War And Liberty
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Author | : Geoffrey R. Stone |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393330045 |
Award-winning author Stone has created an in-depth examination of how constitutional rights have fared under the current president, and reveals how the government has suppressed civil liberties in times of war throughout American history.
Author | : Christopher A. Preble |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781948647168 |
A historically-grounded examination of United States foreign policy that interrogates the ideological assumptions--whether explicit or tacit--that drive it.
Author | : Lucille Recht Penner |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2002-07-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
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Depicts the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington in 1775 through stories and illustrations.
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Liberty |
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Author | : Herman E. Melton |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1682473074 |
In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing. Among these were the engineers who toiled deep in the bowels of the ship and suffered appalling casualties. After the war, engineering personnel were unlikely to talk about their experiences, let alone write them down. These modest and self-effacing men were more comfortable in a world of turbines and pistons, so they seldom brought their stories forward. Liberty’s War sets out to explore the experiences of one such engineer, Herman Melton, from his time as a cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy through his experiences at sea as a third assistant engineer. Melton’s story is representative of the thousands of Merchant Marine engineers who served on board Liberty ships during the war. Like many young Americans, he sought to do his part, and in 1942 he obtained an appointment to the newly created U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. After graduating from the academy in 1944, he shipped out to the Pacific Theatre, surviving the sinking of his Liberty ship, the SS Antoine Saugrain, and its top-secret cargo.
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Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Enslaved persons |
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Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195162530 |
The bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
Author | : Robert Wharton Landis |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : W. Caleb McDaniel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019084700X |
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.