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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Thomas L. Dublin - Women at Work
Release Date: May 01, 1981
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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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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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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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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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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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David Nasaw - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is ?an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known? (New York ... More
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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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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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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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John P. Demos - Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Release Date: November 18, 2004
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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 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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Charles Capper - Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life The Private 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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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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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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Louis R. Harlan - Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
This book begins in 1901, when Booker T. Washington at the age of forty-five was approaching the zenith of his fame and influence, and ends with his death in 1915. It is a biographical study in the sense that its focus is on the complex, enigmatic figure of Washington, the most powerful black minori ... 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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Morton Horwitz - Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
Awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1978, Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 is considered one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. Since its publication in 1977, it has become the standard source on early nineteenth-cen ... 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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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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