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An encyclopedic dictionary that treats organizations, persons, and federal legislation that document the history of grass-roots community organizing. Focusing on neighborhood associations in the US from the 1880s to the present, the work includes more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313243561Author Roger L. NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

As a compendium of historical statistics on native American tribes, Nations will fill a unique niche in most academic and large public libraries with reference or research interests in North American Indian affairs. Drawing upon a wide variety of...

Charles J. Rooney offers an analysis and descriptive bibliography of American utopian fiction between 1865 and 1917, the most productive period in the history of this genre. Rooney explores the history and sources of utopian writing in America, as...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313233371Author Joseph M. HawesFormat HardbackPage Count 711Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

This is a thorough and reliable account of Frances Vasquez de Coronado, the Spanish protege of the Mexican viceroy, who was the first white explorer of the Southwest. Four hundred years ago he led a band through parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,...

Modern American demographic history emerged as a clearly defined discipline in the 1960s when historians began to realize the full value of demographic information to their studies of both population and more indirectly related subjects. In recent years...

The contributors to this volume examine the popular images of twenty-two American presidents. They attempt to determine the public standing of these presidencies and consider each president in terms of his image over time. It is argued that fluctuations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313226465Author Richard H. RovereFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

American Studies: Topics and Sources (Greenwood Press, 1976) indexed notable essays in American studies written through 1976 that appeared in American Studies International, the foremost journal in the field. The present volume, Sources for American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313221620Author Charles Soutter CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 385Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313211348Author Melvin G. HolliFormat HardbackPage Count 447Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313211195Author Con HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208348Author John H. BunzelFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313205224Author Ronald LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A study of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.Book InformationISBN 9780313205088Author Marvin SchickFormat HardbackPage Count 371Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313203176Author Marianna P. SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This study concludes that the Court generally harmonized the demands of society with the Constitution, a process that resulted in modernizing the law to make it serviceable in the twentieth century. Based on consideration of all the cases decided in the...

The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged...

This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the...

This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312320232Author Forrest ChurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 251g

On Saturday night, November 28, 1942, Boston suffered its worst disaster ever. At the city's premier nightspot, the Cocoanut Grove, the largest nightclub fire in U.S. history took the lives of 492 people- nearly one of every two people on the premises. A...

The only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-largest cityWhen the Civil War began in 1861, Philadelphia was an important industrial centre behind the Northern war effort. The city boasted two large...

In one of very few balanced accounts of Texas's epic struggle for independence from Mexico, Albert Nofi provides a splendid chronicle of the events and personalities of the war. He includes readable and accessible maps of military movements and a...

On September 17, 1862, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War, the Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan clashed with Lee's invading Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam Creek. General Francis W. Palfrey (1831-1889), then lieutenant colonel...

John G. Nicolay (1832-1901) was an undeniably apt and brilliant choice to inaugurate the landmark Campaigns of the Civil War series. Private secretary to President Lincoln and coauthor (with John Hay) of the monumental, ten-volume Lincoln biography,...

This fascinating collection of intimate letters from and to Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) illuminates the character and personality of the President of the Confederacy. These letters (the majority appearing fully in print for the first time) range widely...

On March 9, 1862, the ""battle of the century"" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack.Book InformationISBN 9780306805233Author A. HoehlingFormat...

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When John Bell Hood entered into the services of the Confederate Army, he was 29 years old, a handsome man and courageous soldier, loyal to the ideal of Confederate Independence and eager to fight for it. He led his men bravely into the battles of Second...

Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fold focus: on the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"...

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotismshaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential...

For too many people, America has become the primary symbol of all that is grotesque, deadening, and oppressive. It is time, says James Ceaser in this provocative book, to take America back, to reaffirm confidence in our principles, and to remind...

This book tells the intriguing and paradoxical story of a nation that overthrew British rule only to become fascinated by the glamor of its royal family. Examining American attitudes toward British royalty from the Revolutionary period to the death of...

An engaging collection of travel accounts by Russian writers-among them Maxim Gorky and Grigorij Machtet- who visited America around the turn of the century. The documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, are interwoven with...

For many, 'going back to the land' brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s - hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and...

In a book written out of a passionate belief in the staying powers of the democratic principles, a noted historian has written a major work that may be described as an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880s. "Impressive in...

Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other...

J. Butler Wright brought his young bride and son to Russia in the fall of 1916 to take up duties as counselor to the American Embassy in Petrograd. He had no idea that he would soon witness one of the most amazing events in history-the collapse of...