Travels to Hallowed Ground
Title | Travels to Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Emory M. Thomas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Title | The Journey Through Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | David Edwin Lillard |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781467570527 |
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Title | Journey Through Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | David Lillard |
Publisher | Capital Books |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781933102245 |
For history buffs - visit more than 100 historical sites down The Old Carolina Road (US Route 15) from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania through Maryland to Charlottesville, Virginia PLUS where to stay and where to eat along the way.
Inside the Confederate Nation
Title | Inside the Confederate Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley J. Gordon |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2007-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807147966 |
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life -- nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and home front, race, and postwar legacies and memories. Many of the volume's twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas faced by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of secession, and the disparities between their expectations and reality.
From Landfill to Hallowed Ground
Title | From Landfill to Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Marra |
Publisher | BrownBooks.ORM |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1612548504 |
An NYPD sergeant shares his experiences in the tragic aftermath of 9/11 and the tireless search for remains among the debris of the Twin Towers. The morning of September 11, 2001, began like any other Tuesday for police Sergeant Frank Marra. He woke up early, brewed his coffee, and got his son Anthony ready for kindergarten. Then a shocking image interrupted televised broadcasts nationwide: the South Tower of the World Trade Center was engulfed in flames and smoke. Sergeant Marra stared in shock at what would become the largest crime scene he would ever investigate. Marra spent months at the Staten Island Landfill, where the 1.6 million tons of debris was searched for any form of evidence that could help identify the victims, including the remains of those buried beneath. Officers and volunteers worked tirelessly, often at great cost to themselves, to bring closure for so many grieving families. This heartrending story gives readers a rare and intimate glimpse into the days and months following the attack on September 11, and the stories that echo from “The Hill”—the hallowed ground of those who perished on that fateful day.
On Hallowed Ground
Title | On Hallowed Ground PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Diggins |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300082371 |
Contests the validity of Marxist and poststructuralist theory in a review of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
Going Places
Title | Going Places PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Burgin |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 2013-01-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 161069385X |
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.