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American Oracle
David W. BlightDavid Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War’s centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier.
Race and Reunion
David W. BLIGHTIn the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
Why the Civil War Came
PreviewGabor 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 ...
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...
James G. BlightJames G. Blight, David Lewis, and David A. Welch, “Cuba between the Superpowers, Antigua, 3-7 January 1991: Transcript of the Meetings”; typescript ( available from Brown University's Watson 1nstitute for 1nternational Studies, Providence, ...
An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A ...
David Gioe1 James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye and David A. Welch, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited', Foreign Affairs, 66/1 (Fall 1987) 188. 2 James G. Blight and David A. Welch, 'Risking “The Destruction of Nations”: Lessons of the Cuban Missile ...
Union & Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the ...
PreviewEssays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era David W. Blight, Brooks D. Simpson. Introduction. David W. Blight & BROOKS D. SIMPSON NOT long ago it seemed that American historians generally had moved beyond or around ...
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory & the American Civil War
David W. BlightIn this collection of essays, Blight examines the meanings embedded in the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, the nature of changing approaches to African American history, and the significance of race in the ways Americans, ...
Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...
James G. BlightU.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988 James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John ... See also James G. Blight, Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Savage, MD: ...
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam ...
Robert S. McNamaraIn Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy Robert S. McNamara, James Blight, Robert K. Brigham, Thomas J. Biersteker, ... This summary of the method of critical oral history is adapted from James G. Blight and David A. Welch, On ike Brink: ...
A Blight of Mages
Karen MillerBut the lure of this great power reveals a darkness in Morgan which will bring their land to its knees. A Blight of Mages is set in the world of Karen Miller's Bestselling debut The Innocent Mage.
Riverside Quarterly
More editionsArthur Jean Cox's story, "The Blight," even more has a mildly antique charm. Like virtually everything here it seems like that exceptional good story that did turn up in the Gernsback magazines. "The Blight" owes little in style or plot to any of the ...
Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home
Matthew PinskerThe 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 ...
The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
James G. BlightLessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang. to Kennedy. See also Aleksander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble” Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958—1964 (New York: Norton, 1997), ...
The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban ...
James G. BlightFear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Blight. 3. Carnesale et al ., Living with Nuclear Weapons, p. 44. 4. Ibid., p. 68. 5. "Anatomy of a Crisis," CBS News special report, October 28, 1962, narrated by Charles Collingwood.
Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery
David B. ChesebroughBlight, David W. "Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse." Civil War History ... "Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Case Study in Agitational Versatility." Central States ... Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. "Violence as an ...
Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee
David W. BlightThis book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders of a ...
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy WarrenA New York Times Editor’s Choice "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully ...
Journal of the Civil War Era: Summer 2014 Issue
Preview—David Blight, Yale University 304 pages $34.95 NATURE'S CIVIL WAR Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia Kathryn Shively Meier “A powerful and imaginative argument about the practical strategies of soldier agency ...
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including ...
David W. BlightThomas R. Ware's Will, January 13, 1820, and estate inventory of Catherine Ware, April 5, 1825, Thomas R. Ware Papers, Fredericksburg Circuit Court, Richmond, Va. Molly's whipping payment is recorded in the 1829 Ware estate accounting, ...
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers ...
James G. BlightIn tracing the developments of the Missile Crisis and beyond, this text presents and interprets a secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968.
New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel
Robert JordanThe city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One.
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
Patrick F. McManusThe author journeys through the great outdoors with tales of Rancid Crabtree, Retch Sweeney, Game Warden Sneed, and fish-eating shrimp in Lake Blight
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...
James G. BlightOn the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the Cuban missile crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly ...
Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined
James G. BlightWith the benefit of new documentation, however - from U.S. government and Cuban exile sources - as well as the first-hand accounts of key participants, Politics of Illusion shows the current mythology to be just that.
Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the ...
James G. BlightDescribes the events leading to the missile crisis, analyzes American actions, and shares the opposing viewpoints of American and Russian experts.
Kurt Cobain
Christopher SandfordKurt Cobain, who handled opposition far better than he did fame, put enough rage and guilt into Bleach to blight an entire generation. The record crackled with self-loathing, as though the internecine struggle between Cobain the joker and ...
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