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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Alan Dawley - Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn With a New Preface
Release Date: September 01, 2000
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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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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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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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James Sterling Young - The Washington Community, 1800-1828
Release Date: February 01, 1986
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Michael S. Sherry - The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon
This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War ii, the ideas, techniques, personalities, ad organizations that guided air attacks during the ear and the devastating effects of American a ... More
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