Search Results - "American Civil War

Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / by Wyatt, David, 1948-

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Men in the American women's rights movement, 1830-1890 : cumbersome allies / by Quanquin, Hélène

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The conservatives ideas and personalities throughout American history / by Allitt, Patrick

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Through the storm, through the night a history of African American Christianity / by Harvey, Paul, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Middle passage for the gods: African and African American religions from the middle passage to the great awakening -- The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831 -- Through the night: African American religion in the Antebellum Era -- Day of jubilee: Black churches from emancipation to the era of Jim Crow -- Jesus on the mainline: Black Christianity from the great migration through World War II -- Freedom's main line: Black Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism -- Epilogue: righteous anger and visionary dreams: contemporary Black politics, religion, and culture.…”
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Commander and builder of western forts the life and times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901 / by Ballard, Jack S.

Table of Contents: “…Medal of Honor -- Civil War experience -- Department of the Gulf: command of Black troops -- Post-Civil War: the occupation army -- On to the Rio Grande -- A new wife and troubles on the Rio Grande -- To the Pacific Northwest -- Fort Laramie -- Fort Logan, Colorado -- Department of the Columbia: Vancouver Barracks and Alaska -- The Spanish-American War -- Department of the Colorado and the Idaho mining riots -- Toward retirement -- Who was Maj. …”
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Contested commonwealths essays in American history / by Pencak, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…s An astronomical diary -- The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort" -- John Adams and his contemporaries -- The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797) -- Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court -- From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade -- "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution -- The Civil War did not take place.…”
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Advertising Progress : American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / by Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

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Stagestruck filmmaker D.W. Griffith & the American theatre / by Mayer, David

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Meeting the enemy American exceptionalism and international law / by Saito, Natsu Taylor

Table of Contents: “…"A distinctly American internationalism" -- Saving civilization : the war on terror -- Civilizing the other : colonial origins of international law -- "A city on a hill" : America as exception -- Establishing the republic : first principles and American identity -- A manifest destiny : colonizing the continent -- American imperial expansion -- Making the world safe for democracy -- The new world order and American hegemony -- Confronting American exceptionalism.…”
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Take up the Black man's burden Kansas City's African American communities, 1865-1939 / by Coulter, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1954-

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Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 / by Knight, Henry, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…"Our" tropical lands: reinventions of California and Florida after the Civil War -- A climate for health and wealth: the lure of tropical leisure on American soil -- The fruits of labor: boosterist visions of republican renewal and semi-tropical agriculture -- Desert and swamp: the conquest of tropical nature in the progressive era -- "New edens of the Saxon home-seeker": Los Angeles, Miami, and semi-tropical urban life.…”
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James Solomon Russell former slave, pioneering educator and Episcopal evangelist / by Norman, Worth Earlwood

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Observing America the commentary of British visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 / by Frankel, Robert Perry, 1958-

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An African republic Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / by Tyler-McGraw, Marie

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Walt Whitman's Reconstruction poetry and publishing between memory and history / by Buinicki, Martin T., 1972-

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Lee & Grant profiles in leadership from the battlefields of Virginia / by Bowery, Charles R.

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America in the sixties by Greene, John Robert, 1955-

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Sea la luz the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900 / by Martínez, Juan Francisco, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"Planting the institutions of freedom" -- Protestant attitudes toward the conquest of the Southwest -- "Unfit for the duties and privileges of citizens" -- Anglo American Protestant attitudes toward the Mexicans of the Southwest -- "Making good citizens out of the Mexicans" -- Motivations for Protestant mission work among Mexican Americans -- "Yet many do not declare themselves for fear" -- Protestant mission efforts prior to the Civil War -- "Teaching them to be law-abiding, industrious and thrifty citizens" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Texas -- "A slumbering people" -- Mexican American Protestantism in the territory of New Mexico -- "Doing what he could" -- Mexican American Protestantism in Colorado, the territory of Arizona, and California -- "A power for the uplifting of the Mexican race" -- Characteristics of the nineteenth-century Mexican American Protestant community -- Conclusion : beginnings of a new subculture.…”
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Pragmatism, politics, and perversity democracy and the American party battle / by Esposito, Joseph L., 1941-

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Shadow and shelter the swamp in southern culture / by Wilson, Anthony, 1975-

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