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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,...

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of life - political leaders, businesspeople, public...

Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Wooden Leg remembers the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486456102Author Jack JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A concise primer to the political, cultural, and social consequences of the perpetual US global war on terror. An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980200Author Colin DickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

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...

This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups,the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.About the AuthorThomas Sowell has taught economics at a number...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593652961Author Heather Cox RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or...

George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

"I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves."--Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937 A popular companion to the...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752186Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 542gDimensions(mm)...

Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans-including author Diane Foulds-are descended from the twenty individuals executed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449909331Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727273724Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on...

Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574586Author Glenn AdamsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 718g

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's...

The Black Peoples of America is an essential and unique Key Stage 3 resource for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterise the history of Black peoples from Slavery up to the struggle for Civil Rights and life in modern America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486263588Author George KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm)...

Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined, and almost as many Americans as were killed in the entire Vietnam War. But even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905145Author Jermaine FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's...

This revelatory and inclusive book "unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees-behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes" (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor...

We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805920Author Anthony ArnoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 632g

The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security.Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection...

Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865431577Author Robert AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077766Author Susan JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501130830Author Michelle MalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 25mm

The stunning Northern victory at Shiloh in 1942 thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight, claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston, and forever buried the notion that the Civil War would be a short conflict...

"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300...