BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERAby James M. McPherson, New York: Oxford University Press, 904 pp.,$29.95 cloth, Ballantine paperback $14.95TWO and a half months before the presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln wrote in a brief memo to himself: "It seems exceedingly ...
The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political ...
Seth Lerer wrote a history of "Children's Literature from Aesop to Harry Potter".in which he writes cohesively about the Edwardian Era, The Golden Age, and The Wind in the Willows. Mr. Toad appears in the book several times. Here is an excerpt that relates Toad's world to Edwardianism...
busy market square. They can read books while carrying firewood or tending pigs. If one cannot work hard and become self-reliant, then they should not read books in their own home, even in a peaceful and serene place cannot help them read. Why worry about choosing the right place or ...
Between those landmarks is the Edwardian era. There is apprehension abroad. The nation is anxious about anarchists and terrorists. There is the looming possibility of war. The complacency of the Conservative hegemony is shattered by the Liberal landslide of 1906, not to mention the rise of the...
A poignant personal narrative about the history of Black education in South Carolina The battle for equality in education during the civil rights era came at a cost to Black Americans on the frontlines. In 1964 when fourteen-year-old June Manning Thomas walked into Orangeburg High School as one...
History books tell readers about significant events from the past. Some history books are massive tomes and detail expansive topics, such as the American Civil War. History books can also cover narrow timeframes in great detail. For example, multiple historians have written about the day Abraham ...
Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone With the Wind, a famous Civil War era novel about a love affair during war, was born in Atlanta Georgia.
20.Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ByJames M. McPherson| Used Price: 70% Off James McPherson's classic account of the Civil War era focusses not just on the war but the lead up too. Another fundamental theme is the many interpretations of liberty, as both sides believed they...
The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political ...