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The Apache Wars: The History and Legacy of the U.S. Army's Campaigns against the Apaches*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting described by American soldiers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Even if we should be able to dislodge them from the rough mountain ridges and impenetrable woods which cover...
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The American Studies AnthologyA rich and rewarding subject of popular imagination, the United States is compellingly portrayed in this first anthology designed specifically for American studies courses. Offering an indispensable introduction to the long and varied history of generalizing about America, leading scholar Richard Horwitz has compiled...
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The Alice Crimmins CaseOne hot summer, two young children disappeared from their first-floor apartment in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported them missing to the police. Later that day, the body of four-year-old Missy was found in a vacant lot,...
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Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945: Red SteamrollerAn exploration of the pivotal shift on the Eastern Front during World War II, highlighting how the Red Army's mechanized forces gained supremacy over the Wehrmacht's armies.By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on...
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Tamed: From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human HistoryDogs became companions.Wheat fed booming populations.Cattle gave us meat and milk.Corn fueled the growth of empires.Potatoes brought feast and famine.Chickens inspired new branches of science.Rice promised a golden future.Horses gave us strength and speed.Apples allowed harvestable sweetness.Humans tamed them all--while also steering our own...
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Take Back Our Party: Restoring the Democratic LegacyOnce upon a time, the Democrats were the party of the people-of the New Deal, unions, and the War on Poverty. The New Democrats, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama changed all that. Scarred by the Reagan Revolution, they abandoned their party's historical identity. They...
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Sylvester of Antioch: Life and Achievements of an 18th-Century Christian Orthodox PatriarchIn 1724, Sylvester, a native of the island of Cyprus, was elected Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East. For more than four decades, he endeavored to preserve the legacy of one of the earliest Christian Churches in the...
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Symbols of the Vikings - Myth and Truth: A revelation of Icelandic magic, its roots and the misconceptions of todaySymbols of the Vikings - Myth and Truth: A revelation of Icelandic magic, its roots and the misconceptions of today Immerse yourself in the world of Norse symbols and discover the true story behind the mysterious signs that are often mistakenly referred to as...
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Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost WorldsFrom Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Gareth E. Rees explores stories of flooded places from the past - and those disappearing before our eyes. The places lost to the eternally shifting boundaries between...
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Supermarine Spitfire Pilot's Flight Operating ManualThe epitome of grace, beauty and design, the Supermarine Spitfire was one of the most deadly fighters of WWII. Produced in huge numbers - over 20,000 were built - the Spitfire was the only fighter airplane in production at the beginning of WWII, that...
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Such Troops as These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall JacksonAcclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a provocative analysis of Stonewall Jackson's military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson's strategies had been adopted. The Civil War pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains one...
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Strength Through Diversity: Harlem Prep and the Rise of MulticulturalismFor nearly seven years, from 1967 to 1974, many hundreds of bright, college-going youth--most of whom had previously been labeled as high school "dropouts"--would proudly celebrate their graduation from Harlem Prep, a small educational experiment that grew to become a nationally renowned, cherished community...
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Stooks on the Horizon: The Story of a Prairie Family HomesteadThis is a story of land, a farm that was not just the giver of life's sustenance but a character in its own right, with its own spirit and vitality found in its black earth, pastures, woods, and sloughs as it moves through seasons.When...
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Stooks on the Horizon: The Story of a Prairie Family HomesteadThis is a story of land, a farm that was not just the giver of life's sustenance but a character in its own right, with its own spirit and vitality found in its black earth, pastures, woods, and sloughs as it moves through seasons.When...
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Stars Over TexasEver since the first Spanish soldiers and priests set foot on land that would be called Texas, a unique history has evolved. That history, as well as the many other dynamic aspects of Texas, is shared in "Stars Over Texas." Classroom-tested for comprehension and...
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Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic PhotographsThe stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years. Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how we perceive sports. Sports through the Lens collects essays by twenty-five historians that consider what...
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Southside: Eufaula's Cotton Mill Village and its People, 1890-1945SOUTHSIDE relates the stories of the cotton mill workers and their families who lived and worked in Eufaula, Alabama, a small town on the Chattahoochee River, from the 1890s through 1945. Utilizing previously unpublished family records, oral histories, and other primary sources, author David...
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Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period TunesIncludes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in...
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest EmancipationA groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the...
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So Long As the World Will Stand: The Story of Kentucky's Polar Bear Expedition Veterans of World War IAt the end of World War I, the United States joined an "Allied Intervention" based at Archangel, Russia, ultimately sending over 6,000 American troops to serve under overall British command. Assigned a mission to protect storehouses of munitions and supplies from German forces, the...
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