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Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives
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A Brief History of America
The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State [...]
Each federal employee takes an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic," but none had imagined that enemy might be...
War Stories (SIGNED)
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Author: David PhillipsBinding: Other bindingPublished: Gauley Mount Pr, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionWar Stories by David Phillips explores various personal and historical accounts of war, shedding...
Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians
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Author: John HemmingBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complex interactions between the Brazilian Indians and European colonizers from 1500...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
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Author: John TolandBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday Books, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsA revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
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Author: Julia Flynn SilerBinding: HardbackPublished: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLost Kingdom is a well-told history of the U.S. acquisition of Hawaii, deftly weaving together...
The Private Mary Chestnutt
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Author: Chesnut, Mary Boykin MillerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Private Mary Chestnutt is a compilation of the personal diaries...
Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi
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Author: Lawrence L. HewittBinding: HardbackPublished: Louisiana State University Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the Port Hudson campaign during the American...
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback: Santa Fe and Back
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Author: James F. MelineBinding: HardbackPublished: Horn and Wallace, 1966Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles a summer tour through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico...
Obama from Promise To Power
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General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men-along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-who historian Martin Blumenson called...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962
This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Lemay
LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast
When Columbus arrived on the shores of Hispaniola, a rich and complex civilisation already existed that forms the core of American cultural history. Exploring ancient southeastern Indian sites from the...
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a [...]
"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
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Author: Stephen Brumwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 514 Winner of the prestigious George Washington Book Prize, George Washington is a vivid recounting of the formative years and military career...
High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson
Author: Roger S. Durham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
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Author: Patrick Symmes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of "Chasing Che, " the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political...
Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
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Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Post Roads & Iron Horses
Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New...
Battle of the River Plate
At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from...
William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
Widely regarded as the most important narrative of 17th-century New England, William Bradford's "Of Plimmoth Plantation" is one of the founding documents of American literature and history. In this study,...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln is, by tradition, one of American history's quintessential westerners. But Lincoln owed much of his national political success, not to mention his enshrinement in public memory, to his...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
Cowboy Culture
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Author: David DaryBinding: HardbackPublished: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, Second PrintingCondition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerA colorful account of five centuries of cowboy culture details the...
Lee: The Last Years
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Author: Charles Bracelen FloodBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin , 1981Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book covers a range of topics including the military and general history...
Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse
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Author: Jorge I. DominguezBinding: HardbackPublished: Pantheon, 1993Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, a pivotal moment in...
Cuba: From Columbus to Castro (SIGNED)
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Author: Jaime SuchlickiBinding: HardbackPublished: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1986, Second EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Cuba's history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus...
Discovering the New World Based on the Works of Theodore De Bry
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Author: Theodore De Bry and Michael AlexanderBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1976Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOriginally published as French Adventures in Florida between 1590 and 1634, this...
The Black Joy Project
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
Beyond Vietnam
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York...
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
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The Empire of Necessity
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Talking Straight
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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
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