A Question of Freedom : The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War 0300234120, 9780300234121

A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq 9780300156010

According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will wi

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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War 1479823244, 9781479823246

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, an

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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War 1479823244, 9781479823246

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, an

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Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era 9780195038637

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 9781541617773, 9781541617780

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escap

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The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War 1324006498, 9781324006497

One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation com

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Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War 9780300129731

This book, the most comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology ever written, encompasses scores of Americ

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A Great Sacrifice: Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War 9780823282524

This study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This

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Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War 9780804777926

The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew o

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The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War 9780674075849

Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscie

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