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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993581564Author Wendy MewesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Red Dog BooksPublisher Red Dog Books

Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." -True West"This rollicking...

Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported...

Bella Abzug's promotion of women's and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats' "New...

The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays-on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation-that "will fill you with joy and give you hope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742689Author Lee WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578656359Author Frank E KuronFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Kuron PublishingPublisher Kuron PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne's troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne's defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because...

Incorporating the work of Ernst Titovets, this book explores the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, painting him as a real person-not as the straw man concocted to match the image of a lone assassin in search of greatness or infamy. Among other facets of his...

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States-laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, and...

The forgotten but essential story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House in our nation's most divided and war-torn era. Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425570Author Joanne S LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the 'American' and 'international' aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876534Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

The presidio was as essential an element of Spanish civilization in the Mexican North and the American Southwest as the communities it was established to protect-missions, settlements, mines, and ranches. A fortified outpost in hostile Indian country, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182204Author Garrett M GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies-worth something...or perhaps nothing. IOUs from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226914Author Karen DybisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

The Journey of Life is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and significance of later life. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern middle-class culture, first in Europe and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089226Author Charles LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 454g

A companion volume to Autumn of Glory.Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these armies defended the ""heartland"" of the Confederacy- a vital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416594833Author Judy PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

This book achieves several things. It provides a point-by-point refutation of Vincent Buglioi's book Reclaiming History; it demonstrates, once and for all, that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of the crimes of which he was accused; it provides the most...

Published at a time when the US government's public diplomacy has been in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created, in 1953, to 'tell America's story to the world' and,...

The spellbinding account of the most complex and captivating manhunt in American history. "A true-crime masterpiece." -- Booklist (starred review)On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of...

'We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground'. In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state...

The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. For nearly fifty years the RCA name was synonymous with innovation in the industries it helped to build - radio and...

As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial...

Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of...

To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits...

This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF...

When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, "It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush." Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment,...

Robert May offers an imaginative new approach to antebellum America's notorious ""filibusters"" - the adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as...

December 1862 drove the United States towards a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary...

To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2007 and L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2007 and Lionel Gelber Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for...

During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had...

The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en...

Coster Avenue, the smallest portion of the Gettysburg National Military Park, marks the site of some of the last fighting on July 1, 1863, the First Day of the great battle. There, in what was then a brickyard, Col. Charles Coster's Union brigade made a...

In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis...