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(0)Allen C Guelzo
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 8561
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A tour of Lincoln's life, from his forebears' arrival in America through an evaluation of how his legacy lives on for us today. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 8514
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Has there ever been a more unlikely war than the American Revolution? Why did those thirteen colonies, with nothing resembling a unified and trained army, and with no navy to speak of, believe they could defeat the most powerful nation on the planet? Why was Britain confident it could prevail despite crushing logistical burdens? This new course the American Revolution asks the crucial question: who really deserves the credit for defeating the British...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 4880
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A broad survey of American intellectual history ; a history of the ideas, the thinkers and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Author
Series
Oxford very short introductions volume 203
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Abraham Lincoln was a fatalist who promoted freedom; he was a classical liberal who couched liberalism's greatest deed - emancipation of the slaves - in the unliberal language of divine providence; he was a religious doubter who became a national icon bordering on religion; and he was a rights-oriented liberal who appealed to natural law when confronting slavery"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a new history--the most intimate and richly readable account we have had--of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced one of the greatest battles in human history. No previous book on Gettysburg dives down so closely...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 8514
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army. (THIS IS A SET. Book and CDs must be checkout together)
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 4880
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A broad survey of American intellectual history ; a history of the ideas, the thinkers and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans. Each of the 36 lectures is 30 minutes long. (THIS IS A SET. Book and CDs must be checkout together)
