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Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor · Johns Hopkins University Press |
America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control... |
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse · Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansAmericans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."... |
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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
Chris Jennings · Random House Pages: 488 Format: Print book |
For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism - and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements.... |
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Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England
Michael K. Jones · Pegasus Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover |
A lively and authoritative reinterpretation of the Battle of Bosworth Field, where the Wars of the Roses ended and the Tudor dynasty began. On August 22, 1485, at Bosworth Field, Richard III fell, the Wars of the Roses ended, and the Tudor dynasty began. The clash is so significant because... |
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American Umpire
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman · Harvard University Press Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover |
Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman explores key turning points in history from George Washington to Barack Obama. She challenges the notion that... |
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit · Spiegel & Grau; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel,... |
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Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press Pages: 406 Format: eBook |
"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock · Counterpoint Format: Hardcover |
Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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