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by David N. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the long...
The Archive Thief
The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs...
Bismarck:A Life
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
The New York City Draft Riots
Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1991
For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black...
Sleuthing the Alamo:Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of...
Inventing the Dream
California through the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1986
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that...
The Frontier Club
Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the...
Lone Star Lawmen : The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Hailed as "a rip-snortin' six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same" Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now in the eagerly anticipated conclusion Lone Star Lawmen Utley once again chronicles...
A History of US: Reconstructing America
1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re United States. Railroad tycoons were...
Greater Gotham
A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national...
William Randolph Hearst
The Later Years, 1911-1951
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the most powerful media mogul the world had ever seen, and in the process earned himself the title of...
William Randolph Hearst
The Early Years, 1863-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in William Randolph Hearst, Ben Procter gives us the most authoritative account of Hearst's...
Disruptive Power
The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing...