The Dred Scott Case
Title | The Dred Scott Case PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Brooke Taney |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781017251265 |
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Limits and Renewals
Title | Limits and Renewals PDF eBook |
Author | Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | House of Stratus |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2009-01-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 075511728X |
Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Necropolis
Title | Necropolis PDF eBook |
Author | John Wagner |
Publisher | Titan Books (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Dredd, Judge (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9781840236019 |
When the newly promoted Judge Kraken, under the influence of the mysterious and evil Sisters of Death (from the 'Deadworld' dimension which was the original home of Judge Death and the other Dark Judges), kidnaps Psi-Judge Agee, all hell breaks loose in Mega-City One! The sisters use Agee's powerful psi abilities to free the Dark Judges from dimensional limbo (where they were exiled by Judge Anderson). Now its up to Dredd, Anderson, and all the other Judges in Mega-City One to stop these extraordinarily powerful beings - before they can completely lay waste to the city, and go on to kill all the inhabitants of Dredd's future Earth!
The American Yawp
Title | The American Yawp PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph L. Locke |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 670 |
Release | 2019-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503608131 |
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
General Lee's Army
Title | General Lee's Army PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Glatthaar |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2009-03-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1416596976 |
A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy conducted key operations, and reveals how closely the South came to winning the war.
Direct Action
Title | Direct Action PDF eBook |
Author | David Graeber |
Publisher | AK Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2009-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1849350353 |
A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.
Dred Scott's Advocate
Title | Dred Scott's Advocate PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Clarence Kaufman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Field took the case from Missouri all the way to the United States Supreme Court, whose decision against Scott set off a national furor, helped elect Abraham Lincoln president, and was a major event contributing to the outbreak of the Civil War.