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Yankee Dutchmen under Fire

Joseph R. Reinhart | Filed under: Civil War, Civil War in the North
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Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a fascinating collection of sixty-one letters written by immigrants who served in the…

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Greek-American Relations from Monroe to Truman

Angelo Repousis | Filed under: Diplomatic Studies, New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations
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Repousis chronicles American public attitudes and government policies toward modern Greece from its war for independence (1821–1829) to the Truman Doctrine (1947) when Washington intervened to keep Greece from coming under communist domination.

 


Here Both Sweeter

Daniel Carter | Filed under: New Releases, Poetry, Wick Chapbook
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Daniel Carter’s Here Both Sweeter is a book in which you “have a seedling in each pocket,” a “body bodies,” and words are something you “carve out” so as to make a home. The poems are stories, are seeds, are secret messages cast and sent…

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Poppy Seeds

Allison Davis | Filed under: New Releases, Poetry, Wick Chapbook
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Spanning oceans and continents, language and the imagination, the unfathomable distances between people and their desires, Allison Davis’s Poppy Seeds creates an “immaculate atlas.” Here language is “broken. . . against the margin of the sea,” and a word is a thing that can be…

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Wet

Carolyn Creedon | Filed under: New Releases, Wick Firstbook
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“I’m moved by the way that Carolyn Creedon’s work treats experience as sacred. She won’t look away from difficult truths. She writes frankly about her own frustrations, longings, and heartbreaks, but she also recognizes the suffering of others—their secret grievances and griefs. The daily working…

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Denmark Vesey’s Revolt

John Lofton, and Peter C. Hoffer | Filed under: American Abolitionism and Antislavery, History
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In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. In Denmark Vesey’s Revolt, John Lofton draws upon primary sources to examine the trial and provide, as Peter Hoffer says in his new introduction,…

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Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden

Louise P. Woodroofe | Filed under: Diplomatic Studies, New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations
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When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of the Ogaden.” How did superpower détente survive Vietnam but stumble…

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