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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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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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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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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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Donald Worster - Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s
Release Date: September 30, 2004
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William W. Freehling - Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina 1816-1836
Historian William Freehling won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in History for this analysis of the Nullification Crisis which was a key event in the pre-history of the Civil War. Freehling deflty shows how the inter-related issues of slavery, states' rights, and economic interests boiled over when, ... More
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Anthony F. C. Wallace - Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
Release Date: June 01, 2005
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Stephan Thernstrom - The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970
Release Date: June 01, 1999
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Alfred Dupont Chandler - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism is delineated for the first time in this pathmarking book.
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Neil R. McMillen - Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
This is a history of Mississippi's black people, its majority people, and their struggles to achieve autonomy and full citizenship during the critical period of disfranchisement, segregation, and exclusion following 1890.
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Ernest Samuels - Henry Adams
Traces the life of the American historian, novelist, and journalist, and discusses his approach to history.
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Peter Kolchin - Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
Release Date: March 01, 1990
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Winthrop D. Jordan - Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were h ... More
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Roger Lane - Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900
Release Date: March 01, 1989
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