Author : David W. BLIGHT
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674022092
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
Author : Leah Henderson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1683355601
A moving tribute to the little-known history behind the first Memorial Day, illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Floyd Cooper Today is a special day. Eli knows it’s important if he’s allowed to miss one second of school, his “hard-earned right.” Inspired by true events and told through the eyes of a young boy, this is the deeply moving story about what is regarded as the first Memorial Day on May 1, 1865. Eli dresses up in his best clothes, Mama gathers the mayflowers, Papa straightens his hat, and together they join the crowds filling the streets of Charleston, South Carolina, with bouquets, crosses, and wreaths. Abolitionists, missionaries, teachers, military officers, and a sea of faces Black, Brown, and White, they march as one and sing for all those who gave their lives fighting for freedom during the Civil War. With poignant prose and celebratory, powerful illustrations, A Day for Rememberin’ shines light on the little-known history of this important holiday and reminds us never to forget the people who put their lives on the line for their country. The book is illustrated by award-winning illustrator Floyd Cooper and includes archival photos in the back matter, as well as an author’s note, bibliography, timeline, and index.
Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807882704
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
Author : Kirsten Lake
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1508166595
Memorial Day is an important and special holiday, but some people forget why we celebrate it. On the last Monday of May each year, people around the country gather and remember the men and women who've died while serving in the U.S. military. This educational book encourages readers to reflect on the sacrifices military personnel make to protect our country. This book also touches upon the more lighthearted side of the holiday and the different types of celebrations that people have each year. Featuring full-color photographs and accessible text, this book is sure to engage beginning readers.
Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Holidays in Rhythm and Rhyme
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684103894
A song describes how people observe Memorial Day and the meaning of the holiday as a time to remember the members of the Armed Forces who fought for freedom as well as to celebrate the beginning of summer.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1504080246
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Author : Christin Ditchfield
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780516227832
Completely redesigned for today's young investigative reader, A True Book is an indespensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture their need to know.
Author : Theresa Martin Golding
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590780480
When Marco attends a Memorial Day parade, he is surprised to see a familiar face among the veterans.
Author : Mir Tamim Ansary
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403488909
Introduces Memorial Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
Author : Tom Sileo
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306822385
Recounts the personal story of how two Naval academy roommates--US Marine Travis Manion and US Navy SEAL Brendan Looney--defined a generation's sacrifice after 9/11, and how their loved ones carry on in their memory Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were now buried together--"brothers forever." Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, come together to tell thisd intimate story, from Travis's incredible heroism on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan's anguished Navy SEAL training in the wake of his friend's death and his own heroism in the mountains of Afghanistan. Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of friendship, family, and war.
