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  • "...the real war will never get in the books"

    Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    ₹450.87

  • "A Mind-Opening Influence of Great Importance": Arthur Raper at Agnes Scott College

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

    He was such an eye-opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about life and society."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at ... Read more

    ₹226.95

  • "A New Kind of War"

    America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

    by Howard Jones ...
    America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during the mid-1960's. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of ... Read more

    ₹1,538.99

  • "A Peculiar People"

    Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

    Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious ... Read more

    ₹1,365.59

  • "Adrian's Revenge"

    Adrian's Revenge, a quasi-fiction/non fictional tale bathed in a spritual backwash with a protagonist who is haunted throughout the story.Comejoin in on the quest of this modern day hero of a sort that begins inhistoric Spain as its Kings and Queens send braveexplorers or not tothe foreign shores of the Americasto search out the new worldas he searches for answers to questions that have driven him ... Read more

    ₹547.99

  • "Aid and Comfort"

    Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

    Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the ... Read more

    ₹1,092.49

  • "All Labor Has Dignity"

    Series Book 5 - King Legacy
    An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to ... Read more

    ₹730.79

  • "All the Real Indians Died Off"

    And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

    Series Book 5 - Myths Made in America
    Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: ... Read more

    ₹595.99

  • "America is the True Old World"

    The eBook, "America is the True Old World" (Vol., I), is destined to rewrite the history books, due to the topic of the eBook, if proven correct, because the old world is suppose to be the East and not the West. This eBook reveals the discovery of the Lost Continent of Mu, Atlantis discovered, the Garden of Eden and so much more. This eBook has 40 color illustrations to highlight the Beauty of the ... Read more

    ₹600.00

  • "An Arch Rebel Like Myself"

    Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas

    Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops ... Read more

    ₹1,092.49

  • "And So the Tomb Remained"

    Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut's Historical Family Mausolea

    Series Book 16 - Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in direct contact with crushing soil burden led many prominent families to construct large above-ground and semi-subterranean tombs, usually burrowed into the sides ... Read more

    ₹831.29

  • "Answer at Once"

    Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

    Edited by Katrina M. Powell ...
    With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation ... Read more

    ₹1,669.89

  • "Aquestas son de México las señas"

    la capital de la Nueva España según los cronistas, poetas y viajeros (siglos XVI al XVIII)

    Series Book 12 - Parecos y australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Desde la Conquista a nuestros días son numerosas las referencias a la Ciudad de México, además de monografías dedicadas a ciertos aspectos de la misma. Los conquistadores nos legaron imágenes rayanas en lo maravilloso: la ciudad que vio Bernal Díaz del Castillo, cuyos edificios en el agua le parecen encantamientos del Amadís, la de la segunda Carta de relación de Cortés, fascinado ante las lagunas ... Read more

    ₹2,440.68

  • "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

    by Robert Morgan ...
    Mason-Dixon Lines"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"poetry by Robert MorganRobert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale— not merely familial or communal but epochal and even geologic." . . . for ten millennia, the bonesseemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . " ... Read more

    ₹226.95

  • "Bobbie", A Story of the Confederacy

    Series series Classics To Go
    Excerpt: "He always said he never knew which was worse, his name or his nose; but as he could get rid of neither, he accepted both in his own bright, happy way, and that ended the matter with him. Peter Black had given him the name of Mars’ Bobbie to distinguish him from Mars’ Robert, his father, and it seemed to fit so exactly and suit so well his cheery, lovable little self as a baby, and later ... Read more

    ₹75.00

  • "Boomtown Rabbits": The Rabbit Market in Chatham County, North Carolina, 1880-1920

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food

    by Will Sexton ...
    Although the same cottontails flourished across the region, Chatham County turned its rabbits into something like a regional brand, recognized throughout the South and along the eastern seaboard. By the end of the nineteenth century, Siler City had become the de facto rabbit capital of the southeast."This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also ... Read more

    ₹226.95

  • "Boots And Saddles" Or Life In Dakota With General Custer

    "Boots And Saddles" Or "Life In Dakota With General Custer" by Elizabeth B. Custer" is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of General Custer's devoted wife, who accompanied her military husband over the badlands of Dakota, during the Indian troubles of the 1870's. This last duty post of General Custer ended in his death at ... Read more

    ₹63.68

  • "Breaking Barriers with Mama Cax"

    "A Story of Courage, Strength, and Defiance Against All Odds"

    Mama Cax was a remarkable woman who inspired many people around the world with her strength, resilience, and advocacy for inclusivity and diversity in the fashion industry. She was a true trailblazer, breaking down barriers and challenging stereotypes with her unique style and powerful message.Mama Cax was also a fierce fighter, overcoming obstacles and setbacks throughout her life with grace and ... Read more

    ₹398.31

  • "By the Blood of Our Alumni"

    Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac

    Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college, graduated hundreds of officers into the Federal armies who participated in the long and bloody war to crush the Southern Rebellion of 1861-1865. Robert Poirier’s “By the Blood of Our Alumni”: Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac is their story.It is difficult to overstate the school’s influence on the war ... Read more

    ₹480.19

  • "Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

    Navigating the Century of Flight

    Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as ... Read more

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  • "Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana

    The Origins of an Iconic Image

    by Bruce Laurie ...
    Series Book 8 - Working Titles
    "Chaotic Freedom" is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Gere and currier and carpenter Marshall S. Stearns, both from western Massachusetts. The photograph they eventually collaborated to produce became the Civil War emblem featured in Harper's: the carte de ... Read more

    ₹151.04

  • "Country Music is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is": Opryland U.S.A. and the Importance of Home in Country Music

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

    by Jeremy Hill ...
    Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff."When the Opry changed sites it wasn't without a good deal of growing pains, angst, and rhetoric—but ... Read more

    ₹226.95

  • "Daddy's Gone to War"

    The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

    Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but ... Read more

    ₹427.22

  • "Dear Darling Loulie"

    Series series Continuing Education
    This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950’s by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the pair took in their ancestors centered on family research into the life of Dabney Minor Scales, who served as a second lieutenant on the Shenandoah, the most important and famous ship of the Confederate ... Read more

    ₹69.49