History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
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Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B41517
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Synopsis History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by : James Ford Rhodes

Our Documents

Our Documents
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780198042273
ISBN-13 : 0198042272
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Documents by : The National Archives

Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.

The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America

The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 9781351305358
ISBN-13 : 1351305352
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America by : Vernon Parrington

This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume.

Reveille in Washington

Reveille in Washington
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : 9781590174678
ISBN-13 : 1590174674
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Reveille in Washington by : Margaret Leech

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker) 1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes. Soldiers of a volunteer army swing from the dome of the Capitol, assassins stalk the avenues, and Abraham Lincoln struggles to justify his presidency as the Union heads to war. Reveille in Washington focuses on the everyday politics and preoccupations of Washington during the Civil War. From the stench of corpse-littered streets to the plunging lace on Mary Lincoln’s evening gowns, Margaret Leech illuminates the city and its familiar figures—among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Seward, and Mary Surratt—in intimate and fascinating detail. Leech’s book remains widely recognized as both an impressive feat of scholarship and an uncommonly engrossing work of history. “The best single popular account of Washington during the great convulsion of the Civil War.” —The Washington Post

Democracy by Degrees

Democracy by Degrees
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ISBN-10 : 0692083367
ISBN-13 : 9780692083369
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy by Degrees by : Robert Rydell

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
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Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015072421376
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature by : Historical Association (Great Britain)

Laboratory Manual in American History

Laboratory Manual in American History
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Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89055665244
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Laboratory Manual in American History by : Howard Eugene Wilson

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 1516
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ISBN-10 : 9780230270701
ISBN-13 : 0230270700
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Statesman's Year-Book by : Mortimer Epstein

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.