John McRee's Books

A Legacy in Brick and Stone

By: John Weaver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The definitive history of the American Third System of Fortifications that defended our coastline for more than half of century, these architectural wonders were built from 1816 through 1867 from Maine through the Florida Keys to New Orleans, with two forts in San Francisco Bay. Almost all of these 42 masonry forts still stand along our shores, and most are open to the public. A Legacy in Brick and Stone provides the background of these famous Civil War forts - why they were built where they are, who built them, and how they functioned - as well as descriptions of each fort. This revised and expanded edition has grown by over 100 pages, and over 400 new photographs and drawings have been included.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1732391602

ISBN 13

9781732391604

Placenames of the Civil War

Cities, Towns, Villages, Railroad Stations, Forts, Camps, Islands, Rivers, Creeks, Fords and Ferries

By: John D. Bennett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Placenames of the Civil War

Cities, Towns, Villages, Railroad Stations, Forts, Camps, Islands, Rivers, Creeks, Fords and Ferries

By: John D. Bennett

Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gazetteer provides information on nearly 1600 sites, including not only locations of battles and skirmishes but also hospitals, prison camps, military academies, factories and navy yards, both North and South. Also listed are islands, rivers, creeks, fords, ferries and railroad stations, as well as many temporary fort and camp names. From Abbeville, Georgia, where Jefferson Davis stopped in May 1865 days before his capture near Irwinville, to Yorktown, Virginia, which was besieged by General George B. McClellan at the start of the Peninsula campaign, entries explain the origin of each placename and its wartime connections. An appendix listing town and city population figures from the 1860 census completes this informative supplement for Civil War scholars and enthusiasts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

193

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786490780

ISBN 13

9780786490783

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

By: John C. Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

By: John C. Miller

Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strategies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

711

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351320947

ISBN 13

9781351320948

Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman

By: Charlene Smith and John Feister

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman

By: Charlene Smith and John Feister

The definitive, authorized biography of Thea Bowman, a black girl born in civil rights era Mississippi who joined a convent of white Catholic sisters and went on to inspire millions of all faiths and none."--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Orbis Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1608330451

ISBN 13

9781608330454

Captaining the Corps d'Afrique

The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin

By: John Newton Chamberlin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Captaining the Corps d'Afrique

The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin

By: John Newton Chamberlin

I have stood by their side in the grim conflict," wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d'Afrique. "Woe to the nation that long withholds their rights from them." Chamberlin spent nearly five years in the South during and after the Civil War. A well read, observant and articulate writer, he recorded his unique perspective as a commander of black soldiers and engineers. More than everyday accounts of camp life and battles, Chamberlin's letters and diaries --here presented in historical context--give an insider's view of the Union army's relationship with black troops and of the political and social implications of wartime events. Late in the war, his correspondence focused on a schoolmate, Anna Bullock, and their burgeoning relationship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

211

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

147662500X

ISBN 13

9781476625003

Sword of the Border

Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828

By: John D. Morris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sword of the Border

Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828

By: John D. Morris

Jacob Jennings Brown was one of the most successful generals of his era, and his military reforms were still in operation in the 20th century. This text presents a study of his career, focusing on his involvement in the creation of a professional army and the establishment of a command structure.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

380

Publisher

Kent State University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0873386590

ISBN 13

9780873386593

Missionaries of Republicanism

A Religious History of the Mexican-American War

By: John C. Pinheiro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Missionaries of Republicanism

A Religious History of the Mexican-American War

By: John C. Pinheiro

The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which "Manifest Destiny" and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. When the overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this "Beecherite Synthesis" provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted an integral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers to interpret Mexico's culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics. Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on ''Manifest Destiny,'' American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199948674

ISBN 13

9780199948673

God Save the South

And a Treasure Chest of Forbidden Information

By: Mr. John Thomas Nall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

God Save the South

And a Treasure Chest of Forbidden Information

By: Mr. John Thomas Nall

[I]f should you happen to have a strong hatred for socialism, and a love for philosophy and true history! Than this unreconstructed and politically incorrect book, will be a valuable tool in anyones personal library. This kind of information would never be allowed in the reconstructed public schools.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

611

Publisher

AuthorHouse

Published Date

ISBN 10

1481755943

ISBN 13

9781481755948

Education Law

Equality, Fairness, and Reform

By: Derek Black,Robert A. Garda,John E. Taylor,Emily Gold Waldman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Education Law

Equality, Fairness, and Reform

By: Derek Black,Robert A. Garda,John E. Taylor,Emily Gold Waldman

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Written by Derek Black, one of the nation’s foremost experts in education law and policy, and Education Law Association’s 2015 Goldberg Award for Most Significant Publication in Education Law recipient, this third edition casebook develops Education Law through the themes of equality, fairness, and reform. The book focuses on the laws of equal educational opportunity for various disadvantaged student populations, recent reform movements designed to improve education, and the general constitutional rights that extend to all students. New to the Third Edition: Updates on litigation regarding the fundamental right to education, school funding, and their intersection with COVID-19 issues New cases and analysis on the rights of LGBTQ youth, including Bostock v. Clayton County Department of Education’s new regulatory structure for investigating and resolving sexual harassment claims Two new U.S. Supreme Court special education cases defining the meaning of “free and appropriation public education” and the intersection of Rehabilitation Act with the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act New cases on student walkouts and protests New U.S. Supreme Court case, Espinoza v. Montana, on vouchers and the free exercise of religion New analysis and updates on the Every Student Succeeds Act New materials on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down mandatory teacher union fees Professors and student will benefit from: Efficient presentation of cases—to permit more comprehensive inclusion of case law and issues Problems—which can be modified for group exercises, in-class discussion, or out-of-class writing assignments Contextualization and situation of case law in the broader education world—by including edited versions of federal policy guidelines, seminal law review articles, social science studies, and organization reports and studies Careful editing of cases and secondary sources—for ease of reading and comprehension Narrative introductions to every chapter, major section, and case—synthesize and foreshadow the material to improve student comprehension and retention Teaching materials Include: Teacher’s Manual

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1356

Publisher

Aspen Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1543823246

ISBN 13

9781543823240

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

By: John Dittmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

By: John Dittmer

This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History "The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review. "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement, woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0252008138

ISBN 13

9780252008139

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Selected essays

By: John Franklin Jameson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Selected essays

By: John Franklin Jameson

John Franklin Jameson (1859-1937) was instrumental in the development of history as an academic discipline in the United States. After the Johns Hopkins University awarded him the country's first doctorate in history, he became a founder of the American Historical Association, served as the first managing editor of the American Historical Review, and was a key figure in the creation of the National Archives, the National Historical Publications Commission, and the Dictionary of American Biography. This book, the first volume in an ambitious documentary edition of Jameson's public and private papers, contains essays representing Jameson's own scholarly concerns, followed by documents that reflect his role as an advocate for public support of historical and humanistic research. Many of these writings appear in print here for the first time. As a writer on historical subjects, Jameson is best known for his small book on the American Revolution, published late in his career. The scholarly essays contained in this volume, however, reveal pioneering work in a variety of subjects, including American political history, black history, southern constitutional and political history, and social history. In such writings Jameson showed great sensitivity to the significance of race, religion, ethnicity, and culture as historical elements. At a time when the study of American political institutions predominated among historical scholars, Jameson championed the claims of social, economic, and religious history and provided a basis for further research that historians have yet to exploit fully. The remaining documents in this volume not only demonstrate Jameson's advocacy of scholarship but also reveal him as a thoughtful commentator on the academic world at a crucial point in its development. Jameson entreated historical societies and professional scholars to decide for themselves the historical research that needed to be done and to seek support accordingly, instead of simply doing whatever work wealthy patrons were willing to subsidize. Similarly, he told colleges and universities to give scholars the freedom to engage in research without being hamstrung by the predilections of trustees. And, finally, he admonished the federal government to fulfill its responsibility to protect and publish historically significant documents. "As a young scholar," notes Morey Rothberg in his introduction, "Jameson was trapped between his desire to explore the social aspects of American political history and his conservative political instincts which appeared to frustrate that ambition. Consequently, he established a career as an institution builder rather than as a writer of historical narrative. He ultimately provided the American historical profession a national structure within which the distinctive elements of race, ethnicity, class, and culture could be investigated by others, since he could not bring himself to attempt this task." The two future volumes in this project will bring together Jameson's correspondence and other documents that detail Jameson's strategies for encouraging the growth of professional scholarship. The completed project promises a wealth of rich insights into the significance of humanistic research and education in contemporary society--a tool not only for historians but also for cultural administrators, journalists, and those involved in politics and government.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

470

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820314463

ISBN 13

9780820314464

The Good Intent

The Story and Heritage of a Fresno Family

By: John Renning Phillips

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Good Intent

The Story and Heritage of a Fresno Family

By: John Renning Phillips

Phillips chronicles the history of two Fresno families who could trace their bloodlines to nobility in 17th-century Britain.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

513

Publisher

John Renning Phillips

Published Date

ISBN 10

0979786711

ISBN 13

9780979786716

Wagons, Gold and Conflict

Captain Alfred Davenport’s Adventures in the Trans Mississippi West

By: John G. Wilder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wagons, Gold and Conflict

Captain Alfred Davenport’s Adventures in the Trans Mississippi West

By: John G. Wilder

Alfred Davenport—parents gone, elder siblings married with families—followed a dream to see Oregon in May 1844. Visiting California in 1846, Davenport dropped into the conflict between settlers and the Mexican government. Joining California settlers, Davenport fought in the Bear Flag Revolt and with John Charles Fremont’s California Mounted Battalion. Year 1849 found Alfred caught up in California’s gold rush. His mining career ended with Davenport resigning as manager of Fremont’s famous Pine Tree Mine to join General Fremont in Missouri as a cavalry captain in the Body Guard. Year 1862 found Captain Davenport serving as a special messenger carrying orders from General Fremont to field generals in western Virginia. The army’s Quartermaster Department assigned Davenport as supervisor of military hospital construction in the Civil War’s Mississippi valleys and for duty in the customhouse in Union-occupied New Orleans. Postwar, Davenport became a land speculator in a newly opened land in Kansas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

347

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1669806154

ISBN 13

9781669806158

Book's by John McRee

A Legacy in Brick and Stone

A Legacy in Brick and Stone

Placenames of the Civil War

Placenames of the Civil War

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman

Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman

Captaining the Corps d'Afrique

Captaining the Corps d'Afrique

Sword of the Border

Sword of the Border

Missionaries of Republicanism

Missionaries of Republicanism

God Save the South

God Save the South

Education Law

Education Law

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Selected essays

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Selected essays

The Good Intent

The Good Intent

Wagons, Gold and Conflict

Wagons, Gold and Conflict

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email