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For Us the Living

For Us the Living

Gabor Boritt

When a nation in mourning looks to its president for comfort and courage, he must choose his words carefully.
The Gettysburg Nobody Knows

The Gettysburg Nobody Knows

Gabor S. Boritt

"I Think the Union Army Had Something to Do with It The Pickett's Charge Nobody Knows CAROL REARDON I HE veterans of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry who returned to Gettysburg to unveil their regimental monument had a bone to pick ...
Lincoln's Generals

Lincoln's Generals

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Introduction. GABOR. S. BORITT. THE MARAUDING YANKEES destroyed the Confederate pontoon bridge over the Potomac. No matter. July is a drought month when mighty rivers meander ever more sluggishly toward August. Then rivers are ...
Why the Confederacy Lost

Why the Confederacy Lost

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Gabor S. Boritt. that the war could be won only in the East and that only Lee had a chance to win it. A good part of the credit for his not doing so must go to Grant and Sherman. If generals made a large difference in the war, Reid Mitchell ...
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows

The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows

Gabor Boritt

An analysis of the historical events surrounding Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address challenges popular myths while discussing how several of the president's remarks took on new meanings throughout subsequent decades.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American ...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American ...

Michael A. Halleran

Gallman, J. Matthew. “Gettysburg's Gettysburg: What the Battle Did to the Borough.” In The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, edited by Gabor Boritt, 144–74. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Gist, Noel P. “Secret Societies: A Cultural Study of ...
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

This book is available again in a fresh new edition just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with a new introduction by Lincoln- and Civil War–scholar Gabor S. Boritt.
Jefferson Davis's Generals

Jefferson Davis's Generals

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Gabor S. Boritt. awarded the Naval Academy's Teaching Excellence Award and the Research Excellence Award. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Lincoln Prize finalist Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography ( Norton, ...
Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

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"Americans interested in history need to make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg," writes Gabor Boritt in the Acknowledgments. In this book seven historians make that journey, five of them Pulitzer laureates, looking for Lincoln.
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom

Slavery, Resistance, Freedom

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Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books Published by Oxford University Press Edited by Gabor Boritt Why the Confederacy Lost Lincoln, the War President Lincoln's Generals War Comes Again Why the Civil War Came The Gettysbury Nobody ...
Why the Civil War Came

Why the Civil War Came

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Gabor S. Boritt, David W. Blight. Contributors David W Blight, Associate Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, is author of Frederick Douglass' Civil Wtr: Keeping Faith in ]ubilee (1989), and editor of When This Cruel War Is ...
Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home

Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home

Matthew Pinsker

The members formed an all-star cast of Lincoln and Civil War— era scholars and included Jean Baker, James Basker, David Blight, Gabor Boritt, David Donald, Allen Guelzo, Harold Holzer, David Long, Phillip Paludan, Gary Scott, and ...
War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and ...

War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and ...

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GETTYSBURG CIVIL WAR INSTITUTE BOOKS published by Oxford University Press Edited by Gabor Boritt Why the Confederacy Lost Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures Lincoln's Generals War Comes Again: Comparative ...
Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-communist ...

Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-communist ...

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178-200. Gábor Kiszely, ÁVH [ÁvH – state security office] (budapest: Korona, 2000) Gábor Klaniczay, A civilizáció peremén [at the edge of civilization] ( budapest: magvető, 1990) Gábor Klaniczay, The Uses of Supernatural Power ( New Jersey: ...
Church and belief in the Middle Ages: popes, saints, and ...

Church and belief in the Middle Ages: popes, saints, and ...

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Gábor Klaniczay, 'Rex iustus: The Saintly Institutor of Christian Kingship', The Hungarian Quarterly, 41 (2000), 14-31. Gábor Klaniczay, Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge ...
A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The ...

A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe: The ...

Gábor Kármán

In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian diplomat, interpreter, orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy.
Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities: Ancient ...

Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities: Ancient ...

Gábor Klaniczay

Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures Gábor Klaniczay, Otto Gécser, Michael Werner ... 25 “Zdawało się, że z każdej pobitych mogiły / Nowe roty mscicielów na plac wychodziły”— Godebski, “Wiersz do legiów polskich,” ...
Recursive Source Coding: A Theory for the Practice of ...

Recursive Source Coding: A Theory for the Practice of ...

G. Gabor

A Theory for the Practice of Waveform Coding G. Gabor, Z. Györfi. [96] [97] [98] [ 99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] ... T. Ericson and V. Ramamoorthy. Modulo PCM—a New Source Coding Principle. Linköping Univ., Int.
A széttartás alakzatai: bevezetés a "fiatal irodalom" olvasásába

A széttartás alakzatai: bevezetés a "fiatal irodalom" olvasásába

Zoltán Németh

... Tóth Krisztina, Imre Flóra, Szakács Eszter, Mes- terházi Mónika, Szabó T. Anna , Barna T. Attila, Szegedi Kovács György, Rózsássy Barbara, Batári Gábor, Lackfi János, Szentmártoni János, Gerevich András, Zsille Gábor, Szauer Ágoston.
Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of ...

Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of ...

Richard M. Grinnell, Jr.

“Glossary,” in Evaluation and quality improvement in the human services, by Peter A. Gabor and Richard M. Grinnell, Jr. Boston: Allyn & Bacon; Peter A. Gabor , Yvonne A. Unrau, and Richard M. Grinnell, Jr. (1998).Evaluation for social workers: ...
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in ...

Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in ...

Gábor Klaniczay

A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.
The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of ...

The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of ...

Gábor Klaniczay

This book of essays is concerned with aspects of religion, magic, and witchcraft in medieval and early-modern Europe, with particular reference to Central Europe.

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