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C.E. Brehm Memorial Public Library
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Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
Martyn Whittock · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist... |
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Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection
Smithsonian Institution · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 248 Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more.
This book offers a unique, panoramic... |
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 656 Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.
Vicksburg,... |
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three... |
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