| Title | : | Strangers in the Land |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0813531233 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 |
This book examines how American nativism evolved its own distinctive patterns. More...
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| Title | : | Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1421407299 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 |
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny Appleseed Chapman s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of John More...
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| Title | : | The Cultural Life of the American Colonies |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0486422232 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history 1607 1763 offers authoritative, perceptive views by a brilliant scholar on agrarian society and leadership, non English influences, religion, education, literature, drama, music, architecture, science, and much A significant contribution to early American history American History Review. 33 black and white illus Sweeping survey of 150 years of colonial history More...
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| Title | : | The Fifties |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0449909336 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 816 |
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten More...
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| Title | : | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0099526409 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 487 |
The American West, 1860 1890 years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward Woven into an engrossing saga of cruelty, treachery and The American West, 1860 1890 years of broken pr More...
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| Title | : | Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0698114396 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 |
Patrick Henry wasn t particularly well spoken As a lawyer, he mumbled through some of his early cases But when the issue was freedom, Patrick Henry was transformed into a natural orator Jean Fritz makes history come alive as she chronicles the life of a man who moved a nation. More...
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| Title | : | America at 1750 |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0394717953 |
| Format | : | paper |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism. More...
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| Title | : | Writing Early American History |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0812238834 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : |
Whoever reads these essays and whether they follow the book from cover to cover, or dip into chapters at random will find the rich abundance and variety of early American scholarship set out before them Readers new to the field will grasp a sense of its expansiveness and possibilities, but seasoned scholars, too, will find here a feast of insights and possibilities that Whoever reads these essays and whether they follow the book from cover to cover, or dip More...
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| Title | : | Orphans Preferred |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0767906934 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
WANTED YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS NOT OVER 18 MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY ORPHANS PREFERRED California newspaper help wanted ad, 1860 The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the all American traits of bravery, bravado, and entrepreneurial risk that are part of the v WANTED YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS NOT OVER 18 MUST B More...
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| Title | : | Inside the White House |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1558598189 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 |
Celebrating the White House on its two hundredth anniversary, this special volume invites you to visit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and to meet the people who live and work there You will be entertained with amusing anecdotes about the residents, peek at rarely seen views of family life, and observe behind the scenes plans for gala weddings and milestone events From the foca Celebrating the White House on its two hundred More...
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| Title | : | The Civil War, Vol. 1 |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0394746236 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 856 |
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience profound and meaningful than any other the American people have ever lived through And perhaps never before have these conflicts been so clearly, so dramatically and so excitingly presented The word nar Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of t More...
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| Title | : | Confederates in the Attic |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 067975833X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 406 |
National BestsellerWhen prize winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he s put war zones behind him But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own hea National Bestseller When prize winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the batt More...
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| Title | : | After the Revolution |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0393322335 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 |
Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context. More...
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| Title | : | Lincoln on Race & Slavery |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0691142343 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 |
Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln s views on race and slavery He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used the n word until at least 1862, and favored permanent racial segregation I Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln s views on race a More...
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| Title | : | The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0679736883 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 447 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize winning historian depicts much than a break with England He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. More...
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| Title | : | The Course of Empire |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0395924987 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 |
Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto s monumental trilogy of the West Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leadin Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a c More...
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| Title | : | The Circus Fire |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0385496850 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 |
The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.Halfway through a midsummer afternoon performance, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus s big top caught fire The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline in seconds it The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear More...
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