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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 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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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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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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Alan Dawley - Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn With a New Preface
Release Date: September 01, 2000
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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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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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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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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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Thomas M.A. Doerflinger - A Vigorous Spirit Of Enterprise: Merchants And Economic Development In Revolutionary Philadelphia
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, ... More
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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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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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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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Thomas L. Dublin - Women at Work
Release Date: May 01, 1981
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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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Paul Starr - Social Transformation of American Medicine
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries.
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Joseph Frazier Wall - Andrew Carnegie
A well-knit biography of an enigmatic man which does full justice to a character that was both shrewd and naive, idealistic and grasping, and charming and yet blind to the nature of other persons' psyche.
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Ronald Steel - Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Release Date: November 01, 1999
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Winthrop D. Jordan - White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation.
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Roberta Wohlstetter - Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
It would be reassuring to believe that Pearl Harbor was just a colossal and extraordinary blunder. What is disquieting is that it was a supremely ordinary blunder. In fact, 'blunder' is too specific; our stupendous unreadiness at Pearl Harbor was neither a Sunday-morning, nor a Hawaiian, phenomenon. ... More
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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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Norman Gordon Levin - Woodrow Wilson and World Politics; America's Response to War and Revolution
Release Date: February 15, 1970
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Christine Leigh Heyrman - Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
In Southern Cross Christine Leigh Heyrman reveals the surprising paradox at the heart of America's "Bible Belt": how such currently conservative religions groups as the Southern Baptists and Methodists evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with totally different social and political ... More
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Peter Kolchin - Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
Release Date: March 01, 1990
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Roger Lane - Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900
Release Date: March 01, 1989
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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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Felix Gilbert - To the Farewell Address Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy
Release Date: July 01, 1970
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