Liberty S War

Author : Virginia Scharff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520281264

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Empire and Liberty by Virginia Scharff Pdf

Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West, Empire and Liberty brings leading historians together to examine artifacts, objects, and artworks that illuminate this period of national expansion, conflict, and renewal.

Author : Herman E. Melton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682473078

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Liberty's War by Herman E. Melton Pdf

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.

Author : Kirby Larson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545840736

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Liberty by Kirby Larson Pdf

From a Newbery Honor author, a white boy and black girl bond in World War II Louisiana as they rescue a dog in this “practically perfect” historical novel (Kirkus Reviews). With his dad serving in World War II in Europe, and his sister working at the Higgins Boat factory to support the war effort, Fish Elliot fights off loneliness. That is, when he’s not fending off his annoying neighbor, Olympia, who has a knack for messing up Fish’s inventions. But when his latest invention leads Fish to Liberty, a beautiful stray dog who needs a home, he and Olympia work together to rescue her. His growing friendship with Olympia, who is African American, is not the norm in 1940s New Orleans. But as they work together to save Liberty, he finds his perceptions of the world—of race and war, family and friendship—transformed. “Larson . . . creates an engaging story that is rich in historical details. She purposefully captures both the fear and the hope in a world torn by war as well as the simple love of a boy for his dog. Practically perfect.” —Kirkus Reviews “A slice-of-life tale for historical fiction fans and animal lovers alike.” —School Library Journal

Author : Paul D. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108834681

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Just War and Ordered Liberty by Paul D. Miller Pdf

When is war just? What does justice require? Miller draws from the intellectual history of just war to assess contemporary warfare.

Author : Stephen M. Carter
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1913118886

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Fighting for Liberty by Stephen M. Carter Pdf

This book offers a fresh and vibrant account of the military campaign of Argyll and Monmouth that concludes at Sedgemoor in July 1685.

Author : Thomas Herbert Russell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547240280

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America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "America's War for Humanity" by Thomas Herbert Russell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Francis William 1876- Ed Rolt-Wheeler,Frederick E. Ed Drinker
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371060231

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WW FOR LIBERTY A COMPREHENSIVE by Francis William 1876- Ed Rolt-Wheeler,Frederick E. Ed Drinker Pdf

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Author : Eliot A. Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451627336

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Conquered into Liberty by Eliot A. Cohen Pdf

Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries, that shaped American geopolitics and military culture. Here, Eliot A. Cohen explains how the American way of war emerged from a lengthy struggle with an unlikely enemy: Canada. In Conquered into Liberty, Cohen describes how five peoples—the British, French, Americans, Canadians, and Indians—fought over the key to the North American continent: the corridor running from Albany to Montreal dominated by the Champlain valley and known to Native Americans as the “Great Warpath.” He reveals how conflict along these two hundred miles of lake, river, and woodland shaped the country’s military values, practices, and institutions. Through a vivid narration of a series of fights— woodland skirmishes and massacres, bloody frontal assaults and fleet actions, rear-guard battles and shadowy covert actions—Cohen explores how a distinctively American approach to war developed along the Great Warpath. He weaves together tactics and strategy, battle narratives, and statecraft, introducing readers to such fascinating but little-known figures as Justus Sherwood, loyalist spy; Jeduthan Baldwin, self-taught engineer; and La Corne St. Luc, ruthless partisan leader. And he reintroduces characters we thought we knew—an admirable Benedict Arnold, a traitorous Ethan Allen, and a devious George Washington. A gripping read grounded in serious scholarship, Conquered into Liberty will enchant and inform readers for decades to come.

Author : T. Cole Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296556

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Captives of Liberty by T. Cole Jones Pdf

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not last long. As the British denied customary protections to their American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes. Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's political revolution and the war waged to secure it.

Author : Robert Conroy
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625792488

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Liberty: 1784 by Robert Conroy Pdf

In 1781, George Washington's attempt to trap the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown ends catastrophically when the French fleet is destroyed in the Battle of the Capes. The revolution collapses, and the British begin a bloody reign of terror. A group of rebels flees westward and sets up a colony near what is now Chicago. They call it Liberty. The British, looking to finish what they started, send a very large force under Burgoyne to destroy them. Burgoyne is desperate for redemption and the Americans are equally desperate to survive. Had the Battle of the Capes gone differently, a changed, darker, New World would have been forced into existence. But even under those dire circumstances, Liberty may still find a way! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Robert Conroy's Rising Sun: _Conroy extrapolates a new and militarily plausible direction for WWII . . . A thrilling adventure.Ó¾Booklist About Robert Conroys Himmlers War: _[Conroy] adds a personal touch to alternate history by describing events through the eyes of fictional characters serving on the front lines. VERDICT: Historical accuracy in the midst of creative speculation makes this piece of alternate history believable.Ó_Library Journal About Red Inferno: 1945 _An ensemble cast of fictional characters. . . and historical figures powers the meticulously researched story line with diverse accounts of the horrors of war, making this an appealing read for fans of history and alternate history alike.Ó¾Publishers Weekly _[E]ngrossing and grimly plausible. . .the suspense holds up literally to the last page.Ó¾Booklist About 1945: _ moving and thought-provoking. . .Ó¾Publishers Weekly _Realistic. . .Ó¾Booklist About 1942: _. . .fans of Tom Clancy and Agent Jack Bauer should find a lot to like here.Ó¾Publishers Weekly _A significant writer of alternate history turns here to the popular topic of Pearl Harbor, producing. . . this rousing historical action tale.Ó¾Booklist _A high-explosive what-if, with full-blooded characters.Ó¾John Birmingham, bestselling author of Without Warning About 1901: _. . .cleverly conceived. . .Conroy tells a solid what-if historical.Ó¾Publishers Weekly _. . . likely to please both military history and alternative history buffs.Ó¾Booklist

Author : Christopher a Preble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948647168

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Peace, War, and Liberty by Christopher a Preble Pdf

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
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000049956276

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Liberty! by Lucille Recht Penner Pdf

Depicts the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington in 1775 through stories and illustrations.

Author : William J. Cooper, Jr.,John M. McCardell, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807134443

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In the Cause of Liberty by William J. Cooper, Jr.,John M. McCardell, Jr. Pdf

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas—antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans—white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South. Through these differing and sometimes competing perspectives, the contributors address crucial ongoing controversies at the epicenter of the cultural, political, and intellectual history of this decisive period in American history. Coeditors William J. Cooper, Jr., and John M. McCardell, Jr., introduce the collection, which contains essays by the foremost Civil War scholars of our time: James M. McPherson considers the general import of the war; Peter S. Onuf and Christa Dierksheide examine how patriotic southerners reconciled slavery with the American Revolutionaries’ faith in the new nation’s progressive role in world history; Sean Wilentz attempts to settle the long-standing debate over the reasons for southern secession; and Richard Carwardine identifies the key wartime contributors to the nation’s sociopolitical transformation and the redefinition of its ideals. George C. Rable explores the complicated ways in which southerners adopted and interpreted the terms “rebel” and “patriot,” and Chandra Manning finds three distinct understandings of the relationship between race and nationalism among Confederate soldiers, black Union soldiers, and white Union soldiers. The final three pieces address how the country dealt with the meaning of the war and its memory: Nina Silber discusses the variety of ways we continue to remember the war and the Union victory; W. Fitzhugh Brundage tackles the complexity of Confederate commemoration; and David W. Blight examines the complicated African American legacy of the war. In conclusion, McCardell suggests the challenges and rewards of using three perspectives for studying this critical period in American history. Presented originally at the “In the Cause of Liberty” symposium hosted by The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, these incisive essays by the most respected and admired scholars in the field are certain to shape historical debate for years to come.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006301456

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting His Annual Report on the State of the Finances by United States. Department of the Treasury Pdf

Author : Derek Donovan
Publisher : Kansas City Star Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Liberty Memorial (Kansas City, Mo.)
ISBN : 9780971292017

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Lest the Ages Forget : Kansas City's Liberty Memorial by Derek Donovan Pdf