civil war

The Civil War was less than four months old, but the soldiers of the 79th New York reckoned they had alredy seen enough fighting to last a lifetime.

A chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the Confederacy and showing the total losses and casualities together with war maps of localities compiled from the official records of the war department.

Viriginia records the events of her life as her family moves to New York City in the aftermath of the Civil War, and she begins to dream of a life in the theater.

This is a beautiful, touching story of a family's experiences with slavery and their ultimate quest for freedom. The dominant themes are slavery and freedom, and we are given a quick peek into the inner workings of the Underground Railroad, a system of transportation and safe havens that assisted a number of slaves in their quest for freedom.

Presents English translations of essays by Juan Goytisolo, drawn from the pages of "El Pais," in which he provides an account of the war zones of the late twentieth century.

Sanglant and pregnant Liath, outcasts because of their love, flee his father King Henry's camp during a turbulent period of civil war and are pulled in opposite directions: Liath by her powers of sorcery and Sanglant by the return of his Aoi mother to the mortal world.

The sample unit uses literature to teach the story of the Civil War. Six core books--two works of historical fiction (Across five Aprils/by Irene Hunt; Bull Run/by Paul Fleischman) two informational books (The Boy's War/by Jim Murphy; Undying glory/by Clinton Cox), and two biographies (Lincoln: a photobiography/ by Russell Freedman; Behind rebel lines/by Seymour Reit)--are used to build the unit. Aimed at grades 4-8.

A critical assessment of international interventions and criminal prosecutions for crimes against humanity, featuring case studies of the situations in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia and Serbia in a search for answers about how to rebuild societies after wars.