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]]> Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:57:05 +0200 https://thriller.library.land/alan-axelrod/100727-complete_idiots_guide_to_american_history.html https://thriller.library.land/alan-axelrod/100727-complete_idiots_guide_to_american_history.html
You’re no idiot, of course. You know who the first president was and who penned the Declaration of Independence. Yet even though the country is young in the eyes of the rest of the world, the United States became a superpower in fewer than 200 years. But you don’t have to brush the dust off your textbooks to learn more! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to American History, Third Edition, will bring you up to date on the most important events and people that forged this country—and those that continue to do so today.]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:49:53 +0200 https://thriller.library.land/alan-axelrod/326186-the_20_most_significant_events_of_the_civil_war.html https://thriller.library.land/alan-axelrod/326186-the_20_most_significant_events_of_the_civil_war.html
This is the first book to not only select the events that most influenced the causes and outcome of America's Civil War, but also to rank them in order of significance. In each of the book's 20 detailed essays, author/historian/speaker Alan Axelrod presents an engaging narrative about the event, and also explains how the event shaped the course of the war, and ultimately the future of the country.
The author's selection and ranking criteria include:
Effect as cause or trigger of the war
Decisiveness: whether it was a war-winning or war-losing event (both in military terms and in terms of public opinion, morale, and support)
Magnitude and scope: size and cost of a battle
Enduring postwar significance in American history, politics, society, culture and/or in military history and technology
From Lincoln's Inauguration, Antietam, and John Brown's raid, to the New York draft riots and Stonewall Jackson dying as a result of friendly fire...]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:25:33 +0200