United States category: 34172 books
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework...
Health Divided
Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The United States’ health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternative paths might have been taken, and how this shapes the contemporary landscape, Daniel Sledge offers...
by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This textbook offers an insightful, introductory overview of the history of American society from its inception right up to present day. With coverage starting at the European Settlement in 1492 right through to the 2016 Presidential Election, this fully revised new edition succinctly depicts the...
by Major John A. Polhamus
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This work is a detailed historical study of the Second World War’s little known Aleutian Campaign in the North Pacific, commonly referred to as the “Forgotten War.” After describing the events that transpired in the North Pacific throughout the war, this work focuses on the strategic reasons...
by Michael C. LeMay
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This invaluable resource investigates U.S. immigration and policy, making links the ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants to the United States to trends in immigration, both legal and unauthorized.
• Presents data in 15 tables that provide insight into the relationships between...
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by Major Carl W. Hoffman USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On the outcome of the Battle of Saipain hung the fate of the Pacific War, if the Japanese were to lost this island then the Home Islands would finally be in range of serious American bombing. As the fanatical resistance of the Japanese was raised to fever pitch by the exhortations of the high command,...
by Chris McAuliffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Chicago was the center of bicycle manufacturing in the United States. As an early industrial and transportation center, two-thirds of all bicycles manufactured in the United States were from Chicago--it was the Detroit of bike manufacturing. For decades, Chicago...
Boricua Power
A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence...
Tribal Laws, Treaties, and Government
A Lakota Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Oglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, "The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it." Initially the method of taking Indian land was through treaties, a legitimate and acceptable agreement between Indian nations and the United...
American Foreign Relations
A New Diplomatic History
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic and strategic motives, Walter L. Hixson integrates key cultural factors—including race, gender, and...
The Purposes of Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessions whose...
Migrating Fictions
Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration,...
Maxwell Land Grant
Facsimile of 1942 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest on August 15, 1846, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude. This problem continued for decades until 1870 when the United States Congress suddenly declined to act at all on any New Mexico grant claim. Among the...
by Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . ” — The U.S Constitution
The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings is part of the Word Cloud Classics series and a collection of the crucial documents that established the United States. In addition...