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Students can access the full-text encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, as well as the Lands and People series - an excellent source of information for country reports, and the America the Beautiful series - a great resource for state reports.
4) The general
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, a teenager from New Orleans headed to the front lines. Under the alias Harry T. Buford, he fought at First Bull Run, was wounded at Shiloh, and served as a Confederate spy. But Buford harbored a secret–he was really Loreta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New Orleans. By 1863, Velazquez was spying for the Union. She scandalized America when she revealed her story in her 1876 memoir, The Woman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee was offered the opportunity to command the Union forces. However, even though he was against the war, his loyalty to his home state of Virginia wouldn't let him fight for the North."--
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built), commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating batteries. The book emphasizes the development, construction, and design of these vessels using, where available, original plans, photographs, and contemporary...
Publisher
DK, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This work covers the American Civil War through seven chronological chapters, each containing an overview of the military and political situation. It treats each of the war's major engagements individually and includes the reactions of ordinary soldiers and civilians to the momentous events they witnessed, vignettes for the major military and civilian personalities, and effects of the war away from the battlefield, including the Northern blockade...
13) The Confederacy: selections from the four-volume Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of the Confederacy
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Contains over 350 alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about the confederacy, covering history, battles, government, daily life and culture, uniforms, women spies, leading statesmen, and other topics; and includes battle maps and photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Confederate States of America had a short life but the history leading up to its establishment went back decades to the establishment of the United States and the early failure to confront the "original sin" of slavery.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Topsy-Turvy, Anya Jabour brings into sharp relief the way in which gender, race, slavery, and status shaped the lives of children in the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. She argues persuasively that the identities children developed in the antebellum era shaped their responses to the upheavals of the war years and their lives after the war's conclusion.
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