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11 produkter
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters (LOA #50)
Av Ulysses S. Grant, Mary D. McFeely m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
431 kr
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Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and …
Strange Career of Jim Crow
A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely
Av C. Vann Woodward, William S. McFeely
Häftad, 2002
166 kr
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Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Frederick Douglass, William L. Andrews m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
249 kr
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Frederick Douglass’ 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives, along with essays, a chronology and bibliography.
Yankee Stepfather
General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen
Häftad, 1994
324 kr
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At the close of the Civil War, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau—formally, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands—to deal with the question of the place in society of its new black citizens. General Oliver Otis Howard, known both admiringly and derisively as the "Christian …
Frederick Douglass
Häftad, 1995
330 kr
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Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the antislavery movement and is one of the truly …
Sapelo's People
A Long Walk into Freedom
Häftad, 1995
265 kr
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In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history—and enters into the current-day lives—of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. …
Proximity to Death
Häftad, 2001
226 kr
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On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in the sentencing trial of a convicted kidnapper, rapist, and murderer. His brief testimony that day would ultimately lead him on …
Grant
Häftad, 2002
491 kr
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The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and …
Portrait
The Life of Thomas Eakins
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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Thomas Eakins painted two worlds in nineteenth-century America: one sure of its values—statesmen, scientists, and philosophers—and one that offered an uncertain vision of the changing times. From the shadow of his mother's depression to his fraught identity as a married man with homosexual …
Frederick Douglass
Häftad, 2017
208 kr
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Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass—orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America—was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanised the antislavery movement and is …
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters (LOA #50)
Library of America #50
Av Ulysses S. Grant, William S. McFeely m. fl.
E-bok, 1990
416 kr
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Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’s greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose, and …
