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Six Days in September A Novel of the 1862 Maryland Campaign

Rossino Alexander B.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213454, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 maps, illus.

Alex Rossino's Six Days in September is a gripping, fast-paced account of Robert E. Lee's 1862 campaign to win Southern independence by carrying the war north into Maryland. The thrust across the Potomac River triggered a determined Federal response...

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America

Fighting in the Shadows The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War

Lang Harry G.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686801, Gallaudet University Press, May 2017
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 photographs

This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, "Fighting in the Shadows" reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldie...

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America

Military

Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War

Kelso John R., Grasso Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...

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America

Self-Evident Truths Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War

Brown Richard D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197112, Yale University Press, April 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that "all men are created equal". How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lo...

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America

Slave's Cause A History of Abolition

Sinha Manisha

ISBN: PB: 9780300227116, Yale University Press, April 2017
784 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois...

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America

Saltwater Frontier Indians and the Contest for the American Coast

Lipman Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300227024, Yale University Press, April 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape...

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America

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Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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America

Ties That Bound Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Jenkins Schwartz Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226147550, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Moun...

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America

Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing

Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...

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Music

America

Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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