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  • Restoring the World, 1945

    Security and Empire at Yalta

    by Nicolas W. Proctor, John E. Moser ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The devastation of the Second World War is coming to an end. As victory for the Grand Alliance draws close, the leaders of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States gather at Yalta, a resort town on the Black Sea, for the most important summit meeting of the war. Can the great powers finalize their plans for a new world order, or will their often antagonistic ideologies prevent them ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Kentucky, 1861

    Loyalty, State, and Nation

    by Nicolas W. Proctor, Margaret Storey ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln’s 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of violence, students grapple with questions about the future of slavery and the constitutionality of secession. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Forest Diplomacy

    Cultures in Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1757

    by Nicolas W. Proctor ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Forest Diplomacy draws students into the colonial frontier, where Pennsylvania settlers and the Delaware Indians, or Lenâpé, are engaged in a vicious and destructive war. Using sources—including previous treaties, firsthand accounts of the war, Quaker epistles advocating pacifism, and various Iroquois and Lenâpé cultural texts—students engage in a treaty council to bring peace back to the frontier ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chicago, 1968

    Policy and Protest at the Democratic National Convention

    by Nicolas W. Proctor ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    In August 1968, Democrats gather at their National Convention in Chicago to debate a platform for a deeply divided party. Factions are split over issues such as civil rights, infrastructure, and the war on poverty—not to mention the war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, crowds of protesters descend upon the city. Impassioned antiwar demonstrators plan sit-ins and marches, while the absurdist Yippies, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868–1876

    by Nicolas W. Proctor ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Step into the turbulent aftermath of the Civil War, where the abolition of slavery marked the start of a fierce struggle over property, politics, and personhood. In Louisiana—a wealthy, diverse state shaped by a history of brutal enslavement and devastating war—former Confederates pushed to restore white supremacy through violence and new systems of control. Meanwhile, the US Congress enforced ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bathed in Blood

    Hunting and Mastery in the Old South

    by Nicolas W. Proctor ...
    The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in southern society and culture during the antebellum era. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted. Although hunters always recognized the tangible gains of their mission—meat, hides, furs—they also used the hunt to communicate ideas of gender, race, class, masculinity, and community. Hunting was very much a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Modernism versus Traditionalism

    Art in Paris, 1888-1889

    by Gretchen K. McKay, Nicolas W. Proctor, Michael A. Marlais ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Modernism vs. Traditionalism: Art in Paris 1888-1889 considers questions surrounding artistic developments at the end of the nineteenth century in Paris. Students will debate principles of artistic design in the context of the revolutionary changes that began shaking the French art world in 1888-1889. Images from the 1888 Salon and the tumultuous year that followed provide some of the “texts” that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Presidential Transitions

    It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition

    by Patrick H. Sanaghan, Larry Goldstein, Kathleen D. Gaval, Rita Bornstein, Mickey L. Burnim, John Cochran, Donald R. Eastman III, R Kirby Godsey, Timothy R. Lannon, John V. Lombardi, Susan Resneck Pierce, Hailey Proctor, Mohammad H. Qayoumi, Nicholas S. Rashford, Christopher Simpson, Robert Vogel ...
    A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than one-third of the presidential transitions in higher education are involuntary and have a negative ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    by William T. Sherman ...
    William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total ... Read more

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  • Franklin

    by Davidson Butler ...
    Inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, author, and Founding Father - Benjamin Franklin was one of the most exceptional people the world has ever known. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Davidson Butler, is his story. ... Read more

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  • Yorktown

    by Thomas Fleming ...
    Series Book 1 - The Thomas Fleming Library
    At Yorktown, Virginia, after six and a half years of fighting, General George Washington and his troops and their French allies brought the American Revolution to a victorious end. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming is the vivid account of the stunning reversal of British fortunes that led to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the birth of the American nation. ... Read more

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  • Fallen Founder

    The Life of Aaron Burr

    by Nancy Isenberg ...
    From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCulloughLin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new ... Read more

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