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Book The Confederate Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard B. Harwell
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-06-22
  • ISBN : 0486121291
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book The Confederate Reader written by Richard B. Harwell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully chosen and annotated selection of contemporary battle reports, general orders, letters, articles, sermons, songs, travel observations, much more. Wonderful self-portrait of the Confederacy. Illustrated.

Book The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

Download or read book The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader written by Rod Gragg and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Battle of Gettysburg through letters, journals, articles, and speeches from the people who lived through those days.

Book What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know

Download or read book What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Delta. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should your child learn in the fifth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fifth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know is designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the Core Knowledge Series, and this edition gives a new generation of fifth graders the advantage they need to make progress in school today and to establish an approach to learning that will last a lifetime. Discover: • Favorite Poems—old and new, from Langston Hughes’s “I, Too” to Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” • Literature—from around the world, including Native American stories, Japanese tales, and condensed versions of classics, from Don Quixote to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass • Learning About Literature—the rules of written English, pats of speech, literal and figurative language, common sayings and phrases, and a brief introduction to researching and writing a report • World and American History and Geography—explore latitude and longitude; Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations; European history during the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance, and the Reformation; and American history topics, including the Civil War, westward expansion, and the struggle of Native Americans • Visual Arts—art from around the world, from Renaissance paintings to American landscapes to Japanese gardens, with discussions of Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Botticelli—along with more than twenty reproductions. • Music—the basics of understanding, appreciating, and reading music, plus great composers from Beethoven to Mendelssohn and an introduction to African-American spirituals • Math—stimulating lessons, including percentages, number sense, long division, decimals, graphs, and geometry—as well as a quick introduction to pre-algebra • Science—fascinating discussions of taxonomy, atoms, the periodic table, human growth stages, plants, life cycles and reproduction—plus short biographies of famous scientists such as Galileo

Book Jews and the Civil War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2011-09
  • ISBN : 0814771130
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Jews and the Civil War written by Jonathan D. Sarna and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An erotic scandal chronicle so popular it became a byword... Expertly tailored for contemporary readers. It combines scurrilous attacks on the social and political celebritites of the day, disguised just enough to exercise titillating speculatuion, with luscious erotic tales." —Belles Lettres This story concerns the return of to earth of the goddess of Justice, Astrea, to gather information about private and public behavior on the island of Atalantis. Manley drew on her experience as well as on an obsessive observation of her milieu to produce this fast paced narrative of political and erotic intrigue.

Book Reading Lucan s Civil War

Download or read book Reading Lucan s Civil War written by Paul Roche and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only his epic poem, the Civil War, has survived. Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of the Roman Empire, the Civil War is a stirring account of the war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the republican senate led by Pompey the Great. Reading Lucan’s Civil War is the first comprehensive guide to this important poem. Accessible to all readers, it is especially well suited for students encountering the work for the first time. As the editor, Paul Roche, explains in his introduction, the Civil War (alternatively known in Latin as Bellum Civile, De Bello Civili, or Pharsalia) is most likely an unfinished work. Roche places the poem in historical and literary contexts that will be helpful to first-time readers. The volume presents, chapter-by-chapter, essays that cover each of the Civil War’s ten extant books. Five further chapters address topics and issues pertaining to the entire work, including religion and ritual, philosophy, gender dynamics, and Lucan’s relationships to Vergil and Julius Caesar. The contributors to this volume are all expert scholars who have published widely on Lucan’s work and Roman imperial literature. Their essays provide readers with a detailed understanding of and appreciation for the poem’s unique features. The contributors take special care to include translations of all original Latin passages and explain unfamiliar Latin and Greek terms. The volume is enhanced by a map of Lucan’s Roman world and a glossary of key terms.

Book The Civil War and Reconstruction

Download or read book The Civil War and Reconstruction written by Stanley Harrold and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods. Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879 Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate

Book Why the Civil War Came

    Book Details:
  • Author : David W. Blight
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1997-05-29
  • ISBN : 0195113764
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Why the Civil War Came written by David W. Blight and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 years and claim many lives. This book brings together a collection of voices to help explain the commencement of Am.

Book The Confederate and Neo Confederate Reader

Download or read book The Confederate and Neo Confederate Reader written by James W. Loewen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans—including most history teachers—think the Confederate States seceded for “states' rights.” This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy. These documents have always been there. When South Carolina seceded, it published “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” The document actually opposes states' rights. Its authors argue that Northern states were ignoring the rights of slave owners as identified by Congress and in the Constitution. Similarly, Mississippi's “Declaration of the Immediate Causes. . .” says, “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world.” Later documents in this collection show how neo-Confederates obfuscated this truth, starting around 1890. The evidence also points to the centrality of race in neo-Confederate thought even today and to the continuing importance of neo-Confederate ideas in American political life. The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to read these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor, Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.

Book The Civil War Reader

Download or read book The Civil War Reader written by The Union reader and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weird  Scary   Unusual

Download or read book Weird Scary Unusual written by and published by West Side Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armchair Reader series entertains and enlightens with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, and fascinating facts that make even the mundane fun. The Armchair Reader's innovative approach and witty style will capture the interest of all readers. Inside you'll find tantalizing tales of true hauntings, strange stories of otherworldly phenomena, and bizarre bits of human behavior. Learn how the testimony of a ghost got a man convicted of murder. Read about the fire that's been burning under a Pennsylvania town for more than 40 years. Uncover the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Find out where America's most frightening monsters hang out. And much, much more. Pick up a copy today and start reveling in the lore, legends, and colorful characters that make up this weird and wacky world in which we live.

Book The Civil War Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Barksdale Harwell
  • Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
  • Release : 1995-03
  • ISBN : 9780831713362
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Civil War Reader written by Richard Barksdale Harwell and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Barksdale Harwell
  • Publisher : BDD Promotional Books Company
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780792456018
  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book The Civil War Reader written by Richard Barksdale Harwell and published by BDD Promotional Books Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participants in the Civil War describe the bitterness of the conflict and battlefield scenes of heroism and horror.

Book The Civil War Reader

Download or read book The Civil War Reader written by Richard B. Harwell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated Confederate Reader

Download or read book The Illustrated Confederate Reader written by Rod Gragg and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Douglas SOuthall Freeman Award in history, here is the Southern story of the War Between the States in the words of the men and women who experienced it. The stories are enhanced by more than 200 period photos and illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Civil War Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard B. Harwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-07
  • ISBN : 9780788150005
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The Civil War Reader written by Richard B. Harwell and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate & Union Readers are indispensable companions to anyone interested in the Civil War. Here the participants describe in their own words the bitterness of the conflict, battlefield scenes of heroism & horror, the very pulse of the war. Richard B. Harwell is a distinguished historian. He is author & editor of many books about the Civil War & has been director of libraries at Bowdoin, Smith & Southern Georgia colleges. In addition, he has served as curator of rare books & manuscripts at the University of Georgia.

Book The Civil War Soldier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Barton
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 0814798802
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book The Civil War Soldier written by Michael Barton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together in one landmark volume over one hundred years of the best writing on the common soldier, from an account of life as a Confederate soldier written in 1882 to selections of Wiley's classic scholarship, and from the story of women who joined the army disguised as men to an essay on the soldier's art of dying.

Book The Post Reader of Civil War Stories

Download or read book The Post Reader of Civil War Stories written by Gordon Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: