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{"id":6557358522457,"title":"The Making of Delaware — Muhammad '73","handle":"the-making-of-delaware-muhammad-73","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his book, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Delaware: One Day at a Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Abdullah R. Muhammad provides a unique glimpse of Delaware history and the contributing role it has played in developing our nation. The author captures the historical essence of \"The First State\" in a way that should enlighten anyone who reads this important work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T15:30:55-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T15:26:48-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":2499,"price_min":2499,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2499,"compare_at_price_min":2499,"compare_at_price_max":2499,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299434119257,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA350-Muhammad","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Making of Delaware — Muhammad '73","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2499,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781587660917","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Making of Delaware by Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973","id":20330862772313,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his book, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Delaware: One Day at a Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Abdullah R. Muhammad provides a unique glimpse of Delaware history and the contributing role it has played in developing our nation. The author captures the historical essence of \"The First State\" in a way that should enlighten anyone who reads this important work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7248725016665,"title":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","handle":"the-tin-ticket-swiss-75","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424604270681,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"422-Swiss","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780425243077","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23807993020505,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":7248717938777,"title":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","handle":"the-womans-right-gould-37","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:39-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:40-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1495,"compare_at_price_min":1495,"compare_at_price_max":1495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424598339673,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA240-Gould","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780595342860","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of The Woman's Right: A story of my Maine grandmother 1848-1927 by Franklin F. Gould Jr.","id":23807951241305,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396440932441,"title":"Transatlantic Encounters — Greet '93","handle":"transatlantic-encounters-greet-93","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Michele Greet, Class of 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn unprecedented and comprehensive survey of Latin American artists in interwar Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and ’30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquín Torres-García). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This vibrant book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Author Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity. These artists, hailing from former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, encountered expectations of primitivism from their European audiences, and their diverse responses to such biased perceptions—ranging from rejection to embrace to selective reinterpretation of European tendencies—yielded a rich variety of formal innovation. 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These artists, hailing from former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, encountered expectations of primitivism from their European audiences, and their diverse responses to such biased perceptions—ranging from rejection to embrace to selective reinterpretation of European tendencies—yielded a rich variety of formal innovation. Magnificently illustrated and conveying with clarity a nuanced portrait of modernism, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTransatlantic Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e also engages in a wider discussion of the relationship between displacement, identity formation, and artistic production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":274057557,"title":"Unruly Women — Boyle","handle":"unruly-women-performance-penitence-and-punishment-in-early-modern-spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Margaret E. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/m\/mboyle2\/\"\u003eAssistant Professor of Romance Languages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.  Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women's deviance and rehabilitation, \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e argues that women's performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyle looks at real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess.  \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women \u003c\/em\u003eexplores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women's non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2014-03-26T15:57:00-04:00","created_at":"2014-03-26T16:05:48-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":5500,"price_min":5500,"price_max":5500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":5500,"compare_at_price_min":5500,"compare_at_price_max":5500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":643522465,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF227-Boyle","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Unruly Women — Boyle","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":5500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781442646155","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Unruly Women by Margaret Boyle","id":7518733500505,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Margaret E. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/m\/mboyle2\/\"\u003eAssistant Professor of Romance Languages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.  Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women's deviance and rehabilitation, \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e argues that women's performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyle looks at real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess.  \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women \u003c\/em\u003eexplores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women's non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":161299739,"title":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","handle":"we-are-in-his-hands-whether-we-live-or-die-the-letters-of-brevet-brigadier-general-charles-henry-howard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-09-30T15:47:26-04:00","created_at":"2013-09-30T16:18:40-04:00","vendor":"Algonquin Books","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War","History"],"price":5200,"price_min":5200,"price_max":5200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":369700961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC225-Howard","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781572339439","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard","id":7515939143769,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}