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The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Volume 1, 1906-1919Revealing the little-known facts of Harry Truman's remarkable military performance, as a soldier and as a politician, The Soldier from Independence adds a whole new dimension to the already fascinating character of the thirty-third president of the United States. D. M. Giangreco shows how,...
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How the Cold War Ended: Debating and Doing HistoryThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy....
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Bad Seeds in the Big Apple: Bandits, Killers, and Chaos in New York City, 1920-1940Bad Seeds in the Big Apple' is the first book to profile New York City's notorious bandits, gunmen, and desperados of the Prohibition and Depression eras. While numerous books have been written on the city's organized-crime scene, this book completes the picture by introducing...
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Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: RecitativeA milestone of modern poetry, American history comes to life in the actual words of victims and criminals in its courts. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Charles Reznikoff's book-length...
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San Antonio's Monte Vista: Architecture and Society in a Gilded AgeThis is the definitive work on the 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District, which survives nearly intact from San Antonio's Gilded Age. It is the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. Architects drawn to the burgeoning city from across the country designed...
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The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold WarThis volume features a detailed examination of the perspectives and actions of both the United States and the Soviet Union during the final stage of the Cold war, beginning with the Reagan administration; and analyzes the recent transition from the Cold war to a...
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Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of IndiaThe life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism. On a wintry Delhi...
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The Last Blackrobe of Indiana and the Potawatomi Trail of DeathFrom the forgotten history of 1830s Indiana, John William McMullen unearths the true story of Benjamin Petit, a French Attorney turned missionary priest, and his mission to the Potawatomi People in the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana. Under the urging of the saintly Bishop Simon...
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My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802-1804A detailed and perceptive account of the fur trade seen through the eyes of a teenaged boy.Author: George NelsonPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 06/23/2011Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9780873518383About the AuthorPeers, Laura: - Laura Peers is curator of the...
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Kit Carson & His Three Wives: A Family HistoryKit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family life thanks largely to Carson's own guardianship of his privacy. After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal...
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on EarthIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women...
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the ContinentCritics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his book "a balanced, learned, and lively history of an epochal human exploit" (Choice). Lavender sets the stage with a lucid account of the...
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Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward ExpansionOne of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O'Malley (1903-79) is best remembered--and still reviled by many--for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O'Malley story leading up to the Dodgers' move is...
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Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of JapanWinner of Silver Medal at 2012 IPPY Awards in the sports/fitness/recreation category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards In November 1934, as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League All-Stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie...
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Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry (Revised)In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other "revolutionary" foodstuffs into...
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The Road to Disunion, Volume 2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating...
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the WorldA little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now...
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The 1883 Philadelphia Athletics: American Association ChampionsIn 1883, the Philadelphia Athletics were champions of the American Association. Although they are largely-forgotten today, the team epitomized the Beer and Whiskey League. The summer of 1883 had one of the tightest pennant races in baseball history to that point, with the Athletics...
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Fairey FireflyThe Fairey Firefly two-seater strike-fighter emerged from troubled beginnings to become one of the most widely used and effective aircraft of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It first saw service in 1944 during the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz as it lurked in...
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Black Death: A New History of the Bubonic Plagues of LondonEvidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe ever to hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of the capital today. The fresh plague pits containing thousands of skeletons uncovered during the construction of Crossrail are a reminder of the...
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