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Texas Women

Their Histories, Their Lives

by Juliana Barr, Angela Boswell, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Light T. Cummins, Victoria H. Cummins, Mary Ellen Curtin, W. Marvin Dulaney, Gabriela González, Ruth Hosey Karbach, Renee M. Laegreid, Paula Mitchell Marks, Judith N. McArthur, Laura Lyons McLemore, Bianca Mercado, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Robin C. Sager, Harold L. Smith, Jean A. Stuntz, Kelli Cardenas Walsh, Eric Walther, Nancy Elizabeth Baker ...

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Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an uncommon diversity among ... Read more

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Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an uncommon diversity among
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Congress and the People’s Contest

The Conduct of the Civil War

by Jonathan Earle, Eric Walther, Lesley J. Gordon, Fergus M. Bordewich, Jenny Bourne, Mischa Honeck, L. Diane Barnes, Chandra Manning, Nikki M. Taylor ...

Series series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the ... Read more

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The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the
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The Shattering of the Union

America in the 1850s

by Eric H. Walther ...

Series series The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. With their grudging acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the election of ... Read more

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The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade as the country lurched toward secession and war. With their grudging acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the election of
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The Enigmatic South

Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

by Paul F. Paskoff, John M. Sacher, Eric H. Walther, Christopher Childers, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Hyde, Gaines M. Foster, George C. Rable ...

The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, ... Read more

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The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics,
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William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War

by Eric H. Walther ...

Series series Civil War America
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814–63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, ... Read more

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IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814–63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling,
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Recent Advances in Algorithmic Differentiation

Edited by Shaun Forth, Paul Hovland, Eric Phipps, Jean Utke, Andrea Walther ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The proceedings represent the state of knowledge in the area of algorithmic differentiation (AD). The 31 contributed papers presented at the AD2012 conference cover the application of AD to many areas in science and engineering as well as aspects of AD theory and its implementation in tools. For all papers the referees, selected from the program committee and the greater community, as well as the ... Read more

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The proceedings represent the state of knowledge in the area of algorithmic differentiation (AD). The 31 contributed papers presented at the AD2012 conference cover the application of AD to many areas in science and engineering as well as aspects of AD theory and its implementation in tools. For all papers the referees, selected from the program committee and the greater community, as well as the
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American Animals

A Memoir

by Eric Borsuk ...

Narrated by Nick Walther ...

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3 hours 53 min

AS SEEN IN THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE“One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in 21st-century annals.”―The Hollywood Reporter“A rare book heist that Danny Ocean may have applauded―except for one mistake.”―Vanity Fair“A tragicomedy of errors.”―Salon“They are the young people, the people with the idealism, the passion, the courage to do something interesting with their lives: an act of daring ... Read more

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AS SEEN IN THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE“One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in 21st-century annals.”―The Hollywood Reporter“A rare book heist that Danny Ocean may have applauded―except for one mistake.”―Vanity Fair“A tragicomedy of errors.”―Salon“They are the young people, the people with the idealism, the passion, the courage to do something interesting with their lives: an act of daring
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Apostles of Disunion

Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

by Charles B. Dew ...

Series series A Nation Divided
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our
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Ecstatic Nation

Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

by Brenda Wineapple ...

"From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ... ... Read more

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"From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ...
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The Wars of Reconstruction

The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

by Douglas R. Egerton ...

A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and
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The Road to Disunion

Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

by William W. Freehling ...

Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery

Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

by Manisha Sinha ...

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses ... Read more

$28.99 USD

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery.Sinha discusses
... Read more

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