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African American astronauts African Americans History African Americans Social conditions Black lives matter movement Blacks Caribbean Area Politics and government Latin America Relations United States Presidents United States Biography Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865Foote, Shelby.
Contents: 1. Fort Sumter to Perryville -- 2. Fredericksburg to Meridian -- [3] Red River to Appomattox. 1st ed. 1974.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1958
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 FOOFoote, Shelby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1963
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FOOFoote, Shelby
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1958
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1958
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FOOCatton, Bruce
Summary: The third and final volume of a narrative history of the Civil War traces the war from Fredericksburg through many campaigns to the end of the war and Lincoln's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATMaraniss, David.
Summary: Maranisss offers an account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, revealing the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that evaluates the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.48 MARMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 MilMillard, Candice.
Summary: A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin'sbullet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MillardSummary: "...Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVShaara, Jeff
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war. Summer, 1863. The Federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHABrands, H. W.
Summary: What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BRAOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTCwiklik, Robert
Summary: An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Perhaps Spain's best-known novelist before the Spanish Civil War, Ramon Sender belonged to the social narrative and existential schools and was a member of the vaunted Generation of 1925. When his wife and family were killed in the war, he fled into exile during which time he wrote some of his finest works. In this program, location footage, archival photos, and realia are combined with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program carries the narrative of the Civil War forward into its opening months, during which hopes for a quick victory died alongside thousands of soldiers during clashes fought on an unprecedented scale. Advances in weaponry and key battles-First and Second Bull Run/Manassas, Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, and Antietam/Sharpsburg-are analyzed, as well as the possibility of British intervention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Oakes, James.
Summary: This is a book about two towering figures in our nation's history. It is a moving story about an improbable friendship, and an important story about an equally improbable alliance. [In the book, the author] has written a ... narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. -Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7114 OAKBertera, Martin N.
Summary: From the Publisher: This fascinating narrative tells the story of a remarkable regiment at the center of Civil War history. The real-life adventure emerges from accounts of scores of soldiers who served in the 4th Michigan Infantry, gleaned from their diaries, letters, and memoirs; the reports of their officers and commanders; the stories by journalists who covered them; and the recollections...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 BERHahn, Steven
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner. In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAHAyers, Edward L.
Summary: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies is a landmark work of stirring historical narrative and deep scholarship. It gives us the Civil War on an intimate scale, as a story of individuals and families, civilians and soldiers, slaves, free blacks and whites, women and men. It upends what has become the standard view of the Civil War. By taking a ground-level view of the war, Edward L. Ayers shows that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 AYEMorrison, Toni.
Summary: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Morrison 1987Summary: As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 NASSummary: This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018