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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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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 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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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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Walter Lafeber - The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an intern ... 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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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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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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Suzanne Lebsock - The Free Women of Petersburg
In a new book that has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Winner of the Bancroft Prize for 1985.
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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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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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David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Dubois: 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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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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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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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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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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Kenneth T. Jackson - Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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