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American Fanatics: Religion, Rebellion, and Empire in the Nineteenth CenturyShows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroad In 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged with a threatening cloud of fanaticism." Indeed, during the nineteenth century the...
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The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the Us WestThe Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and far-reaching role in transforming the United States' economic, political,...
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When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992In the 1980s, the Midwestern economic collapse caused by the farm crisis and deindustrialization inspired the region's liberal politicians to call on progressive populist traditions to rebuild local, state, and national Democratic parties. Cory Haala looks at the Midwest's central role in asserting an...
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Sharpe's Storm: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of Southern France, 1813A gripping novel featuring the legendary Richard Sharpe from Bernard Cornwell, the internationally bestselling master of historical fiction widely recognized as "the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today" (Wall Street Journal).The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter...
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank WisnerFrom Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions--resonates with the international crises we see...
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in AmericaOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions of enslavers, the struggles and victories of the enslaved,...
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to DemocracyThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy...
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Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the HolocaustOne and a half million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. The Nazis' goal to eradicate the entire Jewish population in Europe included children--from infants to teenagers--who were targeted as part of the coordinated genocide that led to the murder of six million...
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Little Edna's War: A True story of Resistance and Hope. A Gripping WWII page-turnerThey tried to erase her. Instead, she became a legend.At just seven years old, Edna Szurek risked everything to smuggle food through holes in the Warsaw Ghetto wall, knowing each step could be her last. By the age of 10, she was the youngest...
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Confronting Bad History -- How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation TrialConfronting Bad History is about our history's most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln' assassin escaped justice. John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended...
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Art for All. Art HistoryA comprehensive volume covering five seminal genres that shaped art, from the late 19th century and well into the 20th: Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Each approach was distinct in aesthetic and philosophy, but all had immediate impact and enduring influence....
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American CommunismA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond. Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and ending only with the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the U.S....
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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years"It is morning again in America," Reagan's campaign commercials told us, and for too long we embraced that convenient lie. Indeed, the problems that came to plague us in that decade are with us even more today, as Johnson memorably demonstrates in--his afterword, "Notes...
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John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack LandscapeAn intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story...
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No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate CrisisAuthor: Thomas ZeitzoffPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/16/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.45w x 0.95dISBN: 9780197796849About the AuthorThomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. His...
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Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold WarTHE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WARHow Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a "shining city upon a hill."On October 25th,1983 President Ronald Reagan launched one of the...
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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation"Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New York Times When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to...
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Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical ChicA rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era. One of the most divisive issues in recent progressive politics has been what role, if any,...
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The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-And-Run Off the Coast of NantucketThe American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best be described as a maritime hit-and-run. Adriatic's captain, Jonathan Durham, rendered no aid and left the passenger steamship to...
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Bright One: Bright One Series: Book OneWhen desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around...
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