartime activism into the twentieth century"--
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Marred by frequent violence and tragedy, the Reconstruction period was a revolutionary era that offered hope, opportunity, and against all odds, a new birth of freedom for all Americans. Even though many of the gains of Reconstruction were rolled back and replaced with a repressive social and legal regime for African Americans, the radical spark was never fully extinguished, and its spirit fanned back into flame with the Civil Rights Movement of...
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam,...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--
From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us...
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English
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Journalist Masha Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush...
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Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions...
15) Saving grace: speak your truth, stay centered, and learn to coexist with people who drive you nuts
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Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist offers a path to navigating the toxic division in our culture without compromising our convictions and emotional well-being, based on her experience as a journalist during the Trump era, interviews with experts, and research on what leads people to actually change their minds. For years, Kirsten Powers has been center stage for many of our nation's most searing political and cultural battles...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"--
Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. Cozzens shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tackling the issues at the forefront of the American mind--healthcare, education, capitalism, and more America the Beautiful is indispensable reading. From four-time bestselling author, internationally renowned neurosurgeon, and humanitarian Dr. Ben Carson, here is a sobering and inspiring manifesto of America's greatness, her failings, and the values and changes it will take to carry our country into a brilliant and prosperous future.
18) Divided we stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies,"--NoveList.
19) Until justice be done: America's first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.--
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