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“michael l lanning”

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  • The African American Soldier:

    From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell

    by Michael L. Lanning ...
    More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded.Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an education. White historians of the period, and for years after ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • The American Civil War: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.The American Civil War: History in an Hour gives a concise and authoritative overview of ... Read more

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  • The American Civil War

    by John Keegan ...
    The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan’s knowledge of military history he provides a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hymns of the Republic

    The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of the most compelling narratives and one of history’s great turning points. Now, Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Zachary Taylor

    The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850

    by John S. D. Eisenhower ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil WarZachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 3rd Edition

    An In-Depth Look at the Dramatic Course of This Conflict

    by Alan Axelrod Ph.D. ...
    A battle ready guide to the deadliest war in American historyCompletely revised for the Sesquicentennial, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Civil War, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of America's bloodiest war. From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, this book embodies the latest scholarship, offering fascinating stories of the men and women who ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The War of 1812

    Conflict for a Continent

    by J. C. A. Stagg ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812–15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition

    by Bruce Catton ...
    A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from "one of America's foremost Civil War authorities" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling historian Bruce Catton explores the life and legacy of one of the nation's most misunderstood heroes: Ulysses S. Grant. In this classic work, Grant emerges as a complicated figure whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Civil War 100

    The Stories Behind the Most Influential Battles, People and Events in the War Between the States

    by Michael Lee Lanning ...
    The Civil War was the defining event in American history.The Civil War 100 uses a truly novel approach to analyze the respective importance of the events, leaders and battles of America's most important war."Across this easily accessible reference, readers meet notonly such icons as Lincoln and Lee, but also chronic fumblerswhose tarnished reputations have most often sunk beneaththe notice of the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Harlem Hellfighters

    When Pride Met Courage

    by Walter Dean Myers, Bill Miles ...
    "We cannot let this history die, nor can we let it fade away. As it has filled me with pride and given me understanding of one group of outstanding soldiers, so it should be passed on to all Americans to appreciate and honor" (from the introduction by coauthor and unit historian Bill Miles)The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage is a portrait of bravery and honor. With compelling narrative ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Honor in the Dust

    Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream

    by Gregg Jones ...
    “Fascinating.”—New York Times Book Review • “Well-written.”—The Boston Globe • “Extraordinary.”—The Christian Science Monitor • “A compelling page-turner.”—Adam HochschildOn the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the U.S. into a major world power. The Spanish-American War would forever change America's standing in global affairs, and drive the young ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To America

    Personal Reflections of an Historian

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians.Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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