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Defining Americans: The Presidency and National IdentityWinner: Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication AwardWinner: APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Legacy AwardAndrew Jackson spoke to Americans in ways that reflected the concerns of a young nation. Grover Cleveland helped citizens redefine themselves after the havoc of the Civil War era. FDR confronted...
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The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces: Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern ResistanceIn order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts within the US military. The problem was that equality of opportunity never guaranteed acceptance--nor was it designed to. In The Racial Integration of...
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An Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue CreekIn An Apache Nightmare, Charles Collins tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek, a pivotal event in the Apache Wars. On August 28, 1881, Col. Eugene Asa Carr left Fort Apache, Arizona Territory, with two cavalry troops and a company of Indian...
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Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856Pueblo, Hardscrabble, and Greenhorn were among the very first white settlements in Colorado. In their time they were the most westerly settlements in American territory, and they attracted a lively and varied population of mavericks from more civilized parts of the world-from what became...
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Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations Volume 12Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from...
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Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947On June 24th, 1947, a private pilot reported numerous dazzling objects rushing through the sky above Mount Rainier in Washington state. It was the start of the current UFO phenomena, one of the country's most perplexing and persistent mysteries. Within a few weeks, hundreds...
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Israel: A HistoryWritten by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against...
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Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition Volume 29The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country's attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho....
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A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's DiscoveryFrom July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year's provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker...
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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening the of American WestIn life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries-explorers Meriwether...
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Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the LowlandsAs the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a...
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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban SketchesFirst published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that...
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Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston During the Civil Rights Eravolume 5Winner of the Lynna Kay Shuffield Memorial Award in Texas Jewish History, 2022. Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston's history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of...
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Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment EraExamining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier....
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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar OrderEric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank--the key international financial institutions of the postwar global...
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest: Music to Change the WorldCrosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most enduring musical acts of the 1960s. This book examines their songs and themes, which continue to...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern AmericaRevisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing--authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines--from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi...
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Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies...
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Mestizos Come Home!, 19: Making and Claiming Mexican American IdentityUruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia--unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino...
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The French Revolution in Global PerspectiveSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out...
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