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Braddock's Defeat : The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution by David L. Preston
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a fu ...Show more
Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion by Louis P. Masur
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
On April 11, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his final speech to thousands gathered in the rain outside the executive mansion in Washington, D.C. Coming two days after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and a week after the fall of Richmond, the crowd expected a victory oration. Instead, they heard the ...Show more
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds
Category: History | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Ser.
There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk by American planes. Thoug ...Show more
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