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The 9/11 Commission Report: Complete Edition
Full and Complete Account of the Circumstances Surrounding the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The 9/11 Commission Report" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country....
20th Century American History Book 1
The United States Studies for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
20th Century American History tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the 20th century from the bottom up. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons. The subjects include exploration, revolution, social...
20th Century American History Book 3
The United States Studies for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
20th Century American History tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the 20th century from the bottom up. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons. The subjects include exploration, revolution, social...
Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's...
by Deborah D Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"Displays the full range of informed, thoughtful opinion on the place of Jews in the American politics of identity."
---David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, University of California, Berkeley
"A fascinating anthology whose essays crystallize the...
American History Unbound
Asians and Pacific Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding...
Bodies of War
World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what to do with their fallen loved ones: ship them home for burial or leave them permanently in Europe, in makeshift graves that would be eventually transformed into cemeteries in France,...
The Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes The War of 1898, On Becoming Cuban, and Cuba in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Louis A. Perez Jr. is one of the most influential historians of Cuba. Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set brings together three of Perez's most acclaimed works on Cuba and its relations to the United States.
This Omnibus Ebook contains:
The...
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This small volume discusses on one of the most hysterical topics on American history. The foundations of the republic of United States is a much discussed historical subject mired with dynamic emotional elements and rhetoric. It is indeed one of the epic episodes not just of the foundation of the...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
On the Brink of Nuclear War: Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States.
Note: This is a short history.
During the 1950s, the big fear was nuclear war. From the Soviet Union’s perspective, having a communist stronghold so close to the American border was a dream...
by John J. Tierney, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The turbulent occupation of Iraq has once again embroiled the United States military in an unconventional war. Chasing Ghosts is a study of unconventional warfare in American military history and its implications for the present and future. John J. Tierney examines AmericaÆs numerous past experiences...
Nation to Nation
Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indians explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold...
The Rural Cemetery Movement
Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead. Rather, the founders of Mount Auburn and the...