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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication an effort to meet the needs of Air Force commanders and other decision makers for a useful reference work on contingencies. One of an ongoing series of reference works, it is organized in the...
Secret Societies of America's Elite
From the Knights Templar to Skull and Bones
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2003
An expose of the dark and critical role secret societies play within the ruling families in America and their influence on American democracy, current events, and world history.
• Reveals the enormous influence secret societies still have on contemporary American life.
• Shows how...
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence,...
Bootleggers and Borders
The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars...
Uprooting Racism
How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion. Meanwhile, inequalities in education, housing, health care, and the job market continue to prevail, while increased insecurity and fear have led to an epidemic of scapegoating...
The American Way of Life
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century reveals key insights that add to our understanding of American culture. Lawrence R. Samuel argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American...
Limits to Friendship
The United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
An unfettered, probing dialogue between Mexican and American political analysts on the complex relationship between their countries.
Few nations are as closely interrelated as the United States and Mexico. Few relationships between nations are so prickly. America's inveterate problem-solving...
by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary...
Ungentlemanly Acts
The Army's Notorious Incest Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
The shocking story behind the U.S. Army's longest court-martial-full of sex, intrigue, and betrayal.
In April 1879, on a remote military base in west Texas, a decorated army officer of dubious moral reputation faced a court-martial. The trial involved shocking issues-of sex and seduction, incest...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why is Colonel pronounced "kernal"? Why does a Lieutenant General outrank a Major General? Why is Navy Captain a higher rank than Army-Air Force-Marine Captain? Why do Sergeants wear chevrons? Was John J. Pershing a six-star General?
The armed forces does not have a handy booklet...
by Charles Wighton, Gunter Peis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
At Nuremberg, in 1945, General Erwin von Lahousen-Vivremont, head of Abwehr II—the sabotage division of the German Armed Forces Secret Service—shocked the world with his revelations of Nazi war crimes. He exposed the activities of Göring, Ribbentrop, and other top-ranking Third Reich officials....
Strange Future
Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline. The United States had entered a period of great anxiety fueled by the shrinking of the white middle class, the increasingly visible misery of poor urban blacks, and the mass immigration of nonwhites. Perhaps more...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Campaign in the Marianas
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 2 tables, 14 charts, 33 maps and 89 illustrations]
In the capture of the southern Marianas during the summer of 1944, Army ground and air forces played an important, though subordinate, role to that of the Navy and its Marine Corps. Marine personnel constituted the bulk of the combat troops...
An Empire Wilderness
Traveling Into America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural...