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Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. Post Office. Gluck saw an opportunity, and created the Santa Claus Association. The effort delighted the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401310110Author Laurence LeamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153171Author Paul KreingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277701Author Steven E. WoodworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm)...

The third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteenth century When the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired the status of a classic, and was widely acknowledged...

A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series.ReviewsA cogent narrative of the evolution of American foreign policy and how the policies...

Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512232Author Samuel W MitchamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 299g

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian...

Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding...

This monograph presents the first detailed exposition of the formal theory of Branching Space-Times. The theory presented here by Nuel Belnap, Thomas Muller, and Tomasz Placek describes how real possibilities can play out in our spatio-temporal world. In...

"Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there is bigly wit here, too."-The Washington Post In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable...

Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever...

How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom. In a raid on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595094295Author John Van Der ZeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm * 21mm

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a...

Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as 'experience'. Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and...

A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens-and the American imagination-to this day.Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a...

In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic...

How increased access to ice-decades before refrigeration-transformed American life.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the...

As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President's children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her findings as an insider within the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016051Author Carol SheriffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 19mm

Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's...

This New York Times bestselling "deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks-and deja vu" (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being elected to it, showing how...

Perfect for readers of all ages, U.S. History 101 is a fact-filled and riveting introduction to the most important political events and figures from the last 300 years of our nation's history.The stories of politicos and historic events are often turned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984225644Author John L. LaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint American History PressPublisher American History PressWeight(grams) 270g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213234Author Brian KilmeadeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up...

The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually...

"The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and Clark scholarship."-Robert M. Briwa, Historical GeographyIn May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and...

Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author...

What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and...

How do we move around the world with awareness? Thanks to the 5 senses, which allow us to experience reality! In this book, the psychotherapist Chiara Piroddi provides games and activities that allow the child to learn, independently, through guided...

In this collection, renowned artist Don Troiani teams up with leading artifact historian James L. Kochan to present the American Revolution as it has existed only in our imaginations: in living color. From Bunker Hill to Yorktown, from Washington to...

1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further...

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540228963Author Tom PolandFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988018778Author Dave O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Dave O'BrienPublisher Dave O'BrienWeight(grams) 558g