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Branch Line Empires: The Pennsylvania and the New York Central RailroadsThe Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late 19th century, the two lines were among America's largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR...
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Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History, with Images in 3D"If you love Brooklyn or bridges or New York City or cities or 19th century marvels--or all of the above, as I do--Building the Brooklyn Bridge is a perfect feast, a would-be time-traveler's delight, overflowing with rare and evocative and fascinating images. It's a...
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that...
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Kennan: A Life Between WorldsThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of...
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain Lib/E: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental RailroadAuthor: Gordon H. ChangPublisher: HighBridge AudioPublished: 05/07/2019Binding Type: CDWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 6.06h x 6.69w x 1.18dISBN: 9781665123655About the AuthorChang, Gordon H.: - Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in humanities and professor of history at Stanford University, where he also serves as...
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Rachel to the Rescue Lib/ERachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call a personal friend...
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Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and VirginiaForty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the...
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Old Southern Bible Records. Transcriptions of Births, Deaths, and Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th CenturiesThis transcription of genealogical records found in 581 Southern family Bibles provides data on more than 15,000 individuals. Originally compiled in seven volumes of typescripts, the Bible records have been reassembled here and integrated into a single alphabetical sequence under the names of the...
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Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806; Parts 1 & 2 Volume 2This set was first published in 1904 from the manuscripts of the American Philosophical Society together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark and from other sources including notebooks, letters...
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Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhanIn a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation. Author: Daniel J. CzitromPublisher: University of North Carolina...
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A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American IdentityA Home Away from Home examines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation of a Pan-Caribbean American identity and Black diasporic politics. At the turn of the twentieth century, New...
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I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights MovementThe civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate...
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Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...
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Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold WarDuring the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev were not part of these grassroots movements, they too wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons. Nuclear abolitionism was...
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Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health CareHospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high level of health care...
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Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in UruguayDuring the country's dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle, Debbie Sharnak explores how activists, transnational social movements, and international policymakers collaborated and clashed in...
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War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil WarDuring his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the better angels of our nature would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. The better angels did not, but for many Americans, the evil ones did. War Is All Hell peers into the...
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Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and BostonIn the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War had organized an...
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Latin America and the Global Cold WarLatin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global...
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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After ReconstructionBetween 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined...
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