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181) Colorado cultural resource survey manual: guidelines for identification, history and archeology
Author
Publisher
Colorado Historical Society, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Publisher
For Beginners
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Civil Rights For Beginners fills a major gap by placing the modern civil rights movement into a broader historical perspective. It also discusses the civil rights and liberation movements from the 60s to the present that the African American freedom struggles helped to catalyze including the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, the Asian-American Movement, the Women's Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Unlike most civil rights books,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times.
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Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing differences between North and South. Setting familiar events in an international context, Fleche enlarges our understanding of nationalism in the nineteenth century"--Jacket.
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional Black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in...
191) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--