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The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point"The extensive use of primary sources makes this book of interest to all Civil War enthusiasts." -- Library JournalAntietam. For generations of Americans this word--the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland--held the same sense of horror and carnage that the simple date...
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The Black Hawk War of 1832In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Here, Patrick J. Jung re-examines the causes, course, and consequences...
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The Discoverie of WitchcraftThey sacrifice their owne children to the divell before baptisme, holding them up in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines ... They use incestuous adulterie with spirits ... They eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of men...
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Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by MinuteThe battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army.Later the same day, a...
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Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: By One of the Early Day PioneersPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of the grass." Almost...
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The Dakota War of 1862: Minnesota's Other Civil WarWhile the Civil War raged in the East and South, Dakota Indians in Minnesota erupted violently into action against white settlers, igniting the tragic Dakota War of 1862. Hemmed in on a narrow reservation along the upper Minnesota River, the Dakota (Sioux) were frustrated...
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F-111: Fort Worth SwingerAt the time of its introduction into service, the F-111 was a revolutionary aircraft and was, without doubt, extremely popular. Capable of delivering a wide variety of ordnance, with a high degree of survivability, it was arguably one of the best tactical aircraft of...
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma CityAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up "within a fortnight," the city's residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home. But the territory's creation was never so...
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Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in MinnesotaCCC veterans tell compelling stories of their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, building state parks, and reclaiming pastureland in this collective history of the CCC in Minnesota. The Civilian Conservation Corps--born out of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal at the height of the Great...
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Weimar Germany: Promise and TragedyThe definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the Year Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century--one...
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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways...
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Mormon CountryWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the...
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Radio BenjaminWalter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin...
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Blood of Noble Men: The Alamo Siege & BattleThe Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, "transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth." Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definition of American character. The date of March 6, 1836, is forever...
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the WestThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their military service, their social lives, and their interactions with western...
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Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President KennedyPainstakingly researched by an authority on the history of the Secret Service and based on primary, firsthand accounts from more than 80 former agents, White House aides, and family members, this is the definitive account of what went wrong with John F. Kennedy's security...
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the IlluminatiPresenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Describing this enigmatic community in meticulous detail, more than 1,000 endnotes are included, citing scholars, professors, and...
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the WorldMost fans of women's basketball would be startled to learn that girls' teams were making their mark more than a century ago--and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like "lambent flames" across the...
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The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East EuropeA major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides...
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort SillFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal point...
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