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This book highlights the contributions of a Russian immigrant who became a Union officer during the Civil War. His subsequent court martial turned the trial into a focal point for Northern debate on the conduct of the war and the issue of slavery.

John Basil Turchin left Czarist Russia to embrace democracy in America.

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Paired with Louis DeCaro's narrative of the aftermath, trial, and execution of John Brown in Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia, this book preserves the first-hand experience of Brown as he gave his life for the abolitionist cause.

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The introduction looks at Kennedy as president and as politician, and establishes the two realms, myth and substance, in which the subsequent examination of Kennedy's life and career will be conducted.

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A collection of essays that represents an archivally based reassessment of Dulles' diplomacy and examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, it reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles' conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

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The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

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The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

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A supporter of the American rebellion and advocate of radical ideas on religion, philosophy, education, law, medicine, and politics, John Jebb (1736-1786) provides an ideal case to examine the nature of radicalism in 18th-century Britain.

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This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (17991836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education.

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When John Maitland accepted the office of Secretary of State to James VI of Scotland in 1584, he accepted the challenge of three of the most extraordinary and persistent threats to the power of the crown that a king's principal advisor ever faced: the Scottish aristocracy, the Kirk, and Queen Elizabeth of England. By the time of his death eleven ye

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This study examines John Stuart Mills philosophy of history and his efforts to develop a comprehensive methodology for the social sciences. The author argues that Mills interpretation of history and his conception of cultural and economic stationary states were central to his critique of mass culture and his advocacy of individual autonomy.

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The publications, addresses, and official documents of explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell comprise a body of work representing many of the great historical movements and intellectual landscapes of 19th century America.

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John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. This book discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century by placing his life in the context of the times.

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John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. This book discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century by placing his life in the context of the times.

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This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif's Latin works in translation in a single volume. -- .

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This text examines President Johnson's efforts to stem the advance of Communism in Southeast Asia while pursuing a "Great Society" at home. It argues that the US government and the president engaged in a major pattern of deception regarding the US military action in Vietnam.

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