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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

Michael C. C. Adams · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude...
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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

Daria Roithmayr · BiblioBazaar
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover

This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little...
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

Kliph Nesteroff · Grove Press
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking...
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved

Catharine Arnold · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Edward Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie," was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London...
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Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them

John Richard Stephens · Lyons Press
Format: Print book

From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies....
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Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

Caitlin Fitz · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars

Terry Mort · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In a powerful evocation of the spirit and drama of the American West, the harrowing story of the feud that ignited the Apache Wars. In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols...
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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

James Oakes · W. W. Norton & Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover

A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous...
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Conspiracy Theory in America

Lance deHaven-Smith · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly...
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory

MICHAEL KORDA · Liveright
Pages: 525
Format: Hardcover

Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life...
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Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Clara Bingham · Random House
Pages: 611
Format: Print book

The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolutionAs the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts...
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A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age

Greg Jenner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock?Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals...
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We the people : the modern-day figures who have reshaped the founding fathers' vision of what... america is.

Juan Williams · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different...
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens...
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The Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

Charity Ann Vogel · Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroads eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely...
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