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The election of 1864, though of utmost importance to the Union's ultimate success in the Civil War and the existence of the United States, is not a topic often discussed in American historiography. Even when historians, particularly William F. Zornow, do write of the election, they often do not put emphasis on some of the most significant and controversial issues of the time, race and slavery; others, like David E. Long, seem to put too much emphasis on the topics, seeing slavery as the most important issue in the election campaign. In order to determine the true role of race and slavery rhetoric in the 1864 presidential election campaign, one examined letters, speeches, and other docume ...

In this book Ethan does his best to tell about what CNN Student News had to say in the fall of 2014. He tells about everything from drones, airplane crashes, inventions, and natural disasters. Read through the pages to learn more about the exciting events of this year.

A definitive metaphysical treatment of the Russian Hoax and other fake news stories implicating both the historical Jesuit Order and Benjamin Franklin, A Ferocious Seahorse provides a far ranging analysis of the milieu of Baron Munchausen, the impact of the silicon divas encountered by a scientist-psychonaut during the psychedelic revolution, and a review of the spiritual power of breathing practices, all offset by an examination of the historic examples of the Time of Troubles in the Muscovy Principality and the persecution of the Knights Templar in France. A Ferocious Seahorse finally examines the foundations of sovereignty by exploring the global implications of the reign of Zeus set ...

This book, A Political and Electoral History of Hispanics in Austin and Travis County 1948 - 2020 contains the names of the over 400 Hispanics who have run for elective office in the last 72 years in Travis County. Included are the offices sought, votes received, party affiliations, and election outcome. Also contained in the book are samplings of campaign literature, interviews with selected candidates and stories about the the many attempts to win a seat at the public policy table. This publication should serve as a valuable reference for those seeking to do further research on the Hispanic community in Travis County.

Abby Guy was an illiterate slave woman, but bold and audacious, who took the slave establishment to court and put race and slavery on trial before a jury. She lived three decades as a slave and then ten years as a free woman, wife, widow and mother. In December of 1854 she and her four children were kidnapped by her former owner, William Daniel, and re-enslaved. Abby filed a Petition for Freedom in the Circuit Court in Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas, claiming that she was wrongfully enslaved and should be freed because she and her children were white. Her owner denied it, saying that she was born a slave and was still a slave. This is the true story of an audacious woman with an unconq ...

This is the story of Abraham Lincoln's first run for the U.S. Senate in 1855.

If during the War of Independence eighty-five years earlier, we were a “nation conceived in liberty,” then we as a people had not learned the lessons of freedom. You'll discover slavery through the eyes of Washington, Jefferson, Hopkins, Pinkney and others of the Colonial era, and how 85 years later, the Nation erupted in BLOOD. With this volume we learn of a rising awareness of slavery and it's part in the American Civil War - although it was not the reason we went to war. We read the letters and speeches of import from John Brown, Thoreau, Calhoun, Clay, Choate, Douglas and many more. We go to the Alamo and study the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the Dred Scott dec ...

The first offering in a quintet of books spanning nearly 800 years of history of America, leading up to the present day political, economic and moral abyss that we seem to be stuck in today. OUR fist story begins with the signing of Magna Charta and continues with the words, letters and speeches of many of our Founding Fathers, including Paine, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Adams, Patrick Henry, and many not so well known participants. We read commentary from people like Bruce Catton, and read the words of the Mayflower Compact, Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and others - as we discover our early years and the path, which we set upon. In order to unde ...

Siphiwe Baleka, concerned with the lost history of his family because of the criminal European and American Trade in African people and their enslavement, uses DNA testing and a lot of research to reconstruct the history of the Balanta people all the way back to their origin in Ta-Nihisi, Nubia (Sudan), in prehistoric times. Volume I covers that history up until their exodus during the Egyptian XVIII Dynasty (1479-1429 BC). The book is presented as a letter to his sons, so that they will know the full dignity of their ancestral heritage. But the book is also of immense value to all people of African descent whose ancestors were the victims of American slavery, and whose descendants have ...