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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its greatest figures, including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln,...
Author
Series
AHA pamphlets volume 260
Publisher
American Historical Association
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Desc
59 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The concept of "the West" is present in entertainment, politics, and world markets. Told through fourteen figures who each played a role in the creation of the Western idea- from Herodotus, a mixed-race migrant, to Phylis Wheatley, an enslaved African American who became a literary sensation, to the medieval Arab scholar Al-Kindi- Mac Sweeney provides a mind-expanding blend of unsung heroes and familiar faces viewed afresh. Spanning the millennia...
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Paperback edition].
Physical Desc
xii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional...
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