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The Making of Modern America
The Nation from 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson’s highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloguing the sweeping changes and major events...
Patriot's History® of the Modern World, Vol. II
From the Cold War to the Age of Entitlement, 1945-2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The bestselling historians turn their focus to America’s role in the world since the end of World War II
Schweikart, author of the number one New York Times bestseller A Patriot’s History of the United States, and Dougherty take a critical look at America, from the postwar boom to her search...
Against Wind and Tide
The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black...
The Loyal Republic
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights....
by Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, James Otis & Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The American Revolution is well ingrained in the minds of every American, who grows up learning famous phrases like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and We the People. The narrative of the social and political rebellion against the British Empire that ended with 13 colonies forming the United...
by Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
From Discovery Of America October 12, 1492
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
Rogue State
The Unconstitutional Process of Establishing West Virginia Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Rogue State chronicles how West Virginia entered—and remains—in the Union under unconstitutional circumstances. Its severance from Virginia and reincorporation as a new state in 1863 occurred outside the bounds of constitutional legality. The United States government, while pledged to prevent...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The adoption of the Bill of Rights was the last step in defining the essential elements of American constitutionalism. The process began with the writing of the Constitution, continued through its ratification by the states, and culminated with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In 1991 the bicentennial...
The American Press and the Cold War
The Rise of Authoritarianism in South Korea, 1945–1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
During the Cold War, the United States enabled the rise of President Syngman Rhee’s repressive government in South Korea, and yet neither the American occupation nor Rhee’s growing authoritarianism ever became particularly controversial news stories in the United States. Could the press have done...
The Ethnic Project
Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating...
Howard Zinn Speaks
Collected Speeches 1963-2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
"Howard Zinn—there was no one like him. And to hear him speak was like listening to music that you loved—lyrical, uplifting, honest."—Michael Moore
"Zinn's speeches . . . are a joy and an inspiration."—Marisa Tomei
"Collected here for the first time,...
by Curtis Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Intimate behind-the-scenes recollections of Ronald Reagan by those who knew him during his early political career in California—photos included!
People often wonder: “What was Reagan like privately?” “How did he treat his children?” “How did he handle pressure?” “How did he handle...