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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When The Civil War, originally premiered in September 1990, the response was phenomenal and the series became a national viewing event. The film interweaves thousands of photographs and paintings with the words of those who lived through the war that shattered a union and shaped a nation: politicians, generals, common soldiers, slaves and free slaves, the famous and the forgotten, male and female.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins-World
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Based on a 26-part BBC-TV series a board overview of history's bloodiest century, from the Boer War to the 1994 massacres in Rwanda. The author describes the emergence of submarine, the tank and the military airplane and observes ironically that many of today's conflicts are being fought with weapons technology not very different from that of 1900.
16) Conquistadors
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"A compelling look at conquistadors, including how and why they sailed to the New World, their lifestyle, their weapons, and how they remain a part of today's culture through books and film" -Provided by Publisher.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg comes to two climaxes that spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins his most brilliant victory but loses Stonewall Jackson; and at Vicksburg, where Grant’s attempts to take the city by siege are stopped. During the episode we learn of fierce Northern opposition to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of regimental life and the increasing desperation of the Confederate homefront....
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