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Tonya Bolden
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Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers listeners a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources, archival images, and new research that debunks myths about the Emancipation Proclamation and its causes.
Complete with a timeline, glossary, and bibliography, Emancipation Proclamation is an engrossing new historical resource from award-winning children's book author Tonya Bolden.
©2013 Tonya Bolden (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously balanced with 15 free states and 15 slave states. Up to this point, states had been admitted in pairs, one free and one slave, to preserve that tenuous balance in the Senate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent. Very detailed. Entertaining.
- De Douglas en 03-03-18
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The Fall of the House of Dixie
- The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
- De: Bruce Levine
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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The J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois and associate editor of North and South magazine, Bruce Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Merely ok. . .
- De Steve E. en 03-19-13
De: Bruce Levine
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Abraham Lincoln
- A Presidential Life
- De: James McPherson
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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In this compelling biography, McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House. This concise yet comprehensive account reveals why Lincoln still remains a quintessential American icon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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In depth
- De Pat en 04-23-12
De: James McPherson
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The Road to Disunion Volume II
- Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
- De: William W. Freehling
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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The extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. This is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue and drove the South out of the Union. William Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important - and least understood - stories.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Informative
- De Paul D. Stancil en 09-13-19
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The First Congress
- How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
- De: Fergus M. Bordewich
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed - as many at the time feared it would - it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- De Jean en 03-05-18
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Founders' Son
- A Life of Abraham Lincoln
- De: Richard Brookhiser
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller, wit, lover of ribald jokes; depressive, poet, friend, visionary. And he shows that despite his many roles and his varied life, Lincoln returned time and time again to the Founders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Research and Evenhanded Work
- De Amazon Customer en 09-26-15
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- De: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Atrocities
- De Tad Davis en 07-05-18
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Don't Know Much About the Civil War
- Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Dick Estell
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Civil War book
- De Steven en 08-04-12
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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The War Before the War
- Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
- De: Andrew Delbanco
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great promise greater disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 12-09-18
De: Andrew Delbanco
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The Thin Light of Freedom
- The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
- De: Edward L. Ayers
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
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At the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great history
- De Linda Sisco en 11-30-17
De: Edward L. Ayers
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Madness Rules the Hour
- Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War
- De: Paul Starobin
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: They could submit to abolition - or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Madness Rules The Hour ...once more
- De Anonymous User en 05-06-21
De: Paul Starobin
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Fateful Lightning
- A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The worst part of this book is it's title
- De Rodney en 11-19-13
De: Allen C. Guelzo
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President Lincoln
- The Duty of a Statesman
- De: William Lee Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world. And back in the 19th century, a great man held that office. William Lee Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An analysis of Lincoln's life, not a history
- De D. Rairigh en 05-24-09
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The War That Forged a Nation
- Why the Civil War Still Matters
- De: James McPherson
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Different Kind of History from McPherson
- De Carole T. en 08-11-16
De: James McPherson
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Reconstruction
- A Concise History
- De: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former Confederacy, would ultimately lead to his impeachment and the institution of Radical Reconstruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Well Done
- De Rob Welch en 08-20-21
De: Allen C. Guelzo