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Author: Terry D. Bilhartz
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781003416432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
Author: Terry D. Bilhartz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780765618191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the United States is a fascinating tale of intrigue, adventure, and progress, with many surprising twists and turns--and Currents in American History is designed to convey the defining elements of the story in an engaging, quick-paced narrative. Rather than covering a bit of everything, this volume traces the American people's drive to expand liberty and equality through important turning points as represented by eight pivotal days from from colonial times through 1877. Far shorter than most standard texts, this affordable work makes it possible for students to conceptualize America's complex history by assessing the causes and consequences of eight momentous days that changed the nation's course. Currents in American History includes an online Student Learning Center that provides access to primary sources; audio and visual materials; original maps, photos, drawings, posters, and paintings; self-testing quizzes; tools for organizing, printing, and exporting primary documents; and more. Visit the online Student Learning Center at http://www.sharpelearning.com/history/currents.
Author: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-14
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1000949303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
Author: Jason Ripper
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0765629046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuitable for an introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing, this book focuses on "personalized history" presented through biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from 1865.
Author: James Ford Rhodes
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D. W. Meinig
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780300082906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume one examines how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies. Volume two emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictablilty of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues.
Author: Emory M. Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-05-06
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0199831580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in. In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved the Union, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planter class. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolve would survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southern determination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate independence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths. Thomas weaves his exploration of these misconceptions into a tense narrative of the months leading up to the war, from the "Great Secession Winter" to a fast-paced account of the Fort Sumter crisis in 1861. Emory M. Thomas's books demonstrate a breathtaking range of major Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitive biographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, he draws upon his lifetime of study to offer a new perspective on the outbreak of our national Iliad.
Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0807837326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author: Adam Goodheart
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1400032199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Author: J. Michael Martinez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1442259965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era. A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction—from the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negro—a night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a “top down” perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a “bottom up” discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.
