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Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393330045
Award-winning author Stone has created an in-depth examination of how constitutional rights have fared under the current president, and reveals how the government has suppressed civil liberties in times of war throughout American history.
Author : Christopher a Preble
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2019-04-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781948647168
A historically-grounded examination of United States foreign policy that interrogates the ideological assumptions--whether explicit or tacit--that drive it.
Author : Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Depicts the outbreak of the American Revolution at Lexington in 1775 through stories and illustrations.
Author : Jeff Kannel
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0870209469
Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers, or the belief that they all were from slaveholding states and served as substitutes for Wisconsin draftees. Relative to the total number of Badgers who served in the Civil War, African Americans soldiers were few, but they constituted a significant number in at least five regiments of the United States Colored Infantry and several other companies. Their lives before and after the war in rural communities, small towns, and cities form an enlightening story of acceptance and respect for their service but rejection and discrimination based on their race. Make Way for Liberty will bring clarity to the questions of how many African Americans represented Wisconsin during the conflict, who among them lived in the state before and after the war, and their impact on their communities
Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Stephen M. Carter
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913118884
This book offers a fresh and vibrant account of the military campaign of Argyll and Monmouth that concludes at Sedgemoor in July 1685.
Author : T. Cole Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0812296559
Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not last long. As the British denied customary protections to their American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes. Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's political revolution and the war waged to secure it.
Author : Virginia Scharff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0520281268
Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West shaped the conflict over slavery and how slavery shaped the West, in the process defining American ideals about freedom and influencing battles over race, property, and citizenship. This innovative work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the United States observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. A companion volume to an Autry National Center exhibition on the Civil War and the West, Empire and Liberty brings leading historians together to examine artifacts, objects, and artworks that illuminate this period of national expansion, conflict, and renewal.
Author : Michael Linfield
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896083745
"The great wars we have fought for the sake of liberty have been accompanied, without exception, by the most draconian assaults on individual rights. This is the theme of Michael Linfield's Freedom Under Fire, and he documents it with examples from every war since the American Revolution."--The Progressive "Linfield demonstrates conclusively, starting with the American Revolution and coming right up to the invasion of Panama, that the Bill of Rights is set aside by the government again and again, for reasons of 'national security.' He performs an important service, reminding us that liberty cannot be entrusted to the Bill of Rights or to the three branches of government, but only can be safeguarded by our own vigilance."--Howard Zinn
Author : William H. Rehnquist
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307424693
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security. Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and the rights of man, suspended the writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War--later in the war he also imposed limits upon freedom of speech and the press and demanded that political criminals be tried in military courts. During World War II, the government forced 100,000 U.S. residents of Japanese descent, including many citizens, into detainment camps. Through these and other incidents Chief Justice Rehnquist brilliantly probes the issues at stake in the balance between the national interest and personal freedoms. With All the Laws but One he significantly enlarges our understanding of how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution during past periods of national crisis--and draws guidelines for how it should do so in the future.