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Border Contraband
A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande...
by George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In this insightful book about constitutional law and slavery, George Anastaplo illuminates both how the history of race relations in the United States should be approached and how seemingly hopeless social and political challenges can be usefully considered through the lens of the U.S. Constitution....
by Joshua Horwitz, Casey Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The NRA steadfastly maintains that the 30,000 gun-related deaths and 300,000 assaults with firearms in the United States every year are a small price to pay to guarantee freedom. As former NRA President Charlton Heston put it, "freedom isn't free."
And when gun enthusiasts talk about...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States...
Stand, Columbia
A History of Columbia University
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide.
"Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904)
Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and...
A Muslim in Victorian America
The Life of Alexander Russell Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim...
A Nation Among Nations
America's Place in World History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today
Americans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas...
United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - the Fall of the Philippines
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 11 tables, 25 maps and 71 illustrations]
The soldier reading these pages would do well to reflect on the wisdom of the statement exhibited in a Japanese shrine: "Woe unto him who has not tasted defeat." Victory too often leads to overconfidence and erases the memory of mistakes....
by Bill Nye
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished, and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. ...
The Darkest Year
The American Home Front 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.
For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese...
Making Marriage Work
A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin...
Ark of the Liberties
Why American Freedom Matters to the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world yet unappreciated. America's decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former presidential speechwriter, reminds...
The Problem of Emancipation
The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History
While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation,...
Dollar Diplomacy by Force
Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventions—and ended up achieving exactly the opposite. Using military and government records from the United States and the Dominican...