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Our 2002 edition of Letters from Mississippi has become a staple in studies of the civil rights movement. (The original publication of 1965 recorded the letters of the volunteers in the Mississippi Summer Voting Project of 1964 -- "Freedom Summer" -- and...

This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult...

John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year's mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. "As a candidate," Joseph Alsop conceded, "Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his...

"Like taking a tour of the White House with a gifted storyteller at your side!" 1.Why, in the minutes before John F. Kennedy was murdered, was a blood-red carpet installed in the Oval Office? 2.If Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom,...

The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the...

The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored...

In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497437Author Michael MedvedFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501126857Author Douglas WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis.In No...

The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or...

Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806161853Author Stanley D CarpenterFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

What caused the Civil War? Perhaps no question in American history has attracted more interest or sparked more debate. A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016669Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

"Thompson-Hernandez's portrayal of Compton's black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton's young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in the west. An eye-opening, moving book."-...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974272Author Caroline RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 789g

Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life-and lost-reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533750Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 620g

Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States...

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics...

The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780345447722Author Brian HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballantine Books Inc...

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193147Author Brian CluneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213241Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence, it was only...

In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the...

In this book first published in 1986, four historians consider the popularly held explanations for Southern defeat - state-rights disputes, inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union blockade - undergirding their discussion with a...

After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's...

Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition's findings quickly led Congress to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364077Author David HeadFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738547084Author Tommy DangcilFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467117548Author James A. BuccellatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being "found dead" or "committing suicide," and it seemed a little strange to you? You think, "There's something they're not telling me." Well, after you read Dead Wrong, you'll realize that your...

As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned. The South was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil reconstruction. The Union, though preserved, would not easily be healed...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...