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What They Fought for 1861-1865

By: George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson

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What They Fought for 1861-1865

By: George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson

In an exceptional Civil War analysis, McPherson draws on the letters and diaries of nearly one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers, giving voice to the very men who risked their lives in the conflict.

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People, Vol 1 4th Ed, Historyunbound: Interactive Explorations in History

By: John M. Murrin,Paul E. Johnson,George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson,Gary Gerstle,Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies Gary Gerstle,Emily S. Rosenberg,Norman L. Rosenberg

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People, Vol 1 4th Ed, Historyunbound: Interactive Explorations in History

Have real-time access to online modules from HistoryUnbound, including maps, timelines, art, critical thinking questions and over 300 primary source readings. Modules include Choosing Sides: Colonial Social Groups on the Eve of the Revolution, the Wizard of Oz as a Populist Parable, Chicago: Building a City and many more. Visit http: //history.wadsworth.com and select HistoryUnbound to view sample modules

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0534627536

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Liberty,Equality,Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson,Paul Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,Professor Gary Gerstle,Professor of History Emily S Rosenberg

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Liberty,Equality,Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson,Paul Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,Professor Gary Gerstle,Professor of History Emily S Rosenberg

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, CONCISE EDITION provides students with a clear understanding of how power is gained, lost, and used in both public and private life. This concise version retains the clarity, coverage, and thematic unity of the larger text, while offering unmatched integration of social and cultural history into a political story. It retains the strong chronological and thematic framework of the bigger text, but offers a more manageable option for instructors concerned about too much material and too little time.

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0534169457

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Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

By: John Murrin,Paul Johnson,James McPherson,Alice Fahs,Gary Gerstle

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Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

By: John Murrin,Paul Johnson,James McPherson,Alice Fahs,Gary Gerstle

You spoke and Wadsworth, a part of Cengage Learning listened. This Compact Version is part of the Cengage Advantage Books, which offers our Comprehensive texts in a lower-cost format. This black and white version of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER includes eight 4-page color map inserts to bring the regions to life. While the compact version includes fewer photos than the Comprehensive version, it offers plenty of resources to make the course visual and exciting for students. In addition, students will have access to the Book Companion Website that offers quizzing, interactive maps, interactive timelines, and simulations. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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0495411035

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People to 1877

By: John M. Murrin,Professor of History Emeritus John M Murrin,Paul E. Johnson,George Henry Davis `86 Professor of American History James M McPherson,James M. McPherson,Gary Gerstle,Emily S. Rosenberg

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Liberty, Equality, and Power

A History of the American People to 1877

This is Volume I: To 1877 of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Fourth Edition. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER offers students a clear understanding of how America transformed itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. The authors promote this understanding by telling the story of America through the lens of three major themes: liberty, equality, and power. This approach helps students understand not only the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, but also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power. This Fourth Edition retains the narrative clarity, unparalleled coverage, and thematic unity that are the hallmarks of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER. It updates the text's proven ability to cover social and cultural history with such timely topics as globalization, the impact of science and technology, evolving roles for religion, and expands upon the text's extensively multicultural coverage. Backed by an ancillary package unmatched in this market, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER makes its thorough, memorable coverage equally accessible to students and instructors. It's available in the following volume splits: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Fourth Edition (Chapters 1-31) ISBN: 0534627307 LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Volume I: To 1877, Fourth Edition (Chapters 1-17) ISBN: 0534627315 LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Volume II: Since 1863, Fourth Edition (Chapters 17-31) ISBN: 0534627323.

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0495091774

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Lamson of the Gettysburg

The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy

By: James M. McPherson,Patricia R. McPherson

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Lamson of the Gettysburg

The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy

By: James M. McPherson,Patricia R. McPherson

Roswell Lamson was one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy. Second in the class of 1862 at Annapolis (he took his final exam while at sea during the war), he commanded more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank in the service, climaxed by his captaincy of the navy's fastest ship in 1864, USS Gettysburg. Now, in Lamson of the Gettysburg, we have the war-time letters of this striking naval figure. What's more, these are letters of exceptional quality. James M. McPherson, co-editor of the collection with his wife Patricia and one of America's preeminent Civil War historians, writes that "few sets of letters equal and none surpass those of Lamson for richness of description, scope of coverage, or keenness of perception and analysis." Indeed, the McPhersons term Lamson's correspondence "the best Civil War navy letters we have ever read or expect to read." Throughout the war, Lamson always seemed to be where the action was on the South Atlantic coast, and these letters describe with striking immediacy the part he played in these events. While serving on the USS Wabash, for instance, he directed the big deck guns that did the most damage to enemy forts at Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal, two major naval victories. He was the officer who took command of the CSS Planter in May 1862, when slaves led by Robert Smalls ran her past Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor and delivered her to the Union fleet. He commanded a gunboat fleet on the Nansemond River that helped stop James Longstreet's advance on Norfolk. In a daring attempt to blow up Fort Fisher, the huge earthwork fortress that guarded the entrance into the Cape Fear river, he towed the USS Louisiana (packed with more than two hundred tons of gunpowder) directly under the guns of the fort, sneaking into the shallows behind a rebel blockade runner, (Lamson describes "a terrific explosion. An immense column of flame rose towards the sky, and four distinct reports like that of sharp heavy thunder were heard and a dense mass of smoke enveloped everything"). And a few weeks later, he led a contingent of seventy men from the Gettysburg as part of the January 15, 1865 assault on the sea-face parapets of Fort Fisher, where he himself was wounded and his close friend, Samuel W. Preston, died. The letters also capture the spirited personality of Lamson himself, resolved to "stand by the Union as long as there is a plank afloat," but also deeply ambivalent about the war. In a moving passage early in the collection, he describes leaving Annapolis for war duty on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides): "We gave three cheers for Capt R., three for the troops, and for old friendship's sake three for those of our number who intending to resign [to join the Confederacy] were requested not to go on board. Some of my best friends were among them. This will be a sad sad war. It will be more painful to strike than to be struck." The publication of the letters of Roswell Lamson marks a major addition to Civil War literature. Featuring superb introductions to each section as well as informative notes that explain references in the correspondence to people, ships, land and sea battles, or homefront news, Lamson of The Gettysburg now joins the first rank of Civil War sources. One of the few accounts we have from the perspective of a navy officer, it is a book that everyone interested in the Civil War or in American naval history will want to read.

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0199727929

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Liberty, Equality, Power

A History of the American People; to 1877

By: John M. Murrin,Pekka Hamalainen,Paul E. Johnson,Denver Brunsman,James M. McPherson

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Liberty, Equality, Power

A History of the American People; to 1877

By: John M. Murrin,Pekka Hamalainen,Paul E. Johnson,Denver Brunsman,James M. McPherson

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. This book teaches readers about American history and exposes them to movies and other forms of popular culture that tell the stories of the nation's past. A highly respected and thoroughly modern approach to U.S. history, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Seventh Edition, shows how the United States was transformed, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on Earth. This approach helps readers understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and recognize how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.

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1305632214

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers." Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history.

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0199729360

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Liberty, Equality, Power

A History of the American People; Since 1863

By: John M. Murrin,Pekka Hmlinen,Paul E. Johnson,James M. McPherson,Denver Brunsman

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A History of the American People; Since 1863

By: John M. Murrin,Pekka Hmlinen,Paul E. Johnson,James M. McPherson,Denver Brunsman

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

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The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

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Tried by War

Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

By: James M. McPherson

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Tried by War

Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

By: James M. McPherson

Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.

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1594201919

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Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, Compact

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

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Liberty, Equality, Power

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

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