Télécharger le livre :  Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
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Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy. This...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-06-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Jefferson Davis's Generals
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Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-10-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gettysburg Nobody Knows
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On the first three days of July in 1863, more than 160,000 Union and Rebel soldiers fought a monumental battle in Gettysburg, a bloody contest that has been hailed as "the turning point of the Civil War." It is without a doubt the best known engagement of the war and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1999-04-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Why the Civil War Came
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In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1996-01-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Lincoln, the War President
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"Americans interested in history need to make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg," writes Gabor Boritt in the Acknowledgments. In this book seven historians make that journey, five of them Pulitzer laureates, looking for Lincoln. Kenneth Stampp explores the issue of national...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1994-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Why the Confederacy Lost
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After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking? Pickett scratched his head and replied, "I've always...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1993-10-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Lincoln, the War President
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"Americans interested in history need to make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg," writes Gabor Boritt in the Acknowledgments. In this book seven historians make that journey, five of them Pulitzer laureates, looking for Lincoln. Kenneth Stampp explores the issue of national...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-10-01

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