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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788402043Author Clarence Brent AllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250247155Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

In this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British. She follows the American Whigs as they...

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God -...

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of...

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually...

E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the...

Selling Hate is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda. Dale W. Laackman's uncovered never-before-published archival material, census records, and obscure books and letters to tell the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416586067Author Nora TitoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308896Author Michael PunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *...

"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, and the poorest but fastest-growing American group, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing...

The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of the country's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon...

From the author of Queen Sugar-now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay-comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems,...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, a much more rare occurence than the lynching of men. Over the same...

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more...

Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a...

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution,...

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784946Author Michelle MalkinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 30mm

High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings...

White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. The form of segregation and subjection nicknamed Jim Crow constantly had to remake itself over time even as white southern politicians...

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead...

Lawman or outlaw? Black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West walk the streets of our imagination. Hollywood draws a convenient line in the Western dirt, differentiating between the two. But in reality, at times it was difficult,...

On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307454300Author Gary KristFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467139441Author Janice OberdingFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523085941Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Award-Winner in the "Multicultural Non-Fiction" category of the 2017 International Book AwardsSilver Award winner for True Crime for the Independent Publisher Book Awards2022 William Randolph Hearst Awardee for Outstanding Service in Professional...

A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage...

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institute's erotic art; gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library; the private archive of an amateur...

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143327Author Alistair CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060826574Author David S ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410455765Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 691Imprint Thorndike PressPublisher Thorndike PressWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm *...

The term "Judeo-Christian" is remarkably easy to pass over without consideration. It seems obvious that Judaism and Christianity share texts, tenets, and values--and that these influenced the founders of the United States. However, in this ambitious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486450391Author Ian Frederick FinsethFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Traversing a century of climbing that begins with Victorian enthusiasts and ends with the conquerors of the Himalayan peaks, Mountain Men tells the stories of the extraordinary men who were the first to climb the world's best-known mountains: the...

By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike. As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives lost proved to be a persistent obstacle to the hard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307463982Author Andrew CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...