On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire gra......more

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Headlines declare after each new hint of evidence that the Lost Colony--the English colonists left on Roanoke Island in ......more

A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular culture It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like "......more

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740-1815) impacted the faculty, students and institu......more

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as......more

The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed ......more

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in indus......more

A unique and illuminating exploration of the key relationships that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt into one of America......more

A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form t......more

A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors......more

From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story ......more

Separating "Old Florida" myths from realities in a tourist haven with a deep Indigenous past Themes of unspoiled paradis......more

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present. The Ameri......more

In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields a......more

"Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history--and the American present." ......more

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Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human histor......more

To and Through Nebraska, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this ......more

A Soldier’s Life: Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle, a classical book, has been considered important t......more

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To Geyserland Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroads to the Yellowstone National Park, a classical book, has been con......more

Tobacco in Colonial Virginiab "The Sovereign Remedy", a classical book, has been considered important throughout the hum......more

To Cuba and Back, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is......more

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King’s archiv......more

Before the Flood The lost town of Sopris lies silently beneath the depths of Trinidad Lake. Once a thriving mining commu......more

Timber mills, coal mines and a carnival. In the late 1800s, Lake Whatcom emerged as both the key to the growth of Bellin......more

A magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula mak......more

" We do not know how to commence farming, but we are all willing to try ."--Crow leader Iron Bull On May 7, 1868, the Tr......more

As automobile transportation exploded in the first half of the 20th century, the service station became a part of everyd......more

’A masterly analysis of slavery and republicanism from the left. A stunning achievement’ Gerald Horne, author of The Cou......more

Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often conc......more

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The b......more

Re-envisioning multiculturalism in Canada In 1971, Canada became the first nation in the world to officially declare its......more

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All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor. Traversed ......more

"Life in the Backwoods" is a book written by Susanna Moodie, a British-born Canadian author, and early settler. The full......more

Largely identified with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement continues to have a lasting impact on Amer......more

Details the tense post-Gettysburg pursuit, as Lee and Meade navigate danger and strategy, shaping the course of the Civi......more

This book challenges the historical common sense that the American Revolution terminated in the birth of the United Stat......more

"Senator Charles "Mac" Mathias was a lifelong Republican who easily won every election in a 26-year Congressional career......more

This is the only book to tell, in a way that should appeal to both specialised historians and the general reader, the st......more

In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the n......more

Based on an extensive collection of letters written from the home front and the battlefront, Family War Stories offers f......more

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The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and Vitriol explains the history of poison politics in America by pro......more

A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of "one of the most sensational trials in American history" (New Yor......more

The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-se......more

In 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed, leaving nine players dead and six hospitalized. This ......more

In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal app......more

Includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. An Unfinished Love Story: A P......more

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contai......more

This book takes readers on a journey into Tampa’s historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup kitchens, clubs, and res......more

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During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting t......more

When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. Th......more

Frederick Douglass shares his harrowing journey from bondage to freedom, beginning with his earliest days as a slave, un......more

Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899, a classical book, ha......more

Throwing-sticks in the National Museum, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, an......more

The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, ......more

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human hi......more

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings: A Narrative of Personal Travel, a classical book, has been considered important through......more

Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections of my girlhood, a classical book, has been considered important thro......more

The Smiling Hill-Top, and Other California Sketches, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the huma......more

Society in America, Volume 1, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that ......more

Societies of the Kiowas, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this ......more

Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two gre......more

The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and Vitriol explains the history of poison politics in America by pro......more

Celebrated historian Barry Gough brings a defining era of Pacific Northwest history into focus in this biography of Rich......more

"From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the South’s conservative anti-union efforts to beco......more

According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign "through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams ......more

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Looking at the example of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thirsty Land into Springs of Water answers qu......more

From the Civil War to the Great War, the transatlantic commercial trading system that dated from the nation’s colonial t......more

Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosyst......more