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In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground ……続きを見る

The Ambassador is the first book-length study of Alexander Findlay' s life and his contributions to the game of golf. Findlay was the best golfer in New England, one of the best in the U.S, the most……続きを見る

From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave (2013……続きを見る

Parading Patriotism covers a critical fifty-year period in the nineteenth-century when the American nation was starting to expand and cities across the Midwest were experiencing rapid urbanization a……続きを見る

CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slave……続きを見る

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylva……続きを見る

They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of moder……続きを見る

BnF collection ebooks - "Une nouvelle carrière de triomphes et de gloire va s'ouvrir devant Bonaparte. Mes vieux compagnons, vous l'avez tous vu grandir et s'illustrer à la tête de l'armée française……続きを見る

By: Stephen J. Chism, Pub. 1990, Reprinted 2015, 120 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-514-0. This index includes 14,329 entries of unequivocal reports of death in which a person (s) is named ……続きを見る

On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of t……続きを見る

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics……続きを見る

Three historians examine what drove southern secession in the winter of 1860-1861 and why it culminated in the American Civil War. Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon li……続きを見る

In this book, Michael J. C. Taylor outlines an intellectual history of the six essential phrases of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution. These phrases convey what the essential goals and purposes ……続きを見る

“A vivid and convincing account of one of the most significantーbut too often overlookedーfigures in our history.”ーJon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion Overshadowed by both h……続きを見る

"My system has changed - no more war, no more conquests," Napoleon announced after his escape from Elba in 1815. In the space of what is now known as the Hundred Days, the deposed French emperor was……続きを見る

A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by itーuntil now For more than a century, Dr. J. M……続きを見る

Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England. Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrializ……続きを見る

Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneursーindividuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph ……続きを見る

As working women invaded the public space of the factory in the nineteenth century, they challenged Victorian notions of female domesticity and chastity. With virtue at the forefront of discussions ……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. Chapter I. The Origin Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan Chapter III. The Transformati……続きを見る

This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The……続きを見る

In 1806, when retired sea captain and religious activist Christopher Prince (1751-1832) began to write his lifes story, he wanted simply to leave his family a record of his experiences. Today, his a……続きを見る

This title focuses on the "Risorgimento", the movement that led to the unification of Italy as a single kingdom. The Italian Wars of Independence were a sequence of three separate conflicts, taking ……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Note Introduction Forward Chapter I. In the Days of the Raid Chapter II. On A Mission to Washington Chapter III. Without A Country Chapter I……続きを見る

In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebritiesーassured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three ……続きを見る

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence thr……続きを見る

On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed to enterprising young men in the St. Louise area. The subscriber, it said wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the……続きを見る

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylva……続きを見る

The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own wordsー“scum of the earth”ーand as……続きを見る

In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Tho……続きを見る