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Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a...

High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore feature heavily in this fantastic new book from Stackpole. Pirates of Virginia recounts the remarkable stories of the Accomac and Revolutionary war privateers. Famous characters such as the...

Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercantile and fiscal policies, they had to believe that they could stand up to the fully armed British soldier. Prelude...

To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment "thou shalt not kill" and Jesus' admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the...

In May 1862 the battle of Williamsburg was fought just outside of the quiet town. Union troops now occupied the city, and throughout the rest of the war, Williamsburg residents, who had enthusiastically supported the Confederacy, were forced to endure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543413Author Seth H BramsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought-the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement-the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and...

President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but...

From the colonial era to 1914, America was a debtor nation in international accounts-owing more to foreigners than foreigners owed to us. By 1914 it was the world's largest debtor nation. Mira Wilkins provides the first complete history of foreign...

Frontier IndianaAndrew R. L. Cayton"The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the book should be on the required text list for all Transappalachian frontier courses." -HistoryCayton's lively new history of...

In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the...

First published in 1956, Empire in Wood is the definitive history of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, from its predecessors, the carpenters' trade unions established at the turn of the nineteenth century, to the immediate...

Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding...

Unprecedented in size and scope, this directory describes more than 500 paper mills on the basis of census records, archival sources, local histories, and watermark evidence. It traces economic developments and technological changes in the American paper...

The author discusses what he sees as "the mutual attraction between presidents and celebrities from Kennedy to Reagan. . . . Kennedy, he argues, took celebrity politics 'to a whole new level'; Nixon learned how to manufacture celebrity; . . . and...

In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366397440Author Lincoln Financial FoundationFormat HardbackPage Count 44Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780260362766Author Lincoln Financial FoundationFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

This is the first large-scale analysis of immigrant life in America to focus on habits of consumption. Hienze relies on primary sources to show how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption in America, familiarizing themselves with activities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543376Author William T TurnerFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717803897Author Philip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717803880Author Philip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 475Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc...

This is the biographical story of the Old Dominion in the light of its contribution to the greatness of America. Volume I deals with the colonial era, and Volume II deals with the national era. No book could more ably demonstrate Carlyle's well-known...

A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation,...

-- Barry Rubin, Johns Hopkins UniversityBook InformationISBN 9780231081849Author Abraham Ben-ZviFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

The American Civil War was by far the bloodiest conflict in American history. Arising out of a political crisis over the expansion of slavery, the war set the stage for the emergence of the modern American nation-state. This new interpretation of one of...

While visiting Europe in 1844, Harry McCall of Philadelphia wrote to his cousin back home of his disappointment. He didn't mind Paris, but he preferred the company of Americans to Parisians. Furthermore, he vowed to be "an American, heart and soul"...

A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. The best short history available of the politics...

Coast Calendar, says its Pulitzer Prizewinning author, is the story of the work and play, the human nature and the weather, the fauna and flora, the ups and downs in a simple, all-around Maine family that mixes farming of the sea with farming of the land...

This book reviews the evolution of the modern vice presidency -- the historical events and developments that have contributed to the expansion of the office beyond its largely legislative branch character to include diverse and important executive branch...

The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet numerous federal judges--led by the Supreme Court--have used the Constitution as a blank check to substitute their own views on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954446130Author Michael FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543123Author Jacqueline CoutureFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738517391Author U L "Rusty" PattersonFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738549064Author Randall GabrielanFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738545509Author Hollis Ricci-CanhamFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543741Author Lizzie PRB JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738543390Author Mary M FlekkeFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738514611Author The 150 CommitteeFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

In Private Wealth and Public Life, historian Judith Sealander analyzes the role played by private philanthropic foundations in shaping public policy during the early years of this century. Focusing on foundation-sponsored attempts to influence policy in...