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The fossil fuel revolution is usually rendered as a tale of historic advances in energy production. In this perspective-changing account, Christopher F. Jones instead tells a story of advances in energy access-canals, pipelines, and wires that delivered...

William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom-benevolent, Quaker, pacifist-gradually...

An authoritative account of the long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the...

"Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637584248Author Douglas MacKinnonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces you to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the...

This international history uncovers an American security program in which Washington reached into fifteen Latin American countries to seize more than 4,000 German expatriates and intern them in the Texas desert. The crowd of Nazi Party members,...

The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476746470Author John AvlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345464880Author Jeff ShaaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 720gDimensions(mm)...

In the first book to explore the theory and practice of eugenics in the American South, Edward J. Larson shows how the quest for "strong bloodlines"expressed itself in state laws and public policies from the Progressive Era through World War II. Larson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935186694Author Gary L ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.Publisher Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945602177Author Eric J WittenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Fox Run Publishing, LLCPublisher Fox Run Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

On Mount Washington, it's lack of preparation, not the mountain, that kills. The weather is highly changeable with wind gusts of 140 mph and -35 degree temps. Then there are the avalanches and icefalls. Combine this with inexperienced hikers in t-shirts...

It's more important than ever for every American to know exactly what the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence actually says. Here is the essential, 45-page, pocket-size edition.Now a USA Today Bestseller! The greatest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578562704Author Tom JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 614Imprint Thomas W. JonesPublisher Thomas W. JonesWeight(grams) 966g

"This book," Bernard Bailyn writes, "depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment." It is at the same time a dramatic account of the origins of the American...

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White HouseThe Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on one of the nation's most divisive presidencies. Acclaimed...

The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections. It features essays by an all-star team of political scientists in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 general election, chronicling every...

Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"-who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic...

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing interest in America's folk heritage, as Americans began to enthusiastically collect, present, market, and consume the nation's folk traditions. Examining one of this century's most prominent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118978Author Thurston ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272g

Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jefferson Davis AwardA companion volume to Army of the Heartland Near the end of 1862 the Army of Tennessee began a long and frustrating struggle against overwhelming obstacles and ultimate defeat. Federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141765Author James FarfagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116653Author Adam CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352g

Barack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history. His articles, books, and speeches are replete with references to America's past and how that relates to the present he sees and the future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962506888Author Vincent MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Historical Society of Old YarmouthPublisher Historical Society of Old...

Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party...

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from...

In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government...

In his new book, Michael J. Hogan, a leading historian of the American presidency, offers a new perspective on John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as seen not from his life and times but from his afterlife in American memory. The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald...

Winner of the Jefferson Davis AwardWinner of the Johns Family Book AwardWinner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award"A work of deep intellectual seriousness, sweeping and yet also delicately measured, this book promises to resolve...

Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189047Author Joel Richard PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879998247Author John Rushdoony Rousas John RushdoonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ross House BooksPublisher Ross House BooksWeight(grams)...

Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar 19th century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. In...

Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper's Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some...

Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy's first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the...