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Book A Confederate Girl

Download or read book A Confederate Girl written by Carrie Berry and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate South in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities and a timeline of the era.

Book Diary of Carrie Berry

Download or read book Diary of Carrie Berry written by Carrie Berry and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, a 10-year-old girl who lived in the Confederate South in 1864"--

Book Diary of Carrie Berry

Download or read book Diary of Carrie Berry written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Confederate Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carrie Berry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-09
  • ISBN : 9781437968675
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Confederate Girl written by Carrie Berry and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Berry and her family lived in Atlanta, GA, during the Civil War (1861-1865). They were Confederates, that is, Southerners who believed in a strong state gov¿t. The South was one of the world¿s leading suppliers of cotton and plantation owners used slaves to grow and pick the cotton. Northerners led by Pres. Lincoln opposed slavery. By February 1861, 11 Southern states had left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Civil War broke out. Carrie kept her diary for six months during the many battles fought in and around Atlanta and the destruction of everything of value by the victorious Union troops marching through Georgia. Carrie¿s diary tells what life was like for a Confederate girl during the Civil War. Illus. Reinforced binding.

Book A Confederate Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christy Steele
  • Publisher : Children's Press
  • Release : 1999-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780516213385
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book A Confederate Girl written by Christy Steele and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of Carrie Berry

Download or read book Diary of Carrie Berry written by Carrie Berry and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Berry and her family lived in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War. In 1864 the Union Army battled the Confederacy for Atlanta. Cannons boomed and fires burned around Carrie and her family. Through it all, 10 year old Carrie recorded her experiences in her diary. Follow her story of challenges and triumphs.

Book The Carrie Diaries TV Tie in Edition

Download or read book The Carrie Diaries TV Tie in Edition written by Candace Bushnell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This #1 New York Times bestselling prequel to Sex and the City is now a CW TV series! The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of Carrie Bradshaw, one of the most iconic characters of New York City and our generation. Before Sex and the City, Carrie was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, and a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself and evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious and poignant, we'll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where her new life begins.

Book Carrie

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  • Author : Stephen King
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 0307743667
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Carrie written by Stephen King and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror. “A master storyteller.” —The Los Angeles Times • “Guaranteed to chill you.” —The New York Times • "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —Chicago Tribune Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.

Book War Like the Thunderbolt

Download or read book War Like the Thunderbolt written by Russell S. Bonds and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on diaries, unpublished letters, and other archival sources to trace the events of the Civil War campaign that sealed the fate of the Confederacy and was instrumental in securing Abraham Lincoln's reelection.

Book A Diary from Dixie

Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the author's Civil War diary from February 18, 1861, to June 26, 1865. She was an eyewitness to many historic events as she accompanied her husband to significant sites of the Civil War.

Book The Inman Diary

Download or read book The Inman Diary written by Arthur Crew Inman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1919 and his death by suicide in 1963, Arthur Crew Inman wrote what is surely one of the fullest diaries ever kept by any American. Convinced that his bid for immortality required complete candor, he held nothing back. This abridgment of the original 155 volumes is at once autobiography, social chronicle, and an apologia addressed to unborn readers. Into this fascinating record Inman poured memories of a privileged Atlanta childhood, disastrous prep-school years, a nervous collapse in college followed by a bizarre life of self-diagnosed invalidism. Confined to a darkened room in his Boston apartment, he lived vicariously: through newspaper advertisements he hired "talkers" to tell him the stories of their lives, and he wove their strange histories into the diary. Young women in particular fascinated him. He studied their moods, bought them clothes, fondled them, and counseled them on their love affairs. His marriage in 1923 to Evelyn Yates, the heroine of the diary, survived a series of melodramatic episodes. While reflecting on national politics, waifs and revolutions, Inman speaks directly about his fears, compulsions, fantasies, and nightmares, coaxing the reader into intimacy with him. Despite his shocking self-disclosures he emerges as an oddly impressive figure. This compelling work is many things: a case history of a deeply troubled man; the story of a transplanted and self-conscious southerner; a historical overview of Boston illuminated with striking cityscapes; an odd sort of American social history. But chiefly it is, as Inman himself came to see, a gigantic nonfiction novel, a new literary form. As it moves inexorably toward a powerful denouement, The Inman Diary is an addictive narrative.

Book A Traveled First Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louisa Catherine Adams
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-04
  • ISBN : 0674369270
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book A Traveled First Lady written by Louisa Catherine Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.

Book The War Within

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  • Author : Alexis Peri
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-02
  • ISBN : 0674971558
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The War Within written by Alexis Peri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Winner of the AATSEEL Book Prize Winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize “Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad endured.” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Fascinating and perceptive.” —Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books “Powerful and illuminating...A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work.” —Anna Reid, Times Literary Supplement “A sensitive, at times almost poetic examination.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives. It was one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who endured it. Drawing on unpublished diaries written by men and women from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic story of how young and old struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them. When the blockade was lifted in 1944, Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and arrested many of Leningrad’s wartime leaders. Some were executed. Diaries—now dangerous to their authors—were concealed in homes, shelved in archives, and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost accounts, shedding light on one of World War II’s darkest episodes while paying tribute the resilience of the human spirit.

Book The Children s Civil War

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Alan Marten
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780807849040
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Children s Civil War written by James Alan Marten and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Children's Civil War is an exploration of childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. James Marten describes how the war changed the literature and schoolbooks published for children, how it affected children's relationships with absent fathers and brothers, how the responsibilities forced on northern and especially southern youngsters shortened their childhoods, and how the death and destruction that tore the country apart often cut down children as well as adults.

Book Writing War

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  • Author : Aaron William Moore
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-10
  • ISBN : 0674075412
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Writing War written by Aaron William Moore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks to remedy this imbalance by examining over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen from 1937 to 1945, the period of total war in Asia and the Pacific. As he describes conflicts that have often been overlooked in the history of World War II, Aaron William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of modern identity, which is important to our understanding of history. Any discussion of war responsibility, Moore contends, requires us first to establish individuals as reasonably responsible for their actions. Diaries, in which men develop and assert their identities, prove immensely useful for this task. Tracing the evolution of diarists’ personal identities in conjunction with their battlefield experience, Moore explores how the language of the state, mass media, and military affected attitudes toward war, without determining them entirely. He looks at how propaganda worked to mobilize soldiers, and where it failed. And his comparison of the diaries of Japanese and American servicemen allows him to challenge the assumption that East Asian societies of this era were especially prone to totalitarianism. Moore follows the experience of soldiering into the postwar period as well, and considers how the continuing use of wartime language among veterans made their reintegration into society more difficult.

Book Revolution on My Mind

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  • Author : Jochen Hellbeck
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674038533
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Revolution on My Mind written by Jochen Hellbeck and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Jochen Hellbeck brings us face to face with gripping and unforgettably poignant life stories. This book brilliantly explores the forging of the revolutionary self in a study that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.

Book Moscow Diary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Benjamin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780674587441
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Moscow Diary written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: