Matthew. Lopez. Drama / 3m / Interior It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated.
A key supporter of the “internal” thesis has been Michael Fellman, whose Inside War (1989) revived the study of Missouri's brutal Civil War history.66 Deeply influenced by the trauma of the Vietnam War, Fellman saw war—including the ...
Supported by primary source documents and a robust companion website, this text allows readers to engage with and draw their own conclusions about this contentious era in American History.
The pious late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching an active harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged ...
Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory...
The Grelliers and the Schapens are two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred and fifty years, their lives connected through the generations by history and geography.
This title examines an important historic event - bleeding Kansas.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series comes “a gripping contemporary novel…of fear and conflict in heartland America” (Publishers Weekly).
It was fought along creeks such as the Pottawatomie and the Marais des Cygnes. This book will discuss the background and key personages of Bleeding Kansas, and examine the various battles and massacres that were part of it.
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, 'Bleeding Kansas' is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since...
Covering the political, social, and military history of the era, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri and how these conflicts have been remembered ever since.