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  • Hispanic Americans in the Civil War

    by A.J. Schenkman ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    Forgotten Fighters and Unknown ExploitsMore than twenty thousand Hispanic Americans served in the Civil War. When Cuban-born Loreta Janeta Velázquez's husband would not allow her to join him on the battlefield, she assumed the role of First Lieutenant Harry T. Buford to be near him. Philip Bazaar, born in Chile, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous exploits during the assault of Fort ... Read more

    $13.80 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Franklin's Trees

    by A.J. Schenkman ...
    Illustrated by Lauren Reese ...
    “All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on The Hudson River,” President Franklin Roosevelt once declared. For it was at his home in Hyde Park, New York that FDR could indulge in his favorite avocation—“tree farmer.” This book introduces children to FDR’s love of nature through a lifetime in which he oversaw the planting of over a million trees on his estate. It tells of a childhood ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Unexpected Bravery

    Women and Children of the Civil War

    by A.J. Schenkman ...
    The American Civil War divided the United States from 1861-1865. During those years, over two million soldiers served in both the Union and Confederate Armies. What is little known is that not only the numerous children, some as young 12, enlisted on both sides, but also women who disguised themselves as men in an attempt to make a difference in the epic struggle to determine the future of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Patriots and Spies in Revolutionary New York

    by A.J. Schenkman ...
    Spies! Loyalists! Tories! Conspiracy! Strange messages? Codes in invisible ink? The American Revolution was first and foremost a civil war that tore at the very fabric of families as well as society. Patriots were determined to separate from England; while Loyalists were just as determined to defeat what they saw as a rebellion. Many do not know that during several critical periods the war was ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A History of the Wallkill Central Schools

    by A.J. Schenkman, Elizabeth Werlau ...
    When the Borden family arrived in the nineteenth century, educational opportunities in Ulster County were limited; classes rarely extended beyond the eighth grade. This changed when the philanthropic Bordens established their Borden Condensed Milk Company and gave Wallkill the means to construct one of the area's first high schools. In 1938, Central School District No. 1--incorporating the towns ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Ulster County

    Tales of Desperadoes, Gangs & More

    by A.J. Schenkman ...
    Series series
    Uncover Ulster County's hidden history of unsavory characters and stories of its wicked past.Situated in the scenic Hudson Valley, Ulster County is a lovely location to make a home and raise a family, but it wasn't always so pleasant. Unsavory characters and immoral events have sullied its name. In the 1870s, the Shawangunk Mountains inspired fear rather than awe, as groups like the Lyman Freer ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County

    by A.J. Schenkman, Elizabeth Werlau ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    In 1870, the" New York Herald" proclaimed that Ulster County was New York's "Ulcer County" due to its lawlessness and crime. The columnist supported his claim by citing that in only six months, "it has been the scene of no less than four cold blooded and brutal murders, six suicides and four elopements." Hannah Markle--the bane of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union--ran a Kingston saloon where ... Read more

    $18.24 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Black Civil War Soldier

    A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

    by Deborah Willis ...
    Series series NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis
    "The book aims to bring these stoic portraits of black soldiers to life . . . It's what Willis calls the African American experience, as well as resilience." — The GuardianThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Galveston and the Civil War

    An Island City in the Maelstrom

    by James M Schmidt ...
    One of the oldest cities in Texas, Galveston has witnessed more than its share of tragedies. Devastating hurricanes, yellow fever epidemics, fires, a major Civil War battle and more cast a dark shroud on the city's legacy. Ghostly tales creep throughout the history of famous tourist attractions and historical homes. The altruistic spirit of a schoolteacher who heroically pulled victims from the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vicksburg

    Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

    by Donald L. Miller ...
    **Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • 1776

    by David McCullough ...
    America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Man from the Train

    The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

    by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James ...
    An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical genius to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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