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Mary P. Ryan - Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female ro ... More
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Thomas L. Dublin - Women at Work
Release Date: May 01, 1981
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography begins with the end of World War I and chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, the little-known political agenda behind it, Du Bois's battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
On the basis of a diary, Ulrich gives the reader an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard and her society--a portrait that sheds light on its medical practices, religious squabbles and sexual mores. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Bernard Augustine De Voto - Across the Wide Missouri
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. De Voto weaves a compelling story of the Rocky mountain fur trade during the 1830s, vividly showing how this frontier enterprise shaped the American West. (A Mariner Reissue)
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Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu ... More
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Stanley Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick - The Age of Federalism
Written by two esteemed historians, this work gives readers a reflective, deeply formed analytical survey of this extraordinary period in American history. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns--political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military--the authors provides a sweeping historical ... More
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Robert A. Gross - The Minutemen and Their World
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts....In THE MINUTEMEN AND THEIR WORLD, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and offers a compelling interpretation ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Jill Lepore - The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Skillfully interpreting reactions to the war on both sides, the historian author reveals the crucial role the conflict played in shaping the adversaries' ideas of themselves and to each other. 34 illustrations, 2 maps.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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David S. Reynolds - Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
This comprehensive, original portrait of the life and work of one of America's greatest poets--set in the social, cultural, and political context of his time--considers the full range of writings by and about Whitman, including his early poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newsp ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Clinton Lawrence Rossiter - The First American Revolution: The American Colonies on the Eve of Independence
Analysis of the social, economic, intellectual, and political environment of the American Colonies before the Revolution and how these factors contributed to creating the break with England.
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John Dittmer - Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's challenge to the state's segregationist delegation. ... More
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David Nasaw - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly released private and business papers and interviews. For the first time, documentation of Hearst's interactions with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, and every American president from Grover Cleveland to Frankl ... More
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Linda Gordon - The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this 'interracial' transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. Th ... More
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Charles Royster - The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
From the moment the Civil War began, says the author in this fearfully vivid book, partisans on both sides were calling not just for conquest but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige--in the persons of Sherman for the North and Jackson for the South. Winner of the Bancrof ... More
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Alan Taylor - William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN is the story of a father and son who embodied many of the contradictions that divided the United States during the early years of the Republic. William Cooper founded Cooperstown, New York, and his son, James Fenimore Cooper, became a successful novelist. Their story shows how ... More
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William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity, and intelligence than Cronon. Indeed, no one has ever written a better book about a city".--Bosto ... More
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Susan Lee Johnson - Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
With the alchemy of great history, Susan Johnson transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into one that is sparkling and new. You know about the Gold Rush: out West, sometime around '49, unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold. Stories like Bret Harte's "The Luc ... More
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Ira Berlin - Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
A major historical study of two centuries of African-American experience in America during slavery. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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James T. Patterson - Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
A highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate, "Grand Expectations" offers a brilliant summation of the years which created the America we know today. 48 illustrations. 4 ... More
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John L. Brooke - The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The 'Refiner's Fire' presents a new and comprehensive understanding of the roots of the Mormon religion, a religion which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion and magical ideas about recovering the divine powers of ... More
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Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman - Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery.
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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
Chronicling the long career of a prime mover in America's nascent civil rights movement, a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning biography shows the major impact this great and controversial thinker had on America.
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Charles Capper - Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life The Public Years
Transcendentalist, Romantic, feminist- Margaret Fuller was nothing less than the first woman in America to establish herself as a dominant figure in highbrow culture at large. If there was one man or woman whose connections among gender, intellectual culture, and the avant-garde, it was Margaret Ful ... More
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Lizabeth Cohen - Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 Books
'Based upon prodigious research, this book carefully assesses the diversity of workers' social experience, examining African-American and Mexican workers as well as eastern and southern Europeans. At every step the argument is developed in a sophisticated way...Making a New Deal constitutes a major ... More
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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George Dangerfield - The Era of Good Feelings
This is a prize-winning history of the years between the terms of Presidents Jefferson and Jackson.
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Melvyn P. Leffler - A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps.
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David E. Kyvig - Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995
Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required two-thirds approval from houses of Congress, and only 27 were ultimately ratified into law by the states. ... More
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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black a ... More
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Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Release Date: July 01, 1986
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