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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of...

From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels - and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their...

"...a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare...I have long hoped for a sound history of Civil War military staffs...I need hope no more; Hagerman has covered this subject also, with the same assured...

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867223Author Robert GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 956g

America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of...

How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer-systems management-in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists,...

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037385Author Peter IronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought her extraordinary life to an abrupt and mysterious end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864130Author Carol AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 332g

A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118107Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 109mm...

Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044292Author Christopher FinanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2013 and Lincoln Prize 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780307740694Author Allen GuelzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737823100Author Ronald GrunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Libratum.PressPublisher Libratum.PressWeight(grams) 857gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes,...

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298340Author Noah FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Rachel May's rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era-all through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250251091Author Daniel ImmerwahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American...

Probably no murder during the 20th century received more media coverage than did the Coo murder trial. The time: 1934. The place: Oneonta, New York.Book InformationISBN 9780925168603Author Niles EgglestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North...

Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194025Author Craig Steven WilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 546g

The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps combines the colorful, detailed maps of an atlas with the vivid storytelling of the best narratives to piece together the nation-spanning jigsaw puzzle of the American Civil War. See the conflict develop from...

Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes -...

Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations - a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240564Author Katie RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few...

North America's Indian peoples have always viewed competitive sport as something more than a pastime. The northeastern Indians' ball-and-stick game that would become lacrosse served both symbolic and practical functions-preparing young men for war,...

America is a nation whose sense of righteousness goes hand in hand with paranoia. Greil Marcus explores the influence of culture and politics on the American psyche - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives...

The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers - geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual - that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American...

The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt...

In this collection of essays, prominent historians survey the Hiroshima story from the American decision to drop the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, DC. The first essay surveys the literature on the...

What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized...

This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment...