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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gordon S. Wood - The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists.
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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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Donald Worster - Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s
Release Date: September 30, 2004
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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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Robert Dallek - Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945: With a New Afterword
Robert Dallek vigorously and convincingly defends Roosevelts's foreign policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals.
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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 Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car ... More
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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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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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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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Robert Middlekauff - The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728
In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers -- Richard, Increase, and Cotton Math ... 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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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 Sterling Young - The Washington Community, 1800-1828
Release Date: February 01, 1986
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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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John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat
This study of Japanese society shows how, after Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese reshaped their old traditions and incorporated new ideas from the West in a unique mix. They were thus well-positioned to participate in the emerging free-market opportunities.
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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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Henry Nash Smith - Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth
Examines the significance and impact of the nineteenth-century Westward movement on American literature. Bibliogs.
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Alexander George and Richard Smoke - Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice
Release Date: November 01, 1974
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