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“dwight pitcaithley”

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  • Missouri and the Secession Crisis

    A Documentary History

    by Dwight Pitcaithley ...
    When Claiborne Fox Jackson took the oath of office as Missouri’s governor on January 3, 1861, only South Carolina had seceded from the Union. But in the weeks that followed, and as the Civil War loomed, more Southern states joined the Confederacy. Governor Jackson, who supported secession, called for a state convention to determine whether Missouri should follow suit. He found himself in a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kentucky and the Secession Crisis

    A Documentary History

    by Dwight Pitcaithley ...
    As the election of 1860 loomed, the United States suffered tumultuous division over the political fate of slavery in the western territories. While Northern states favored territorial sovereignty, the Deep South advocated for federal protection of slavery during the territorial period. Disagreement festered and gave way to civil war—but for some states literally caught in the middle, choosing a ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reconstructed Past

    Reconstructions in the Public Interpretation of Archaeology and History

    by Marion Blockley, Marley R. Brown III, Karen A. Brush, Edward A. Chappell, Robert Daniels-Dwyer, Joe Distretti, Peter J. Fowler, Bruce W. Fry, John H. Jameson, Ann E. Killebrew, Carl Kuttruff, Donald W. Linebaugh, Barry Mackintosh, Susan Mills, Haryold Mytum, Lynn A. Neal, Vergil E. Noble, Dwight Pitcaithley, Rodd L. Wheaton, Esther C. White, Ronald F. Williamson ...
    To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site reconstructions and restorations contribute to the damage or destruction of the original ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The U.S. Constitution and Secession

    A Documentary Anthology of Slavery and White Supremacy

    by Dwight T. Pitcaithley ...
    Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest. This documentary reader offers a firsthand look at the constitutional debates that consumed the country in those fraught five months. Day by day, week by week, these documents chart the political path, and the ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Memory in Black and White

    Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape

    by Paul A. Shackel ...
    As a nation we bring many perspectives to our commemorative places and our ideas may change over time, especially on difficult topics like slavery and racism. Why a place is saved and how it is interpreted to visitors has much to do with our collective memory of the events that took place there. Using the skills of an archaeologist and a historian, Paul Shackel examines four well-known Civil War ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Antiquities Act

    A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation

    Edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, Dwight T. Pitcaithley ...
    Winner of the State of New Mexico’s Heritage Preservation Award in the category of Heritage PublicationEnacted in 1906, the Antiquities Act is one of the most important pieces of conservation legislation in American history and has had a far-reaching influence on the preservation of our nation’s cultural and natural heritage. Thanks to the foresight of thirteen presidents, parks as diverse as ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Read more

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  • The Liberty Papers

    The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, The US Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The Amendments and the Federalist Papers

    by The Founding Fathers ...
    This excellent ebook contains all of the documents most sacred to American Liberty: The US Constitution, The Bill of Rights, The 27 Amendments, The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation and also the Federalist Papers.Every citizen should own a copy of these timeless documents that safeguard individual liberty, guarantee rights and freedoms and protect our way of life.This ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pacific Northwest

    An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes ...
    Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • How Buildings Learn

    What Happens After They're Built

    by Stewart Brand ...
    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time ... Read more

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  • America Aflame

    How the Civil War Created a Nation

    by Mr David Goldfield ...
    In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the firstmajor new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson'sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the waras a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatestfailure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelicalreligion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening ... Read more

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