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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a classic novel that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong and determined young woman who is forced to navigate the challenges of war, love, and loss. Throughout the novel, Scarlett's character undergoes significant growth and transformation as she learns to adapt...
2) Lincoln
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2013.
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A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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2019.
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"On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience - and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic...
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"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. Drew Faust offers a...
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[2017]
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A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence,...
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[2018]
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The North and the South had evolved in very different ways both economically and politically. In particular, the South s agricultural economy revolved around the institution of slavery. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the victory was seen by the South as the North s attempt to impose its anti-slavery measures on it. This ultimately led to secession when Southern states started to cut their ties with the Union. Each title in this...
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[2009], ©2009
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This documentary about the American Civil War features living history reenactments that take viewers to the battle line to see the action from the soldiers point of view, as well as addressing the political and personal factors that played a role in the war, through personal letters, official reports, and diaries.
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[2011]
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It's the spring of 1861 on the gulf coast of Texas. Although Amanda Belle never thought she would marry because of the promise she made to her dying mother, her attraction to Captain Kent Littlefield is undeniable. When Texas secedes from the Union, her brother Daniel marches off to fight for the Confederate States and Kent remains with the Union troops. Amanda turns to God expecting direction and support, but hears nothing. Is God listening?
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Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.