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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568585987Author Ibram X. KendiFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274029Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

America: A Narrative History puts narrative front and centre with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colourful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect the state of our history and society by continuing...

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions...

At six feet, four inches, Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. James Buchanan was the only president who never married. Ulysses was originally President Grant's middle name and the famous S was the result of an accidental switch. From George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938065057Author Nina O'LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Makwa EnewedPublisher Makwa EnewedWeight(grams) 544g

This book explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the twentieth century. Written by scholars who grew up after World War II and the Holocaust who participated in political struggles in the 1960s and 1970s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545143933Author William P Lazarus M aFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585361298Author Michael ShouldersFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Sleeping Bear PressPublisher Sleeping Bear PressWeight(grams) 454g

The use of history in law is a time honoured tradition. Over the years the practise has assumed many forms to include historicism, intentionalism, interpretivist history, law office history, historical narrative and originalism. History, Originalism, and...

Lynching occurred more in Mississippi than in any other state. During the 100 years after the Civil War, almost one in every ten lynchings in the United States took place in Mississippi. As in other Southern states, these brutal murders were carried...

On November 14, 1957, state troopers raided an estate in Apalachin, New York, and arrested 59 affluent men, with nearly as many more escaping through the surrounding woods. The next morning's headlines hailed the gathering as a summit meeting of...

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At least 227 mob lynchings took place on Missouri soil between 1803 and 1981, all of which are identified, confirmed, and documented in this first investigation of the state's lynching history. The first four chapters focus on lynchings which took place...

Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid - 1800s, scalpers, known as ""sidewalk men,"" were charging all the traffic would bear for event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as pariah...

Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, the Churchills toured Canada and the U.S. Notable...

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze...

Between the time of the settling of Jamestown and the Trail of Tears in the 1830's, thousands of American Indians were induced to cede their lands to European settlers and move westward. This book, with the aid of maps and pictures, relies primarily on...

A powerful text by an acclaimed historian, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, concise and integrated American history. In the Sixth Edition, Eric Foner addresses a question that has motivated, divided and stirred passionate debates: "Who is...

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916899Author Jim WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307454362Author George WillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America’s eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today’s leaders. “A discerning examination of what all of us can learn from some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541662Author William BoelhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 152g

People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder...

"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future, and...

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433943Author Arbie OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the national anthem of the United States? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, nowhere more...

For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) exerted an outsized pull on the political stage. Formed in 1947 by anticommunist liberals such as economist John Kenneth Galbraith and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the ADA established itself as the...

During the first half of the nineteenth century a major shift occurred in the medical treatment of illness in the United States, as physicians abandoned the use of "heroic" depletive therapies -- the pukes and purges made famous in the 1790s by...

When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provide her daughter with medical care, choosing instead to rely on spiritual healing. During the next few...

For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have...

While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles between the Northern and Southern armies, the Union was simultaneously waging another campaign, dubbed "Anaconda", that was gradually depriving the South of industry and commerce. When an...

Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first...

When it comes to American Indian treaties, the American polity too often forgets the realities of history. Prevailing perceptions are often not only inaccurate but also premised on outright falsehoods. Treaty-making was profoundly influenced by tribal...

Underscores the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed during the exclusion eraBook InformationISBN 9781592134342Author Sucheng ChanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Temple University Press,U.S...

Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commercial and domestic gas lighting system marketed for use in homes and businesses outside of a city's gas works. The self-contained unit was perfectly suited to...

John Anthony Caruso’s The Appalachian Frontier, first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation at the beginning of its westward expansion. Bringing to life the region’s history from its earliest seventeenth-century scouting parties to...