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American Civil War (1861-1865) Indians of North America Indians of North America Civil rights Indians of North America Government relations Secret service Special operations (Military science) Spies United States United States Confederate States of America United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 CampaignsAlexander, Bevin.
Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.713 ALESummary: An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc CSummary: Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVLeBoutillier, Linda
Summary: "The U.S. Civil War was a war that changed the face, body, and heart of the United States forever. Secrets of the U.S. Civil War reveals little-known stories of the people, weapons, and battles that have affected the maps on our walls and the allegiances in our hearts."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017
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Summary: Chronologically examines the battles of the Civil War, focusing on the leadership skills, strengths, and flaws of Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, George H. Thomas, and Francis C. Barlow, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, John B. Hood, and John B. Gordon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.713 BUESummary: Risking their lives on deadly undercover missions around the globe, the Unit is a highly skilled, ultra-secret contingent of special forces soldiers operating outside the traditional chain of military command. The hunters become the hunted as the team and their families are targeted by a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy forcing them to relocate and assume new identities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNIVaron, Elizabeth R.
Summary: "An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Contents: War objectives : North and South -- Political environment -- Navigation -- An industrial war -- Confederate Canadian team and mission -- Plots and more plots -- End game -- Courtenay Torpedo -- The shadow war : Union and Confederate secret operators -- The Lady Elgin, a precursor of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STOJacobs, Margaret D.
Summary: "A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people, After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.11 JACLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASHalls, Kelly Milner
Summary: "Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Civil War? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 HALNúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUNSledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITMcPherson, James M.
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy shows how Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force and, like no other chief executive in American history, exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, JEFFERSON MCPCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMWalsh, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7455 WALPember, Phoebe Yates
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2002
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Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.1 LICGlatthaar, Joseph T.
Summary: General Robert E. Lee's army was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion into the North, they nearly managed to convince the North to give up the fight. Astonishingly, after 150 years of scholarship, there are still some major surprises about the Army of Northern Virginia. Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar draws on sources assembled over two decades--from letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.742 GLAGillman, Melanie
Summary: The New Mexico Territory, 1861. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia home--and conscription into the Confederate Army. But her coach ride to California makes an unplanned stop when notorious outlaw the Ghost Hawk swoops in, shaking down its passengers and stealing away with Grace. The Ghost Hawk--Flor, to her friends--means to hold Grace for ransom. But when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GILVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004