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  2. History of the Jews in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Daughters of Israel, daughters of the south: southern Jewish women and identity in the antebellum and Civil War South. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-61811-207-1. OCLC 849946355. Weissbach, Lee Shai (2005). Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10671-8. JSTOR j.ctt1npdcf. OCLC 123125257.

  3. Gerald Horne - Wikipedia

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    University of California, Berkeley (J.D.) Subject. Social & cultural analysis of race and class; class and race history. Gerald Horne (born January 3, 1949) is an American historian who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. [1]

  4. William C. Davis (historian) - Wikipedia

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    civilwar.vt.edu. William Charles " Jack " Davis (born 1946) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. Specializing in the American Civil War, Davis has written more than 40 books on that subject and other aspects of early ...

  5. The Peacemakers - Wikipedia

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    White House, Washington D.C. The Peacemakers is an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy. It depicts the historic March 27, 1865, strategy session by the Union high command on the steamer River Queen during the final days of the American Civil War. [1] Although he painted it in at least two versions, the largest was destroyed by fire in 1893, and ...

  6. History of Houston - Wikipedia

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    History of Texas. The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and ...

  7. Sam Houston - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Houston (/ ˈhjuːstən / ⓘ, HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate.

  8. John Stauffer (professor) - Wikipedia

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    Stauffer received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1999, began teaching at Harvard University that year, and was tenured in 2004. [2] He was the Chair of History and Literature and Professor of English and African and African American Studies in 2013, Chair of the History of American Civilization and Professor of English and African and African American Studies from 2006 ...

  9. Historiographic issues about the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with Eric Foner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal of American Studies (2011) 30#2 pp. 1–32 in JSTOR; Ford, Lacy, ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory."