Illustrates how the divided spheres of Civil War experience created social and political conflict far removed from the better-known battlefields of the war.
Aces and Eights tells story of the role of poker in the lives of the fabled characters of the Wild West, and offers a portrait of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book offers both the "facts" of these lives and the true tales of the game and the gamblers-and the entertaining "tall tales" that have survived to this day.
Abraham Lincoln drew upon history in his political career and particularly when crafting the rhetorical masterpieces that still resonate in the present day. Jesse Derber explores how Lincoln's views of the limits of human understanding drove a belief in--and untiring pursuit of--historical truth. Lincoln embraced the traditional ideas that good ......
Abraham Lincoln drew upon history in his political career and particularly when crafting the rhetorical masterpieces that still resonate in the present day. Jesse Derber explores how Lincoln's views of the limits of human understanding drove a belief in--and untiring pursuit of--historical truth. Lincoln embraced the traditional ideas that good ......
Elizabeth Van Lew was a spy during the Civil War. The diary Van Lew kept during those years provides an account of the life of a Civil War spy. Her sporadic notations reveal her fears, her triumphs, and the danger she faced in sending information through the lines to the Yankees, while aiding the escape attempts of Union prisoners in Richmond.
The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital fo
In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan analyzes the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Because the five senses were believed to provide a direct conduit into a person's mental condition, the curative force of the hospital was thought to ......
The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital fo
In A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane, Madeline Kearin Ryan analyzes the therapy model of the nineteenth-century asylum. Because the five senses were believed to provide a direct conduit into a person's mental condition, the curative force of the Hospital was thought to ......
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813-1816
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America. The man ......
