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The latest book by preeminent Civil War artist and historian Don Troiani features 34 major paintings of the Gettysburg campaign and an introductory history of the battle by Civil War expert Tom Huntington. Each beautifully detailed and historically...

"You have to take the children away."-Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596296732Author Tom WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

"An eye opening reappraisal of what really happened during the Alamo siege, final assault and aftermath. . . . Tucker's well researched account dramatically rewrites long-accepted history and shatters some of the most cherished and enduring myths about...

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the...

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form-futuristic, majestic, and progressive-perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels. From the Arroyo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138222Author Jason HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the polity...

During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their white officers-an incredibly...

In the decade of economic expansion following the Second World War, many ordinary Americans travelled abroad for the first time. Those who visited Britain were surprised to find that the people they encountered were not the aristocrats or working-class...

In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is...

Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738580531Author Starley TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880116Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm...

Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831307Author R. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Time Warner Trade PublishingPublisher Time Warner Trade Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193970Author Sam BaltrusisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This title discusses the crisis of the 'house divided'. The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting 'brother against brother'. The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of...

How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic...

It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911081111Author Richard ShortFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Breakdown Press LtdPublisher Breakdown Press Ltd

"An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?"-David J Kent, award-winning scientist and author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America At the...

Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153515Author Scott FerraraFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 155mm *...

North Carolina's eighteenth and nineteenth-century Moravian potters were remarkable artisans whose products included coarse earthenware, slip-trailed decorated ware, Leeds-type fine pottery, press-molded stove tiles, figural bottles, toys, and...

The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life-marriage,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713057Author Harry BruiniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060530341Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570984105Author Martin S. QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)...

There were 26-not 13-British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean-Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica-were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551410Author Brian MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

John Bell Hood had done his job too well. In the fall of 1864, the commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee had harassed Federal forces in north Georgia so badly that the Union commander, William T. Sherman, decided to abandon his position. During...

When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first...

How the United States was created-a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels The story of the Thirteen Colonies' struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American...

This first volume of William Freehling's long-awaited, monumental study of the south's road to disunion offers a sweeping social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here from the Missouri...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733658003Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Sally DentonPublisher Sally DentonWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death-but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon...

George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custer's baptism of fire came during the Civil War. After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861, Custer served from the First Battle of Bull Run (only a...

In two elegant and masterly prefaces, James Weldon Johnson discusses the origin and history of more than 120 of the most significant spirituals known. favourites like "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "Deep River," and "Go Down, Moses" are arranged for voice...