Funny Thing About The Civil War

Author : Thomas F. Curran
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476692357

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Funny Thing About the Civil War by Thomas F. Curran Pdf

Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Wartime humor served as a form of propaganda to render the enemy and their cause laughable, but also to help people cope with the human costs of the conflict. After the war many authors and, later, movie and television producers employed humor to shape its legacy, perpetuating myths and stereotypes that became ingrained in American memory. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.

Author : De Loss Ernest Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89073160384

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De Loss Ernest Bell's Treasury of Civil War Humor by De Loss Ernest Bell Pdf

Author : Patrick Strait
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1681341867

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Funny Thing about Minnesota... by Patrick Strait Pdf

An insiders' look at the land of 10,000 laughs--how Minneapolis became a hotspot for comedy. It is a lively look back at the wild '80s scene and the creative legacy it wrought.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375894787

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Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne Pdf

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet—and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives! Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

Author : Pat Stewart
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780595094240

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Beirut by Pat Stewart Pdf

It's hard to coach a team when your players don't show up. Mafi muscula. Hard to make air flights without reservations. Mafi muscula. Can't tape ankles without tape. Hey! Why isn't Darrin here from the States yet? Mafi Muscula. Can't understand these Hungarian menu forms...we could starve. Mafi muscula. We're almost out of tea. Muscula! In Arabic, mafi muscula means "no problem." But a better definition is probably: "no problem for ME, big problem for YOU." Saudi Arabia is where mafi musculas start, but they don't end there. From Saudi it's on to a training camp near Budapest then onward to Beruit for the basketball championships of the Eighth Pan Arab Games. Some funny things happen along the way. And there, too. These are recounted through the eyes of an American coach. They sometimes happen on the court., but more often off. Some are pretty peculiar and that's the kind of questions they raise. For example: —Was Bruce Springsteen born in Saudi Arabia? —Do you know how to properly kiss your players? —Why are Homer's underpants radioactive? —Is Martin as dead as he thinks? —Is Adel as dead as Coach tells his mom he is? —How to get a lunatic asylum airborne? —When must camels kill you? And more.

Author : David E. Johnson,Johnny Ray Johnson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1589791509

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House by David E. Johnson,Johnny Ray Johnson Pdf

This book profiles eighteen of our funniest elections, from 1828, the first election in which all states had electors, to the election from hell in 2000. The book also includes chapters on Watergate and impeachment, and a gallery of official photographs.

Author : James Edwards Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483636498

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A Time For Soldiers: A Civil War Journey by James Edwards Jr. Pdf

Today is May 1, 1917. Word has just come to me that several local boys have been drafted to fight the war in Europe. This one is called "The Great War." It's been raging since August 1914. President Wilson asked the Congress for a declaration of war last month. He got it. Hundreds of thousands have died already. Now, many of our own good boys will die. War is a chronic condition, and stupid. I was that young when I first went off to war, fifty-seven years ago. I was twenty-one, about the same age as these kids. I had no idea that I was entering my own personal season in hell when I joined up with a New York volunteer regiment. These young men are about to march off to another war, another cause. Many will die uselessly on torn-up battlefields that nobody will remember except the men who fight there. I still see those faces in the distance, on a hillside at a place called Gettysburg. I see myself, young, but no longer a boy. My innocence was a façade. War is butchery, and I experienced it close-up. I was part of a monster, trained to overwhelm and destroy my enemy, my brother. By the end of the war, I was good at it. It fit me well. I was a seasoned veteran. Killing had become second nature. Experience being the best teacher, I learned well. In April 1865, I knew what I was. The question had become, what was I going to be? The thought once occurred to me that maybe I should not have survived the war, that war should devour its own and leave the remnant in peace.

Author : Elizabeth Duquette
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813551128

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Loyal Subjects by Elizabeth Duquette Pdf

When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

Author : Nick Vulich
Publisher : Nick Vulich
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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1861: Civil War Beginnings by Nick Vulich Pdf

Think you know what started the Civil War? In hindsight, we can say no one man or event served as a catalyst for the Civil War. It was not the John Brown Raid, no matter how many historians say it was the pivotal event. It was not the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the war was not about slavery—not in the beginning anyway. The Civil War got its start seventy-three years earlier when the Founding Fathers set aside the hot potato that was slavery so they could ratify the Constitution. The signers knew they were passing the issue on to a future generation. Their hope was their progeny could answer the questions they could not. 1861 will change everything. **************************************************************** If you are a Civil War buff or are just looking for a simple overview of how the war got started, you will enjoy this book. It is written in a simple, conversational style that makes it easy to understand the complex issues that started the American Civil War. Civil War Year By Year Book 1

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr.
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10762 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547792215

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American Civil War Collection by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr. Pdf

This collection includes all the great novels and stories written after the turmoil, the trauma and the heroism experienced during the American Civil War:_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ The Veteran (Stephen Crane)_x000D_ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce)_x000D_ The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain)_x000D_ A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)_x000D_ The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler)_x000D_ The Crisis (Winston Churchill)_x000D_ Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest)_x000D_ With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty)_x000D_ Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton)_x000D_ The Long Roll (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Cease Firing (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.)_x000D_ Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable)_x000D_ The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton)_x000D_ The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow)_x000D_ Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson)_x000D_ Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck)_x000D_ Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn)_x000D_ Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke)_x000D_ Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick)_x000D_ The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton)_x000D_ A War-Time Wooing (Charles King)_x000D_ The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan)_x000D_ The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne)_x000D_ The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln)_x000D_ My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish)_x000D_ Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy)_x000D_ The Red Acorn (John McElroy)_x000D_ Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison)_x000D_ Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins)_x000D_ The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale)_x000D_ History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr.
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10762 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547786627

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The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr. Pdf

Good Press presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved: Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage The Little Regiment The Veteran The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain) Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A Horseman in the Sky Chickamauga Joseph A. Altsheler: The Guns of Bull Run The Guns of Shiloh The Scouts of Stonewall The Sword of Antietam The Star of Gettysburg The Rock of Chickamauga The Shades of the Wilderness The Tree of Appomattox The Crisis (Winston Churchill) Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest) With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty) Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton) The Long Roll (Mary Johnston) Cease Firing (Mary Johnston) The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.) Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable) The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton) The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow) Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson) Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers) Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers) How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck) Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn) Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke) Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick) The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton) A War-Time Wooing (Charles King) The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan) The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne) The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln) My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish) Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy) The Red Acorn (John McElroy) Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin) A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison) Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins) The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale) History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)

Author : Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr.
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 10761 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547779544

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The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection by Jules Verne,Mark Twain,Randall Parrish,George Washington Cable,John Esten Cooke,Edward Robins,John William De Forest,Ambrose Bierce,Mary Johnston,Winston Churchill,Edward Everett Hale,Charles King,Natalie Sumner Lincoln,Stephen Crane,Charles Carleton Coffin,James Ford Rhodes,John McElroy,Lucy Foster Madison,Harry Hazelton,Henry F. Keenan,George W. Peck,John R. Musick,Robert W. Chambers,Joseph A. Altsheler,G. A. Henty,B. K. Benson,W. H. Shelton,Byron A. Dunn,Ellen Glasgow,María Ruiz de Burton,Thomas Dixon Jr. Pdf

This collection includes all the great novels and stories written after the turmoil, the trauma and the heroism experienced during the American Civil War: The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) The Little Regiment (Stephen Crane) The Veteran (Stephen Crane) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce) A Horseman in the Sky (Ambrose Bierce) Chickamauga (Ambrose Bierce) The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (Mark Twain) A Curious Experience (Mark Twain) The Guns of Bull Run (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Guns of Shiloh (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Scouts of Stonewall (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Sword of Antietam (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Star of Gettysburg (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Rock of Chickamauga (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Shades of the Wilderness (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Tree of Appomattox (Joseph A. Altsheler) The Crisis (Winston Churchill) Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest) With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty) Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton) The Long Roll (Mary Johnston) Cease Firing (Mary Johnston) The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.) Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable) The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton) The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow) Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson) Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers) Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers) How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck) Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn) Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke) Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick) The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton) A War-Time Wooing (Charles King) The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan) The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne) The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln) My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish) Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy) The Red Acorn (John McElroy) Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin) A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison) Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins) The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale) History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)

Author : Sally Jenkins,John Stauffer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767929462

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The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins,John Stauffer Pdf

Covering the same ground as the major motion picture The Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, this is the extraordinary true story of the anti-slavery Southern farmer who brought together poor whites, army deserters and runaway slaves to fight the Confederacy in deepest Mississippi. "Moving and powerful." -- The Washington Post. In 1863, after surviving the devastating Battle of Corinth, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Mississippi, deserted the Confederate Army and began a guerrilla battle against it. A pro-Union sympathizer in the deep South who refused to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton, for two years he and other residents of Jones County engaged in an insurrection that would have repercussions far beyond the scope of the Civil War. In this dramatic account of an almost forgotten chapter of American history, Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer upend the traditional myth of the Confederacy as a heroic and unified Lost Cause, revealing the fractures within the South.

Author : Chandra Manning
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307267436

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What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning Pdf

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.

Author : Linda R. Rosene
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595186907

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Civil War in the American Workplace by Linda R. Rosene Pdf

Civil War In The American Workplace is a book that appeals to organization leaders, managers and employees. In Dr. Rosene’s extensive business consultations, she has identified employee work conflicts as the main reason employees do not perform up to their ability. Employee negativity adversely impacts organization ability to compete and survive the 21st century economic challenges. Adding to the worker negativity challenge, business leaders and professionals tend to be stymied by worker conflicts. The challenge facing business and professional leaders is they must find ways to understand the origins of employee conflict before they can unlock the keys to productive and positive employees. Leaders and business professionals applying correct motivators for their workers will create a willingness among their employee groups to become high producers. Civil War In The American Workplace is just the business tool for leaders and professionals, to better understand their worker’s preferred behavioral styles, and thus their beliefs as applied to the workplace. When business leaders understand their employee preferred behavioral styles, they can take the mystery out of work conflict. Business leaders and professionals who possess the knowledge for resolving work conflicts found in this book will be those individuals who will drive organizations that thrive in these tumultuous economic times.