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Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
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Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures,...
Izzy: A Biography of I. E. Stone
America's foremost left-wing journalist of the post-World War I era was I.F. "Izzy" Stone. At the time of his death in 1989, Stone had completed the passage he once predicted...
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas
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Bull Run - Ball's Bluff - Chickamauga - Antietam - Secessionville - Champion's Hill. To the Northern public during the Civil War, they were exotic names of unfamiliar places where...
The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America: From The Salem Witch Trials to Harry...
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of
This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound...
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean
How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the
The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and...
The Cambridge History of America and the World
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820
The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and...
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events...
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality,
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which...
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody...
Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes...
Big Burn, The
A New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year. A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history...
That's Not in My American History Book: A Compilation of Little-Known
History classes reduce America's story into a dry litany of dates, names, and places. That's Not in My American History Book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets...
A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to
This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players,...
A Nation Rising
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"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent--and memorable." -- San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About...
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of...
Jeffersonian Legacies
On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson's 250th birthday, a number of today's leading historicans take a fresh look at our third president, architect of democracy for his time and still...
Darien Disaster
One of the most important events in Scotland's history, which contributed directly to the 1707 Act of Union with England. The word Darien is a scar on the memory of...
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The story of Fray Servando's life in exile recounst the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a...
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire
Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He examines the budget,...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
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In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...
Alistair Cooke's America
First published in 1973, this follow-up to Alistair Cooke's acclaimed 1972 television documentary series America: A Personal History of the United States has sold almost two million copies. From the...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life
A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that...
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly
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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van...
On the Trail of Lewis and Clark: Yesterday and Today
Follow in the footsteps of the famed explorers, from Washington DC to Washington state It has been 200 years since their epic trek across Western America, yet Lewis and Clark...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American
This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Monica's Untold Story: An Amorality Tale
"For Vanity Fair, I'll pose like Monroe the beauty who fell so far and so low As for me, I can handle the fame and the glamour Make the damn...
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....
Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York
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Going Rogue: An American Life
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A Stumbling Block: Bartolome de Las Casas as Defender of the Indians
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Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia
The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded...
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of
When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...
The Other Irish: The Scots-Irish Rascals Who Made America
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The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
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