Author: Kim Allen Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Mike Russell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880365274
Category : Bottles
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Ellen C. Gerth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933034072
Category : Bottles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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“An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced development—have fed the imaginations of some of our most accomplished historians. Foremost in their ranks today is Edward L. Ayers, author of the award-winning and ongoing study of the Civil War in the heart of America, the Valley of the Shadow Project. In wide-ranging essays on the Civil War, the New South, and the twentieth-century South, Ayers turns over the rich soil of Southern life to explore the sources of the nation's and his own history. The title essay, original here, distills his vast research and offers a fresh perspective on the nation's central historical event.

Author: WILLIAM PARKHURST. TUTTLE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033555958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374513382
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

Author: William P. Tuttle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832860553
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Author: William Parkhurst Tuttle
Publisher:
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Category : Madison (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Author: Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190900911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. It was a natural fit. Settlers from the East had for decades been pushing into the West, where the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and treatment of Native Americans cemented racial hierarchies. The South and West equally depended on extractive industries-cotton in the former and mining, cattle, and oil in the latter-giving rise a new birth of white male oligarchy, despite the guarantees provided by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the economic opportunities afforded by expansion. To reveal why this happened, How the South Won the Civil War traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity. At the nation's founding, it was the Eastern "yeoman farmer" who galvanized and symbolized the American Revolution. After the Civil War, that mantle was assumed by the Western cowboy, singlehandedly defending his land against barbarians and savages as well as from a rapacious government. New states entered the Union in the late nineteenth century and western and southern leaders found yet more common ground. As resources and people streamed into the West during the New Deal and World War II, the region's influence grew. "Movement Conservatives," led by westerners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, claimed to embody cowboy individualism and worked with Dixiecrats to embrace the ideology of the Confederacy. Richardson's searing book seizes upon the soul of the country and its ongoing struggle to provide equal opportunity to all. Debunking the myth that the Civil War released the nation from the grip of oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Founding, it reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived.

Author: Ignatius Donnelly
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The epic tale of the life and times of one Ephraim Benezet of Kansas, a man who had a vision of a vast empire in which all men would be equal. It's the story of a “secret” formula for making gold. Donnelly provides an in-depth look into Benezet’s life, including his struggles to find work and make ends meet during the Civil War era. A novel about social justice, equality, land-grabbing, greed, and murder.