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The Teavangelicals
The Inside Story of How the Evangelicals and the Tea Party are Taking Back America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Teavangelicals is a one-of-a-kind book chock-full of original reporting from the 2012 presidential race with an up-close look at how evangelicals and the Tea Party are plotting strategy to reclaim America. In his trademark breezy, funny, and engaging style, David Brody takes you inside the blossoming...
by Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1984
Alabama's is a story, believes author Virginia V. Hamilton, that bears scrutiny by Alabamians and outsiders alike if they would understand the present.
Pause for a moment before a gallery of fading portraits, and you will sense the beginnings of Alabama's troubled history--homespun pioneers...
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
Catastrophe and Catalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers predicted...
by James Parton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
A biographic sketch of the German that came to America and became the richest American of his time through fur trading and real estate investments.
The Life of Kings
The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach...
by Don Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Who doesnt love a good homicide? Murders, Mysteries and History pulls 150 years of forgotten crimes straight from the pages of yesterdays news and stirs them in a historical mix to produce a book like no other. Get the scoop on more than a hundred real-life murders and unsolved killings. Vics, suspects,...
The Oregon Trail
An American Saga
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.
Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu—literally “the Trail Where...
Nez Perce Summer, 1877
The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment...
Ghosts of 42nd Street
A History of America's Most Infamous Block
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.
Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever...
Banned in Boston
The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.”
—an anonymous Bostonian, 1929
In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America,...
Chicago by Gaslight
A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...
Root and Branch
African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes...