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""It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an absence; official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia. Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness"--Provided by publisher.

"John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the role various women played in the Civil War conflict, from serving as spies for the Confederate army, to the fate of female slaves who escaped across Union lines, to the sweeping changes that affected the head of a former plantation. Includes black-and-white photographs and an index.

"Traces the story of the American paradox, the competing claims of equality and subordination woven into the nation's fabric and identity [during the Civil War]"--Amazon.

Examines the ideas and agendas that led to the American Revolution and explains how those ideas influenced the creation of a democratic nation.

"The . . . narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a 'Moses' for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's most influential Black leader, increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the fate of Reconstruction. Their animosity only grew as Johnson sought to undermine Reconstruction and conciliate leaders of the former Confederate states. Robert S. Levine . . . recounts the conflicts that led to Johnson's impeachment from the perspective of Douglass and the wider Black community"--Provided by publisher.

"This book argues that Northern disputes over public debt, greenbacks, and tariffs, as well as national economic consequences of the Civil War, undermined Reconstruction as much as Southern race relations and constitutional issues"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the material, political, intellectual, and spiritual impact of the enormous loss of life resulting from the Civil War in America, and looks at how military personnel and civilians dealt with the carnage on both practical and spiritual levels.

Studies the lasting American thoughts of the drama of the Civil War, the freeing of the slaves, the Treasury of Virtue in the North and the Great Alibi in the South.

"Examines the period following the Civil War, in which the nation's leadership, former slaves, and veterans of the conflict grappled with the changes of the postwar era."--Provided by publisher.