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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer...
Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War
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The Civil War the bloodiest, most dramatic moment in this nation's history also produced some of the country's greatest literature. Blood reflects the violent hatred, love, patriotism, and heroism this...
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I,
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The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This...
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
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For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as...
The Untold History of the United States
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The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look...
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest,...
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
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By the author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution , a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and final war of independence...
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New
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From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two...
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the
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Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby . Instant New York Times bestseller! A Winner of the...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to
Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American...
Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield and
The reports of officers Lt. Col. Joseph E. Johnston and Col. Joseph K. F. Mansfield on the combat readiness of troops in the Texas and New Mexico Departments of the...
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and...
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the
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In "The Archive and the Repertoire" performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to...
Virginia at War, 1864
The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major...
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, from the author of Franklin & Winston -- a brilliant history of God and politics in America, updated with a new afterword by...
Confederate Corsair: The Life of Lt Charles W 'Savez' Read
Lieutenant Charles W 'Savez' Read's life was one of swashbuckling adventure and dazzling escapes. Yet very little has been known about him until recently. Robert A. Jones has tracked down...
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
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Revised Edition With a New Preface and Afterword In a revised edition, brought completely up to date with a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliography, Bruce Levine's succinct...
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant...
American Slavery, 1619-1897
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A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War. Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the...
Samuel Adams: A Life
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The gripping story of the man who was the American Revolution's moral compass--Ira Stoll tells readers who Samuel Adams was, why he has been forgotten, and why he must be...
Tecumseh
' A heroic work of research and scholarship. . . The most complete and reliable account of the events that made the great Shawnee Indian a giant figure on the...
Florence Harding
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This book tells the story of Florence Hardin g''s rise to power. The daughter of an abusive father, mother at a young age to an illegitimate child, she saw her...
Great Fortune
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Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project...
Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
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In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve...
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the...
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War
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On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the...
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned...
A New Time for Mexico
Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations,...
The Epic of Latin America, Fourth edition
Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, The Epic of Latin America is once again revised and brought...
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
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It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve...
Raising the Hunley
The history of the Confederate submarine "H. L. Hunley" is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron "fish...
Fidel and Che: The Revolutionary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and
FIDEL AND CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the remarkable friendship between two iconic figures. Not yet thirty, Fidel Castro and Ernesto (Che) Guevara met in 1955 while...
Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the...
Mr Jefferson's Lost Cause
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing...
American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms (Large Print)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER Join Chris Kyle on a journedy to discover "how 10 firearms changed United States history" ( New York Times Book Review...
Alexander Hamilton: A Life
From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his old...
Sampan Sailor: A Navy Man's Adventures in WWII China
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The author's adventures display the bonds of friendship forged between the Chinese people and a small band of AMericans who risked their lives with them against the brutal Japanese invaders.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of
A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era THE NEW YORK TIMES...
A Promised Land
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo
The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait
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Author: Raymond B. FosdickBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and dull spine. Bumping...
The Complete Book Of U.S. Naval Power
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Author: Louis WeberBinding: HardbackPublished: Publications International, Limited, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tear to DJ, some slight foxing to page edges.The...
Into Mexico With General Scott
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Author: Edwin L. SabinBinding: HardbackPublished: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1920Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some stains on spine. Bumping...