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Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins. Indeed, until now, nobody has written a comprehensive history of the Constitution's making. Based on prodigious research and told largely through participants' voices,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557090737Author Abraham LincolnFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 106mm...

There's the office: President of the United States. And then there's the man in the office-prone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nation's leaders, humor...

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition...

In 1916 a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbour. The brazen attack destroyed the harbour and the ammunition housed there - and the subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425190128Author Robert M. UtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

From One of the Greatest Leaders in American History, a Collection of the Words and Writings that Inspired a Generation of Americans to Become the Greatest Generation In just under three decades of public life, Franklin Delano Roosevelt rose to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813949086Author Adrian BrettleFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633470Author Hampton NewsomeFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill,...

On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any woman who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subject to prosecution as a prostitute. Not all nineteenth-century women, Butler learned, felt their place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471327165Author John BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970816Author David RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 755Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1220g

The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his...

This book uses travel as a lens to observe the Creek world turning into the Old South. In ""Creek Paths and Federal Roads"", Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between...

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical, continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers...

A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-seven scholars, all specialists in their own thematic areas, examine the key...

Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman AwardA critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has told the story of Shiloh as Timothy...

All of middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863.On the previous day, December 31 - the last day of 1862 - just outside Murfreesboro along Stones River, the Confederate Army of Tennessee had launched a morning attack that nearly...

At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved together and shaped each other at different...

Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 brings together original sources and recent scholarship to trace the origins and development of African slavery in the American colonies. Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the...

Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature AwardA Bloomberg View Must-Read Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"A substance-rich, original on every page exploration of how the space program interacted with the...

Abortion is the most divisive issue in America's culture wars, seemingly creating a clear division between conservative members of the Religious Right and people who align themselves with socially and politically liberal causes. In Defenders of the...

In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531889Author Meriwether LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 203g

Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a...

In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried. Many who would recall the journey later would agree...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743299626Author Ronald C WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The title of Peter Carroll's book, ""It Seemed Like Nothing Happened"", ironically reveals the message. The decade of the '70s was far from our common impression of the calm following the turbulent '60s. In this unique, comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916425Author William HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history-Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream-Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II...

One of the largest and perhaps the most well-known battle of the American Civil War occurred in July of 1863 in the modest town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The location and beauty of the many monuments and memorials on the battlefield today, preserve...

The dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long lives to making a safer, more caring world. Jimmy and...

Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a...

Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the...

The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866--during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)--a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and...

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. Despite being taught in universities around the world, American Studies has resisted developing a coherent methodology for...

America's most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of "Devil Anse" Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a Hatfield cousin of stealing one of his hogs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137025Author Ken EllingwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

"All that I do is go out and look at films and choose the ones I want to play-films that stimulate, and give some insight into our lives. I hope that people will come, but if they don't, that's okay too."Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West...