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Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
Ken Hughes · University of Virginia Press
Format: Book
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The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president... |
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Tara Zahra · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"With a combination of deft historical analysis, sparkling prose, and careful attention to individual stories, both poignant and instructive, The Great Departure is brimming with important and suggestive lessons from the past for thinking about the worldwide dynamics of emigrants and refugees... |
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Geyser Basins of Yellowstone
N Genean Dunn · Arcadia Pub
Pages: 127
Format: Book
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Yellowstone National Park contains over half the world's active geysers, with more than 700 within its 3,472 square miles. The most famous geyser is Old Faithful, named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition. In 1871, the US Geological and Geographical Survey, led by Dr. F.V.... |
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California comeback : how "failed state" became a model for the nation
Narda Zacchino · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at California's remarkable 21st century turnaround, focusing on the role played by the state government under Jerry Brown. In the most economically important state in the country and the 7th largest economy in the world a political revolution of historic importance... |
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Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition Reissued Edition
Horst W Janson · Pearson
Pages: 1184
Format: Hardcover
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NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyArtsLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyArtsLab, search 013412720X / 9780134127200 Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, Reissued Eighth Edition, Combined... |
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A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
J Michael Martinez · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 436
Format: Print book
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For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity - slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility - to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political... |
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha · Yale University Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical... |
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose · Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Turn Washingtons Spies Now a new original series on AMC Â Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into... |
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
Charles B Dew · University of Virginia Press
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates... |
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
Aude Grouard de Tocqueville · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 142
Format: Print book
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Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacán, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places,... |
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America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil
Christopher Kelly · History Invasions Press
Pages: 427
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why some towns in Texas have French names? Or why there's a statue of a Shawnee chief at the US Naval Academy? Or what coastal wildlife refuges have to do with American fears of invasion? And what the Olive Oil Riot in Montana was really all about? America Invaded... |
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
David Graeber · Spiegel & Grau; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy... |
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