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Valiant Men of War

Black Soldiers' Fight for Family, Honor, and Nation in the Civil War South

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The story of the Black Civil War soldiers who fought for a nation to respect them as fully humanOver 135,000 Black Southerners defended the Union during the Civil War. This book tells the story of these soldiers, who fought their one-time oppressors with grit and gallantry to seize the manhood and honor that was denied them in slavery and to make the South a land of liberty, not bondage.Jonathan ... Read more

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The story of the Black Civil War soldiers who fought for a nation to respect them as fully humanOver 135,000 Black Southerners defended the Union during the Civil War. This book tells the story of these soldiers, who fought their one-time oppressors with grit and gallantry to seize the manhood and honor that was denied them in slavery and to make the South a land of liberty, not bondage.Jonathan
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Freedom Soldiers

The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons

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Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet their journeys for liberation continued. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment. They agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. They fought on bravely, yet thousands ran. Chafing ... Read more

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Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet their journeys for liberation continued. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment. They agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. They fought on bravely, yet thousands ran. Chafing
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Freedom Soldiers

The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons

by Jonathan Lande ...

Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisting, their journeys for liberation continued amid the bloody civil war. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment meted out by white officers. They also agonized over families still enslaved and ... Read more

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Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisting, their journeys for liberation continued amid the bloody civil war. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment meted out by white officers. They also agonized over families still enslaved and
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The Substances of War

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Civil War

by Joseph M. Beilein Jr., Megan L. Bever, Jonathan S. Jones, Erin Shearer, Brian Alberts, Ben Roy, Scott C. Martin, Jonathan Lande0, David Korostyshevsky1, Daniel Farrell2, Anne Garner3, James Marten4 ...

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The Substances of War explores how drugs, alcohol, and other substances were perceived, used, and fought over during the Civil War era. Because the Civil War unfolded in a culture already saturated in drugs, the essays in this collection take substance use and abuse as the center of its study, charting the consumption of many substances—from water, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol to quinine and ... Read more

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The Substances of War explores how drugs, alcohol, and other substances were perceived, used, and fought over during the Civil War era. Because the Civil War unfolded in a culture already saturated in drugs, the essays in this collection take substance use and abuse as the center of its study, charting the consumption of many substances—from water, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol to quinine and
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Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics

by Stanley Porter, Christopher Land, Jonathan Watt, Dana Harris ...

A team of leading experts offers a major reference work on Biblical Greek language and linguistics, treating a wide variety of pertinent topics in a single volume.Written by an international group of contributors, this comprehensive work covers Biblical Greek and its usage especially in the New Testament and the Septuagint. The book includes nearly three hundred articles on topics chosen on the ... Read more

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A team of leading experts offers a major reference work on Biblical Greek language and linguistics, treating a wide variety of pertinent topics in a single volume.Written by an international group of contributors, this comprehensive work covers Biblical Greek and its usage especially in the New Testament and the Septuagint. The book includes nearly three hundred articles on topics chosen on the
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Homes for Living

The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons

by Jonathan Tarleton ...

Narrated by Max Newland ...

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**A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housingA New Yorker Best Book of 2025**The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant ... Read more

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**A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housingA New Yorker Best Book of 2025**The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant
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Winning the Crowd

The Politics of Popular Films

by Joey M. Barretta, Sean Beienburg, Luigi Bradizza, Adam Carrington, Catherine Craig, Jerome C. Foss, Richard Jordan, Aaron Kushner, Casey J. Wheatland ...

How are the films we watch shaping our political worldview? Studies show that films shape us—they affect our values, our beliefs, and our actions. Consequently understanding the messages reinforced by many popular films is vital for everyone, and especially for the student of politics.Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films showcases careful, close readings of recent, popular films as ... Read more

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How are the films we watch shaping our political worldview? Studies show that films shape us—they affect our values, our beliefs, and our actions. Consequently understanding the messages reinforced by many popular films is vital for everyone, and especially for the student of politics.Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films showcases careful, close readings of recent, popular films as
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, Associate Professor of History, Daryl A. Carter, Beau D. Cleland, Emmanuel Dabney, Adam H. Domby, Myisha S. Eatmon, Barbara Gannon, Scott Hancock, William Horne, LeeAnna Keith, Jonathan Lande, Anne Marshall, Jaime Amanda Martinez, Nicole Turner, Samuel Watts ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries ... Read more

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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries
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What This Cruel War Was Over

by Chandra Manning ...

**Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise ... Read more

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**Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (**The Philadelphia Inquirer).In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise
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For Cause and Comrades

Why Men Fought in the Civil War

by James M. McPherson ...

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death,
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Rise to Greatness

Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

by David Von Drehle ...

This New York Times–bestselling biography follows President Lincoln through one fateful year as he rose to the moment of America's greatest crisis.As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the US Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and ... Read more

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This New York Times–bestselling biography follows President Lincoln through one fateful year as he rose to the moment of America's greatest crisis.As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the US Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and
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Crossroads of Freedom

Antietam

by James M. McPherson ...

Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events ... Read more

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The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events
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