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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"During Reconstruction Northerners attempted to remake the United States in their own image. They would make incarnate the new world Republicans imagined at the end of the Civil War. That new world seemed possible because the Republican Party controlled the Union in 1865 as fully as any political party would ever control the country. Reconstruction would produce a nation built around free labor with a homogenous citizenry whose rights would be guaranteed...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed - and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea...
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have arrived in America, a bold, brash land bursting with life. But like their beloved London, the city of Chicago has dark secrets. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they uncover a sickening truth: the once-in-a-lifetime event is tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders. Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations only to find themselves facing a serial killer unlike...
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English
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude...
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