Search Results - "American Civil War

Broken glass Caleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union / by Belohlavek, John M.

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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Hinton's The outsiders -- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline -- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war -- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions -- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street -- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster -- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running -- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son -- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon -- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.…”
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A Black communist in the freedom struggle the life of Harry Haywood / by Haywood, Harry, 1898-1985

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Advancing democracy African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas / by Shabazz, Amilcar

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Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history /

Table of Contents: “…Cann -- From slavery to freedom : African American life in post-Civil War Spartanburg / Diane C. …”
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Independent immigrants a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / by Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-

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Too poor for peace? global poverty, conflict, and security in the 21st century /

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Negro comrades of the Crown African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / by Horne, Gerald

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Visits with Lincoln abolitionists meet the president at the White House / by White, Barbara A.

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Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920 / by Schmidt, Peter, 1951 Dec. 23-

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On the edge of freedom the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 / by Smith, David G. (David Grant), 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on "the Edge of Freedom" -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonizationism, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : The Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-1828 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.…”
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Faulkner and his contemporaries

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Witness to Reconstruction Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 /

Table of Contents: “…Pearson ; Woolson's two women : 1862 : a Civil War romance of irreconcilable difference / Caroline Gebhard -- Zephaniah Swift Spalding : Constance Woolson's Cipher / Cheryl B. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

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The United States and public diplomacy new directions in cultural and international history /

Table of Contents: “…The anomaly of the Cold War : cultural diplomacy and civil society since 1850 /…”
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Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities / by Falola, Toyin, Mbah, Emmanuel M

Table of Contents: “…A parallel evolution : the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, apartheid, and American civil rights…”

The Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict intellectual struggles between Blacks and Jews at mid-century / by Harris, Glen Anthony, 1964-

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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

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Atlantic Bonds : A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa / by Lindsay, Lisa A.

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The Beecher sisters by White, Barbara Anne

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