In spare verse, Lowry reflects on moments in her childhood, including the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. (glossary, author’s note, bibliography, maps, archival photographs, illustration and photo credits) (Nonfiction. Useful for young readers beginning research on Civil War topics. Browsing through this guide may well lead young readers to studying topics more fully, which is the author’s hope. The entries are competently written and interesting. The Gettysburg Address and excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation, letters, and speeches are also provided. Not just an encyclopedia of battles, generals, and politicians, the guide includes people as various as Louisa May Alcott, Mary Chesnut, Dorothea Dix, Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass, and objects such as lucifers, minié balls, and Civil War tokens. The format invites flipping through the pages, studying maps, reading captions, and reading the entries. The 130 topics, from Abolitionists to Zouaves, include Lincoln and his mission of keeping the country united, the political ferment represented by the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the soldiers, generals, prisons, and literature of the time. Readers can open up anywhere and find interesting bits of information on many of the major people, places, and events of the Civil War.
From Marvel.This alphabetically arranged reference work on the Civil War is a handy guide. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch), Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye), Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man), Emily VanCamp (Sharon Carter/Agent 13), Don Cheadle (James Rhodes/War Machine). Stars Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Robert Downey Jr. Released on May 6, 2016, after an April 27 release in France and other countries. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps-one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark’s surprising decision to support governmental oversight and accountability.
But after an incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. Captain America: Civil War (film) Steve Rogers leads a newly formed team of Avengers in their efforts to safeguard humanity.
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