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History Teaches Us to Hope

Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History

By: Charles Roland

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History Teaches Us to Hope

Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History

By: Charles Roland

Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that “it is history that teaches us to hope.” Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation’s most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the South’s tumultuous path in the years preceding and following the Civil War. History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a “dogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions.”Throughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy (1960), The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1976), and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (1991). In addition, he has garnered acclaim for two biographical studies of Civil War leaders: Albert Sidney Johnston (1964), a life of the top field general in the Confederate army, and Reflections on Lee (1995), a revisionist assessment of a great but frequently misunderstood general. The first section of History Teaches Us to Hope, “The Man, The Soldier, The Historian,” offers personal reflections by Roland and features his famous “GI Charlie” speech, “A Citizen Soldier Recalls World War II.” Civil War–related writings appear in the following two sections, which include Roland’s theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership. The final section brings together Roland’s writings on the evolution of southern history and identity, outlining his views on the persistence of a distinct southern culture and his belief in its durability. History Teaches Us to Hope is essential reading for those who desire a complete understanding of the Civil War and southern history. It offers a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary historian.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813129176

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9780813129174

Room Full of Mirrors

A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

By: Charles R. Cross

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Room Full of Mirrors

A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

By: Charles R. Cross

It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity in London's swinging sixties. It is the story of an outrageous life--with legendary tales of sex, drugs, and excess--while it also reveals a man who struggled to accept his role as idol and who privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had. Using never-before-seen documents and private letters, and based on hundreds of interviews with those who knew Hendrix--many of whom had never before agreed to be interviewed--Room Full of Mirrors unlocks the vast mystery of one of music's most enduring legends.

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337

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Hachette Books

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1401382819

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9781401382810

The Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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The Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions. Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application. The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom: It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application. Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work. Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543839320

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9781543839326

While in the Hands of the Enemy

Military Prisons of the Civil War

By: Charles W. Sanders, Jr.

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While in the Hands of the Enemy

Military Prisons of the Civil War

By: Charles W. Sanders, Jr.

During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare.

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LSU Press

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0807130613

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9780807130612

Behind Every Dark Cloud

The Critically Acclaimed Novel the Second Edition

By: Charles Carroll Lee

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Behind Every Dark Cloud

The Critically Acclaimed Novel the Second Edition

By: Charles Carroll Lee

Detective Alonzo Cunningham races against the clock to rid the city from a serial rapist. A beautiful woman unwittingly aids the widowed detective in his investigation as well as a clairvoyant college student, James Dexter, and his underworld connected father, Reese Dexter, Jr. Richmond, Virginia is the backdrop for this fast moving novel that brings back some powerful characters from For Better or For Worse, and introduces Shelley Clarke and Sylvia Montgomery into this suspenseful thriller. In addition to capturing the serial rapist, the Dexters are searching for the long lost son of a family friend until the novels breath-taking and jaw dropping conclusion. I have never been so captivated. ~Wilma Cross, Las Vegas Nevada Breathtaking! ~Audrey Neal Thrift, New Orleans, Louisiana Wow! Otelia Christian, Richmond, Virginia

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257

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479721271

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Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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486

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Aspen Publishing

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1543802974

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Detective Fiction

By: Charles J. Rzepka

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Detective Fiction

By: Charles J. Rzepka

Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.

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Polity

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0745629423

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History Teaches Us to Hope

History Teaches Us to Hope

Room Full of Mirrors

Room Full of Mirrors

The Glannon Guide to Property

The Glannon Guide to Property

While in the Hands of the Enemy

While in the Hands of the Enemy

Behind Every Dark Cloud

Behind Every Dark Cloud

Glannon Guide to Property

Glannon Guide to Property

Detective Fiction

Detective Fiction

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