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Freedom on the Border
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Civil Rights in American Law, History, and Politics charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture and confronts important questions about race in contemporary America. How important is civil rights in America's story of possibility and change? How has it transformed...
Scars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
by Andrew E. Masich
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles,...
In Search of the Movement
The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
Table of Contents for this...
Our Minds on Freedom
Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Traditionally, literature on the civil rights movement has highlighted the leadership of ministerial men and young black revolutionaries like the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X. Though recent studies have begun to explore female participation in the struggle for...
by Salmon P. Chase
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The vivid, lucid and extremely illuminating diary of Salmon P. Chase remained scattered until 1954 when they were published under the editorship of eminent Civil War historian David H. Donald. Chase served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln’s cabinet from 1861 to 1864, during the...
Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1
Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together 45 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early...
"Old Slow Town"
Detroit During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans....
So Conceived and So Dedicated
Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).
With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a...
The Loyal, True, and Brave
America's Civil War Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Courage, perseverance, and dedication were hallmarks of the Civil War soldier. These qualities, along with their disarming humanness, have lent an enduring attraction to their story. In The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers, readers will learn how the soldier's story has changed...
by Ludmig
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Ganhe tempo de estudo com esta Edição Inteligente do Código de Processo Civil, atualizada até 05/03/2013.
A Lei nº 5.869, de 11 de janeiro de 1973, institui o Código de Processo Civil.
Esta Edição Inteligente foi concebida com...