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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493042326Author Paul AronFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Lyons PressPublisher Lyons PressWeight(grams) 152g

Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like "breaking news") and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery-what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Lost America is an illustrated...

The study of U.S. history is experiencing a transformation as instructors reconsider traditional national narratives that frame understandings of the history of the nation and the world. Placing U.S. history in its broader, international context enriches...

Shines a new light on a dark era in American journalismBook InformationISBN 9781592133420Author Edward AlwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307474322Author Scott Reynolds NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306g

Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family's textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much...

On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending hostilities between the two countries and ceding over one-half million square miles of land to the northern victors. In Mexico,...

Children's full-color book with each illustration portraying several elements indigenous to Montana that begin with the accompanying letter.Book InformationISBN 9780937959329Author Gayle Corbett ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Falcon Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625344984Author Alea HenleFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

In the wake of 9/11, many Americans have deplored the dangers to liberty posed by a growing surveillance state. In this book, Andrea Friedman moves beyond the standard security/liberty dichotomy, weaving together often forgotten episodes of early Cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197619124Author C Donald JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? "Advertising the American Dream" looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819171474Author Peter CollierFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of AmericaWeight(grams) 603g

Selected from the increasingly popular Montana History Conference session--Jerks in Montana History--this collection of Montana Hall of Shame members includes Lewis and Clark's infamous guide Toussaint Charbonneau, Helena's notorious newspaper editor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497437Author Michael MedvedFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc

Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J. R. Giddings. The men who enlisted in the...

The author of this work surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their...

For more than four hundred years, members of the author’s family have been telling stories about their American lives. They have told of impassioned elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hairbreadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399537530Author Owen J. HurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472038725Author Herbert F. WeisbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

American explorers have played a significant and exciting role in some of the greatest discoveries on Earth. From the exploration of the North American "wild west," to the discovery of the North Pole, explorers from America are some of our most...

In this deftly researched ethnographic portrait, Suzanne M. Sinke skillfully adapts the concept of social reproduction to examine the shifting gender roles of tens of thousands of Dutch Protestant women who crossed the Atlantic from 1880 to 1920 to make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595310071Author Christopher AngusFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 372g

Exploring the relationship between the state and the private sector in the development of American foreign oil policy, Stephen Randall argues that policy has been consistently dependant on maintaining a delicate balance between private and public...

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 9781487586911Author Stephen LeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW into prominence and touched off a wave of sit-down strikes across the United States. Basing his account...

Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake held despite a preponderance of evidence; a mistake that harms us. In the...

Business is woven into the very fabric of American life yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails to mirror actual business organizations. This book argues that literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558498792Author David WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts PressWeight(grams)...

Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th...

The story of the relationship of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Tammany Hall of New York has never been completely told. FDR's dealings with the New York machine have received piecemeal treatment in numerous monographs and histories that record his life...

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871543073Author John H. MollenkopfFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth...

-- The New York Times Book ReviewBook InformationISBN 9780231099813Author Clarence TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Throughout the nineteenth century, African heritage played an important role in black America, as personal memories and cultural practices continued to shape the everyday experience of people of African descent living under the shadow of slavery...

American presidents and Hollywood have interacted since the 1920s. This relationship has made our entertainment more political and our political leadership more aligned with the world of movies and movie stars.In The Leading Man, Burton W. Peretti...

A Great and Good Man presents a lively collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses, and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. Washington would become, after his death, a true symbol of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933272528Author Dan MarcouFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Thunder Bay Press MichiganPublisher Thunder Bay Press MichiganWeight(grams) 408g