Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensive analysis of the course of Reconstruction during the 1870s, a decade that provided the true test for the political programs of the Republicans. This award-winning study interweaves events in the South with the political developments in the North that eventually brought about the withdrawal of support from the program.
Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensive analysis of the course of Reconstruction during the 1870s, a decade that provided the true ...
This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities,...
This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in pa...
Incriminating letters written by a young European prince to the English girl he betrayed are in the hands of the dead girl's sister. She is in the clutches of a nefarious man. All this and Moriarty and Dr. Watson too.
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Drama / Characters: 17 Male, 3 Female
Scenery: 5 interior Spaces
Incriminating letters written by a young European prince to the English girl he...
Reproductions of the classic Sherlock Holmes stage plays, The Speckled Band and Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. These plays offer a fascinating insight into an early and often forgotten chapter of the Sherlock Holmes legacy.
Reproductions of the classic Sherlock Holmes stage plays, The Speckled Band and Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillett...
William Gillette Juan Jose Abenza Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Antes de que llegaran Basil Rathbone, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing o Jeremy Brett, existio un actor estadounidense que personifico como nadie al mejor detective de todos los tiempos. William Gillette adapto la obra de teatro escrita por el propio Conan Doyle e interpreto al personaje de Sherlock Holmes por todo el mundo en mas de 1300 ocasiones, sentando las bases para todos los actores que vendrian detras. Esta edicion contiene tanto la obra teatral de William Gillette, 'Sherlock Holmes: Un Drama en Cuatro Actos', como la pequena parodia escrita tambien por el, 'El Penoso Desafio de...
Antes de que llegaran Basil Rathbone, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Cushing o Jeremy Brett, existio un actor estadounidense que personifico como nadie a...
