American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

AAMODT, TERRIE DOPP. Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War (2002). Shows that both the North and South claimed that God was on their side in the war.

BERLIN, IRA, JOSEPH P. REIDY, AND LESLIE S. ROWLAND, EDITORS. Freedom’s Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War (1998). Letters and memorials from the National Archives providing firsthand accounts of the meaning of the war to black soldiers and sailors.

CRANE, STEPHEN. The Red Badge of Courage (1895 and later editions). The classic Civil War novel about a young man’s maturation in battle. (Full View in Google Books)

FOOTE, SHELBY. The Civil War (3 vols., 1958–1971). Beautifully written narrative history.

LEONARD, ELIZABETH D. All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999). Argues persuasively that women played an important role in the war as soldiers and spies.

MYERS, ROBERT MANSON, EDITOR. The Children of Pride (1972). Contains letters of Charles Colcock Jones Jr. and his family.

PERRY, MARK. Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War (1997). Study of a southern and a northern officer who fought over Little Round Top at Gettysburg.

SHARRA, MICHAEL. Killer Angels (1974). Novel about the Battle of Gettysburg.

WHEELER, WILLIAM. In Memoriam: The Letters of William Wheeler (1875). Wheeler’s letters as student, traveler, and soldier. (Full View on Google Books. Available in PDF, ePUB formats)

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