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Deb Michals

    Yale and Slavery
    The Origins of the Vietnam War
    Race and Reunion
    Frederick Douglass
    American Oracle
    Embers of War
    • Embers of War

      • 864 pages
      • 31 hours of reading
      4.5(1148)Add rating

      This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam?

      Embers of War
    • American Oracle

      • 328 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America's most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.

      American Oracle
    • Frederick Douglass

      • 912 pages
      • 32 hours of reading
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      The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.

      Frederick Douglass
    • Race and Reunion

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
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      In 1865, in the aftermath of civil war, the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This book examines the construction of a culture of reunion during the ensuing decades and analyzes how this unity was created through increasing racial segregation.

      Race and Reunion
    • A short introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War. The book sets the context to the conflict from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full scale war in 1965. It places events in their full international background. číst celé

      The Origins of the Vietnam War
    • A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University

      Yale and Slavery