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by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Miloxz’s dictum that “the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” Peopled with such diverse characters as Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, Kafka’s father, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos...
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The Righteous Remnant

The House of David

by Robert S. Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014

Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and ’30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious...
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by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with...
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The Lincoln Assassination Riddle

Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The...
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The Ohio Politics Almanac

Third Edition, Revised and Updated

by Michael Curtin, Joe Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I think there is only one thing in the world I can’t understand, and that is Ohio politics.” If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn’t have been for lack...
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Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929

Diplomacy in the Progressive Era

by James C. Knarr
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011

A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America between Argentina and Brazil, is scant when compared to that...
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The Alternate History

Refigurng Historical Time

by Karen Hellekson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time examines alternate history science fiction using the eschatological, genetic, entropic, and teleological historical models. Hellekson’s original approach explains much of the appeal of alternate history and distinguishes among the many varieties...
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Broken Glass

Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union

by John M. Belohlavek
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001

One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century “The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America’s renaissance figures....
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by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. With...
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Trilateralism and Beyond

Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma During and After the Cold War

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear...
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Democracy and the American Civil War

Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...
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The Pursuit of Public Power

Political Culture in Ohio, 1787-1861

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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Many of the political institutions that would dominate 19th-century America (and the Midwest in particular) originated and first evolved in Ohio. The Pursuit of Public Power explores the origins and nature of political culture here from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Twelve essays examine...
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Steel Valley Klan

The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio's Mahoning Valley

by William D. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014

Jenkins argues that the Klan drew from all social strata in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1920s, contrary to previous theories that predominately lower middle-class WASPs joined the Klan because of economic competition with immigrants.  Threatened by immigrant movement into their neighborhoods, these...
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Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique

From the Old South to the New South and Beyond

by William E. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) rose to great heights as a newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, but his life is surrounded by controversy to this day. Charges that he contributed to the death of his second wife, an heiress whose bequest of five million dollars helped purchase the...
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