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The North American Indians in early photographs
Paula Richardson Fleming · Harper & Row
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A photographic book providing a record of the Indians of North America between 1850 and the First World War as seen by early photographers. From the first pictures, prompted by a sense of curiosity, to the later images capturing the change in the Indian way of life, these photographs document... |
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Paris and the Countryside: Modern Life in Late-19th-Century France
Fronia W Simpson · Portland Museum of Art
Pages: 135
Format: Paperback
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It has long been observed that Impressionists and their followers heeded Charles Baudelaire's call to paint "modern life." "Paris and the Countryside" explores modernity, a cultural notion, with a parallel emphasis on the development of modernism, an art historical... |
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When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir
Glyn Haynie · Glyn E. Haynie
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who'd... |
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The Timeline of the Civil War
John D Wright · Thunder Bay Press
Pages: 224
Format: Book
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The American Civil War remains to this day, one of the bloodiest battles ever waged - three million fought and 600,000 died. In the beginning, it split apart the country; in the end, it united it. Now armchair soldiers can explore this endlessly fascinating era in the Timeline of the Civil... |
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The Danish Texans
John L Davis · Univ of Texas Inst of Texan
Pages: 166
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Barely a trace of wear and light rub to jacket and sticker shadow on front and rear panels. 166 pages with Index. Illustrated. |
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S. C. Gwynne · Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the prize-winning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a thrilling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky · Doubleday
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.
Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transitions
Heather Fowler-Salamini · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
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Too often in the history of Mexico, women have been portrayed as marginal figures rather than legitimate participants in social processes. As the twentieth century draws to a close, Mexican women of the countryside can be seen as true historical actors: mothers and heads of households,... |
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Mankind: The Story of All Of Us
Pamela D. Toler Ph.D. · Running Press; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind.In conjunction with History Channel’s hit television... |
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It Happened in Texas
James A. Crutchfield · TwoDot; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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In It Happened in Texas author James A Crutchfield illuminates thirty-three lively episodes from the history of the Lone Star State Youll kick up dust and jangle your spurs as you travel with the first explorers chase outlaws with the Texas Rangers and take aim with sharpshooter Billy Dixon |
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American Heroes in Special Operations
Chuck Holton · Fidelis; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (a New York Times best seller), Oliver North moves from the frontline to the world of shadow warriors, introducing readers to the brave, noble work of Navy Seals, Rangers, and Green Berets in American Heroes in Special... |
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Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit
Garry Wills · Doubleday
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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"The truth, we are told, will make us free. It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin. Paler, subtler, less dramatic than the sins castigated by Orcagna or Dante, these are the quiet sins of intellectual... |
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