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  • Excommunicated from the Union

    How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America

    by William B. Kurtz ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "Concise, engaging . . . [A] superb study of the US Catholic community in the Civil War era." — Civil War Book ReviewAnti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, many Catholic Americans considered it a chance to prove their patriotism once and for all.Exploring how Catholics sought to use their participation in the war to counteract religious ... Read more

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  • Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text

    The Heroism of Catholic Chaplains and Sisters in the American Civil War

    by David Power Conyngham ...
    "Students of the Civil War, Catholic history, and women's history, among others, will welcome [ Soldiers of the Cross] . . . Brilliantly edited." —Randall M. Miller, co-editor of Religion and the American Civil WarShortly after the Civil War, an Irish Catholic journalist and war veteran named David Power Conyngham began compiling the stories of Catholic chaplains and nuns who served during the ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on the Union War

    by Michael Caires, Jack Furniss, Jesse George-Nichol, William B. Kurtz, Peter Luebke, Tamika Nunley, Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    Edited by Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon, two of the most prominent nineteenth-century American historians in the nation, New Perspectives on the Union War provides a more nuanced understanding of what “Union” meant in the Civil War North by exploring how various groups of northerners conceived of the term. The essays in this volume demonstrate that while there was a broad consensus that the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

    by Eric Bain-Selbo, Robin Hardin, Alan Goldenbach, Bruce Evensen, Chris Geyerman, Natalia Mielczarek, Anthony Moretti, Terry Shoemaker, Landon T. Huffman, Jeffrey B. Kurtz, Patrick J. Sutherland0, Steven N. Waller1, Brad Schultz2, Mary L. Sheffer4 ...
    This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. A wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports, ethics, or culture as a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Frontiers in European Radiology

    by J. Griebel, C.F. Hess, B. Kurtz, S.H. Heywang, G. Koebrunner, M.W. Bauer, R. Langer, P.H.G. Mahieu ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Congenital hip dysplasia and dislocation are common diseases of newborns and small infants, with frequently severe consequences if orthopaedic therapy is not initiated at an early stage. Therefore many clinicians have been looking for a simple method for the investigation of the hip joint in the early neonatal period. Up to 1980 the diagnosis of hip dysplasia could usually not be made before the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • A Great Sacrifice

    Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War

    by James G. Mendez ...
    Series series The North's Civil War
    "Offers readers new insight into the lives of African American men and women from the North in the era of the Civil War." —Liz Regosin, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, St. Lawrence UniversityA Great Sacrifice is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends ... Read more

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  • The Bookshop of the World

    Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

    by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen ...
    The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles.The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century: ... Read more

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  • Living in Medieval England

    The Turbulent Year of 1326

    by Kathryn Warner ...
    A month-by-month account of what life was like for the everyday person just before the Black Plague wiped out most of Europe.1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of mercenaries to destroy her husband's powerful and detested lover, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and brought down her husband, King Edward ... Read more

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  • Honorable Treachery

    A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

    by G.J.A. O'Toole ...
    A "splendidly written, impeccably researched, and perfectly fascinating" look at clandestine operations from colonial times to the Cuban Missile Crisis ( The Washington Post Book World).We've always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war—but that work has often taken place in the shadows. Honorable Treachery fills in these details in our ... Read more

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  • "They Have Killed Papa Dead!"

    The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance

    by Anthony S. Pitch ...
    The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is a central drama of the American experience. Its impact is felt to this day, and the basic story is known to all. Anthony Pitch?s thrilling account of the Lincoln conspiracy and its aftermath transcends the mere facts of that awful night during which dashing actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head and would-be assassin Lewis Payne butchered Secretary ... Read more

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  • JFK's Secret Doctor

    The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus

    by Susan E.B. Schwartz ...
    Set against the grand panorama of twentieth-century world events, it captures the remarkable life and spirit of climbing and medical visionary Hans Kraus (1905-1966). Kraus was taught English by James Joyce, escaped Nazi dominated Europe, and was JFK’s secret back specialist. A legendary rock climber known for hair-raising ascents on two continents, Kraus lived a life filled with tragedy and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Secret Agenda

    Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA

    by Jim Hougan ...
    The exposé that reveals "a prostitution ring, heavy CIA involvement, spying on the White House as well as on the Democrats, and plots within plots" ( The Washington Post)Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade ... Read more

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