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by David Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
An epic bicycle journey across the American hinterland that explores the challenges of climate change alongside a diverse array of American voices.
After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned home...
by Susie King Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33D United States Colored Troops, Late 1St S. C. Volunteers is the amazing story of Susie Taylor, a woman born into slavery in Georgia. She married Edward King of the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry and served as the regiment's nurse and cook among other duties.
by Abel Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
From Wikipedia: Abel Stevens (1815–1897) was an American clergyman, editor, and author known for his books on Methodist religious history. He wrote History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, an early history of the church that is frequently referenced in historical...
Blood Runs Green
The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The...
God's Country
Christian Zionism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the United States...
Eurasian
Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How...
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
Transpacific Field of Dreams
How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and...
Differential Diagnoses
A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care...
The Big Ditch
How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal...
An Economic History of the United States
From 1607 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An Economic History of the United States is an accessible and informative survey designed for undergraduate courses on American economic history. The book spans from 1607 to the modern age and presents a documented history of how the American economy has propelled the nation into a position of world...
Big Steel
The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2001
At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support...
by David Prior
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between...
by Thomas D. Schoonover
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898. Then, as today, the United States actively engaged in globalizing its economic order, itspolitical institutions, and its values. Thomas Schoonover argues that this drive to expand political and cultural reach -- the quest for wealth,...