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Riders in the Storm

The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War

By: John D. Warner

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Riders in the Storm

The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War

By: John D. Warner

The service of African-American soldiers during the Civil War is one of that conflict’s most stirring, if still not completely understood, aspects. In this comprehensive account—from recruitment into combat, and covering all the military, political, and social aspects of this story—John D. Warner recounts the history of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, the only Black cavalry regiment raised in the North during the war. After Massachusetts made history with the 54th and 55th Infantry Regiments, its governor wanted to continue the experiment of training African-Americans as Union fighting men, this time as cavalry. Where the infantry regiments recruited largely free Blacks from the North, the 5th focused on escaped slaves who it was believed would be better horsemen. (But not solely: the regiment’s members included a son of Frederick Douglass and, interestingly, several Hawaiian islanders.) This gave the regiment a sharper edge: not only would the former slaves be fighting for themselves, but they would be fighting to liberate loved ones still enslaved. The 5th’s officers were drawn from Boston’s abolitionist elite, including Charles Francis Adams Jr., great-grandson and grandson of U.S. presidents, son of the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. In the spring of 1864, the regiment journeyed south and fought in Grant’s siege of Petersburg, where it joined attacks that nearly took the city in June. The 5th was then abruptly sent to Maryland to guard Confederate prisoners of war, until Col. Charles Francis Adams advocated for, and was granted, a return to combat duty. As part of the mostly Black XXV Corps, the cavalrymen found themselves at the vanguard of the Union army as it captured Richmond. On April 3, 1865, the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment was among the first units to enter the burning Confederate capital, at once a hellscape of destruction and a heaven for liberated slaves. Denied the rapid demobilization granted white regiments, the 5th ended the war in Texas on the Mexican border. In the spirit of the book One Gallant Rush and the movie Glory, Riders in the Storm covers—uncovers and indeed recovers—the story of the African-American cavalrymen of the 5th Massachusetts. Author John Warner has literal fingertip command of the primary sources, and after spending two decades researching letters, diaries, reports, newspapers, and more, he tells a story of resilience in the face of adversity, one that will resonate not just during the present moment of reckoning with race in the United States, but in the annals of American history for all time.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811770869

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9780811770866

Memory's Nation

The Place of Plymouth Rock

By: John D. Seelye

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Memory's Nation

The Place of Plymouth Rock

By: John D. Seelye

Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place_the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the Mayflower. In Memory's Nation, however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims' arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific causes and ideologies. Drawing on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations, he shows how Plymouth Rock changed in meaning over the years, beginning as a symbol of freedom evoked in patriotic sermons at the start of the Revolution and eventually becoming an icon of exclusion during the 1920s.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807824151

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9780807824153

The Promise of Pragmatism

Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority

By: John Patrick Diggins

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The Promise of Pragmatism

Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority

By: John Patrick Diggins

For much of our century, pragmatism has enjoyed a charmed life, holding the dominant point of view in American politics, law, education, and social thought in general. After suffering a brief eclipse in the post-World War II period, pragmatism has enjoyed a revival, especially in literary theory and such areas as poststructuralism and deconstruction. In this sweeping critique of pragmatism and neopragmatism, one of our leading intellectual historians traces the attempts of thinkers from William James to Richard Rorty to find a response to the crisis of modernism. John Patrick Diggins analyzes the limitations of pragmatism from a historical perspective and dares to ask whether America's one original contribution to the world of philosophy has actually fulfilled its promise. In the late nineteenth century, intellectuals felt themselves in the grips of a spiritual crisis. This confrontation with the "acids of modernity" eroded older faiths and led to a sense that life would continue in the awareness, of absences: knowledge without truth, power without authority, society without spirit, self without identity, politics without virtue, existence without purpose, history without meaning. In Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Weber faced a world in which God was "dead" and society was succumbing to structures of power and domination. In America, Henry Adams resigned from Harvard when he realized there were no truths to be taught and when he could only conclude: "Experience ceases to educate." To the American philosophers of pragmatism, it was experience that provided the basis on which new methods of knowing could replace older ideas of truth. Diggins examines how, in different ways, William James, Charles Peirce, John Dewey, George H. Mead, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., demonstrated that modernism posed no obstacle in fields such as science, education, religion, law, politics, and diplomacy. Diggins also examines the work of the neopragmatists Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty and their attempt to resolve the crisis of postmodernism. Using one author to interrogate another, Diggins brilliantly allows the ideas to speak to our conditions as well as theirs. Did the older philosophers succeed in fulfilling the promises of pragmatism? Can the neopragmatists write their way out of what they have thought themselves into? And does America need philosophers to tell us that we do not need foundational truths when the Founders already told us that the Constitution would be a "machine" that would depend more upon the "counterpoise" of power than on the claims of knowledge? Diggins addresses these and other essential questions in this magisterial account of twentieth-century intellectual life. It should be read by everyone concerned about the roots of postmodernism (and its links to pragmatism) and about the forms of thought and action available for confronting a world after postmodernism.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226148793

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9780226148793

Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates

Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy

By: John Hussey

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Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates

Liverpool Waterfront in the Days of the Confederacy

By: John Hussey

A comprehensive look at Liverpool as it played a vital role in the American Civil War.

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Countyvise Ltd

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1906823030

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9781906823030

The Black Hearts of Men

Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

By: John Stauffer

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The Black Hearts of Men

Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

By: John Stauffer

At a time when slavery was spreading and America was steeped in racism, two white and two black men formed a unique alliance that sought to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression.

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Harvard University Press

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0674013670

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9780674013674

Securing the West

Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850

By: John R. Van Atta

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Securing the West

Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850

By: John R. Van Atta

John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological differences in the years after the peace of 1815. Americans expected the country to grow westward, but on the details of that growth they held strongly different opinions. What part should Congress play in this development? How much should public land cost? What of the families and businesses left behind, and how would society's institutions be established in the West? What of the premature settlers, the "squatters" who challenged the rule of law while epitomizing democratic daring?

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JHU Press

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1421412756

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9781421412757

Lincoln's Code

The Laws of War in American History

By: John Fabian Witt

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Lincoln's Code

The Laws of War in American History

By: John Fabian Witt

By one of the nation's foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war. In the fateful closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln's top military advisors commissioned a code of rules to govern the armies of the United States in a newly intensified war effort. The code Lincoln issued the next spring helped shape the remaining two years of Civil War. Its rules on torture, prisoners of war, assassination, and more quickly became foundations of the modern laws of war and today's Geneva Conventions. Yet the hidden story of Lincoln's code, and of the decades of controversy that lay behind it, has never been told. In this masterful and strikingly original history, John Witt charts the alternately troubled and triumphant course of the laws of war in America from the Founding Founders to the dawn of the modern era, revealing the history of a code that reshaped the laws of war the world over. Ranging from the Revolution to the War of 1812, from war with Mexico to the Civil War, from Indian wars to the brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines, Witt tells a story that features presidents as well as men in the throes of battle, one that spans war-makers and pacifists, Indians and slaves. In a time of heated controversy about the nation's conduct in the war on terror, Lincoln's Code is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience."--

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Simon and Schuster

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1416576177

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9781416576174

Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Young Men's Association, of the City of Chicago

Volume 1

By: John M. Horton

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Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Young Men's Association, of the City of Chicago

Volume 1

By: John M. Horton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Containing the titles added from the foundation of the library to April 1st. 1865, together with an alphabetical index to the whole.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752587849

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9783752587845

The The Longest Boundary: How the US-Canadian Border's Line came to be where it is, 1763-1910 (Consolidated edition)

Volumes 1 and 2

By: John Dunbabin

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The The Longest Boundary: How the US-Canadian Border's Line came to be where it is, 1763-1910 (Consolidated edition)

Volumes 1 and 2

By: John Dunbabin

A consolidated eBook of Volume one and Volume two of The Longest Boundary by John Dunbabin. These volumes are firmly based on primary sources but written in a way that should appeal to the general reader as much as to specialised historians. Its chief actors are politicians and administrators, but there is a range of others, extending from First Nations chiefs to goldminers, railway entrepreneurs, prophets, and policemen. In the concluding chapter the book's general historical approach is supplemented by assessment of the main perspectives of international relations theory. Finally, attention is drawn to small anomalies created by the boundary line.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1803816392

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9781803816395

A Thread Across the Ocean

The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

By: John Steele Gordon

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A Thread Across the Ocean

The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

By: John Steele Gordon

Describes the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802713645

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9780802713643

Railroads in the Civil War

The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat

By: John E. Clark, Jr.

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Railroads in the Civil War

The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat

By: John E. Clark, Jr.

By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark explains in this compelling study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory.

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LSU Press

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0807152668

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9780807152669

Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits

How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World

By: John Arquilla

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Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits

How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World

By: John Arquilla

Insurgent, Raiders and Bandits explores the history of irregular warfare over the past 250 years through the lives and campaigns ofFrom w the greatest masters of this mode of conflict. The book not only tells their stories, but shapes an alternate history of the world as seen through the eyes of those who made up for their small numbers with clever, unorthodox methods that often brought them victory. Their lesson for military affairs in our time must not be ignored.

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Ivan R. Dee

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1566639085

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9781566639088

Book's by John Russell Charles Francis Adams

Riders in the Storm

Riders in the Storm

Memory's Nation

Memory's Nation

The Promise of Pragmatism

The Promise of Pragmatism

Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates

Cruisers, Cotton and Confederates

The Black Hearts of Men

The Black Hearts of Men

Securing the West

Securing the West

Lincoln's Code

Lincoln's Code

Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Young Men's Association, of the City of Chicago

Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Young Men's Association, of the City of Chicago

The The Longest Boundary: How the US-Canadian Border's Line came to be where it is, 1763-1910 (Consolidated edition)

The The Longest Boundary: How the US-Canadian Border's Line came to be where it is, 1763-1910 (Consolidated edition)

A Thread Across the Ocean

A Thread Across the Ocean

Railroads in the Civil War

Railroads in the Civil War

Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits

Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits

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