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by Paul S. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our nation. Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating...
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary...
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
A Sensory History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege,...
Forgotten Dead
Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons...
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local...
by the late Nathan Irvin Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword...
Roosevelt's Second Act
The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
"In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it." --David McCullough On August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President...
Why Geography Matters
Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency...
The Restoration of Rome
Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among...
Gotham
A History of New York City to 1898
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of...
Most of 14th Street Is Gone
The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the *Washington Post'*s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1988
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
The American Dream
A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the...
by Craig L. Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the...