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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once it was one of the most famous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New England-the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricade-known to early Americans...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 490 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public audiences. He also figured prominently in the major intellectual conflicts between left and right during the last half of the twentieth century, although his unwavering commitment to free speech and racial integration that affirmed his liberalism...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Holocaust Representations in History is an introduction to critical questions and debates surrounding the depiction, chronicling and memorialization of the Holocaust through the historical analysis of some of the most provocative and significant works of Holocaust representation. In a series of chronologically presented case studies, the book introduces the major themes and issues of Holocaust representation across a variety of media and genres,...
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 303 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Civil War Witnesses and Their Books" offers an analysis of books written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. It follows a similar volume-Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (LSU Press, 2019)-which also examined some of the most important writings about the conflict from its participants. The eight contributors to this volume selected books, eleven in all, that have proved influential over a significant period. Some...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic dive into our country's history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence, a centuries-old secret document that might just unravel the origin story of America and reveal the intellectual crime of the millennia. In 1819, John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register that he breathlessly described to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as "one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, pickaxes, Kelly risked his life and helped thirty-two enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey...
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