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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On the Portuguese island of Madeira, John Alves, son of a Presbyterian martyr, bonds with Mary Freitas, a botanist's adopted daughter of suspect background, and they flee to the United States when enmity between Catholics and Protestants on their island boils over. Initially separated, they reconnect in Illinois, but unfortunately the Civil War looms.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...
Author
Language
English
Description
The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Ayers examines the visions that moved...
18) Years of madness
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages).
Language
English
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