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The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers. The future of our republic may depend on it. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding writers' biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.

Until relatively recently, conventional wisdom held that the Trans-Mississippi Theater was a backwater of the American Civil War. Scholarship in recent decades has corrected this oversight, and a growing number of historians agree that the events west of the Mississippi River proved integral to the outcome of the war. Nevertheless, generals in the Trans-Mississippi have received little attention compared to their eastern counterparts, and many remain mere footnotes to Civil War history. This welcome volume features cutting-edge analyses of eight Southern generals in this most neglect

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Prologue; Chapter One A Little Gem; Chapter Two We Will Attack Them; Chapter Three Press On; Chapter Four They Never Run Too Fast; Chapter Five My Arm is Broken; Chapter Six Don't Trouble Yourself About Me; Chapter Seven I Thought You Were Killed; Chapter Eight An Old Familiar Face; Chapter Nine The Shade of the Trees; Chapter Ten Epilogue; Appendix I Controversies Surrounding the Event; Appendix II Building the Stonewall Image; Appendix III An Interview with Author Mathew Lively; Bibliography; Index.

The biography of the infantry General Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev is an example of how the army in the last period of the existence of imperial Russia played the role of the social lift. The chief of staff of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command in the First World War and one of the leaders of the White Movement, Alekseyev was the grandson of a serf peasant and the son of a cantonist, who received the rank of an officer during the Crimean War defending Sebastopol. He started his way to adjutant general of the last emperor from very modest positions, whose restoration makes it possible to present a real picture of life in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s.

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The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence of antebellum Kansas Territory, Civil War commands in the Trans-Mississippi, and as a cavalry officer in the Indian Wars, Williams was involved in key moments of American history. Like many who make a difference, Williams was a leader of strong convictions, sometimes impatient with heavy-han

Campaign biographies of the candidates for president and vice-president on the Democratic ticket. ; Biography of W.O. Butler is an expanded version of a sketch by Frances P. Blair. ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44