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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Mike Wallace · Oxford University Press
Pages: 1200
Format: Hardcover
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale,... |
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Michael A. Ross · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down:... |
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The Very Witching Time of Night: Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema
Gregory William Mank · McFarland; n edition
Format: Paperback
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The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection... |
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American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
Robert E. Gallamore · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulation and often displaced by barge traffic on government-maintained waterways, trucking on interstate highways, and jet aviation, railroads measured... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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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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U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare, Training and Education, 2000-2010
Nicholas J. Schlosser · Government Printing Office
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
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U.S. Marines in Irregular Warfare: Training and Education is a brief history that recounts how the U.S. Marine Corps adapted to fight the Global War on Terrorism during 2000-10. The Marine Corps has a long history of fighting irregular wars, including the Banana Wars in Central America... |
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Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
Michael Scott Doran · Free Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956 - one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East - shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt, is America's strongest regional ally.In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take... |
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Searching For Your Ancestors in Historic Newspapers
Claudia C. Breland · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Every genealogist needs this book, if theyre serious about researching their family history. Family stories of all kinds, not just obituaries, can be found in newspapers. While major metropolitan newspapers are being digitized and placed online, many more are available for viewing on microfilm.... |
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The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jürgen Matthäus · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 509
Format: Print book
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In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining... |
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