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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such...

Weaving together the stories of activists, American Jewish leaders, and Israeli officials in the wake of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Covenant Brothers portrays the dramatic rise of evangelical Christian Zionism as it gained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806315782Author Virginia L. H. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy, for it turned the page from the patient defence displayed by General Joseph E. Johnston to the bold offense called upon by his replacement, General John Bell Hood. Until...

This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we knew it. Lockdowns, self-isolation and quarantine have become a normal part of everyday life. Pandemic surveillance allows governments and corporations to monitor and surveil the spread of the virus and to...

This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War's critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809044399Author Langbourne M Williams Michael F HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979803918Author Glenn Alan CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint New London LibrariumPublisher New London LibrariumWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145619Author Francine PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

The United States was not founded as a Christian nation, since slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. The Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists, berated the Founding Fathers and challenged generations of Americans with this...

Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished local governance in the 1870s, they set the precedent for...

Written by Hamilton himself to confess to the affair he conducted with Maria Reynolds, Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology is Hamilton’s attempt to defend and rationalize his misdoings, and ultimately salvage what was left of his reputation.The...

The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under...

When we want advice, we often casually speak of reaching out to others to "get some feedback." But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase actually means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345935Author Mabel Dodge LuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Professor Arthur S. Link, Director and Editor of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, brings his considerable expertise and understanding of Wilson the man and the diplomat to this reexamination of Wilson's handling of foreign affairs. Link explores the ideas,...

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation...

Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country." This narrative history of Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256434Author Jerome CharynFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535570Author Norman MailerFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141574Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467119757Author William R., IV GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069405Author F C McGlashanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 408g

With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476760384Author Marc AmbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The heroes at the Pentagon were extraordinary civilians and soldiers who made decisions to sacrifice their own safety to render aid to complete strangers. Twenty years later, these stories serve as a reminder of what it truly means to be American...

Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain social-democratic vision of politics has been banished from...

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the...

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Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in...

"Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the...

This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815729082Author Daniel JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Lawrence Levine is a major American historian, President-Elect of the Organization of American Historians, and author of one of the most significant books in both black history and cultural history, Black Culture and Black Consciousness (OUP/USA 1977)...

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost on its rocky shores. Taryn Plumb explores the tragic history of shipwrecks in Maine, focusing on a dozen...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor...

Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that...

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537105Author Myrriah GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 363g