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The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned. The South was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil reconstruction. The Union, though preserved, would not easily be healed. Starting with...
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Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) BurkeWritten by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's great naval heroes. Popularly referred to as 31-Knot Burke, Admiral Arleigh Burke fought savage battles at sea and won every decoration...
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Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester CarA lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen. Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a...
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Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam WarPraised and condemned for its aggressive coverage of the Vietnam War, the American press has been both commended for breaking public support and bringing the war to an end and accused of misrepresenting the nature and progress of the war. While in-depth combat coverage...
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North to Canada: Men and Women Against the Vietnam WarMarch 29, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. It hardly seems possible that it has been nearly 50 years since the Vietnam War was at its zenith. In 1998 author James L. Dickerson went to Canada to...
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The Day Before Yesterday: Reconsidering America's Past, Rediscovering the PresentIn The Day Before Yesterday, acclaimed journalist Michael Elliott says, Americans whine. They live in the most prosperous society the world has ever seen...And yet they are convinced that their life is miserable. Michael Elliot looks to America's past for solutions to current problems,...
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American DollarMost Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history--the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who...
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr, tells the extraordinary story of how, in America's centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and Black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety...
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great DepressionThe twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio...
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Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia PlantationOne hundred years in the life of a founding father's 5,000 acre "retreat""Poplar Forest embodies the culmination of Jefferson's vision of the American agricultural ideal. This highly readable volume introduces us to the people, objects, and landscapes of Poplar Forest in the tumultuous period...
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The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier legends, but only here is the extraordinary episode chronicled in full in all of its intricate ad amazing detail. Author/historian...
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A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont and the Claiming of the American WestIn A Newer World, David Roberts serves as a guide through John C. Frémont's and Kit Carson's adventures through unknown American territory to achieve manifest destiny. Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Frémont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the...
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The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the MississippiFolklore, archaeological data, and first-person narratives contrast the wanton destruction of the eastern buffalo with the spirit and heroism of the early frontier.Author: Ted Franklin BeluePublisher: Stackpole BooksPublished: 04/15/2022Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55dISBN: 9780811771160
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Conversations with KennedyBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They also had a more professional relationship governed by Bradlee's job covering the capital for Newsweek. Bradlee...
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The Killing of Crazy Horse Lib/EAuthor: Thomas PowersPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 11/09/2010Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200103805About the AuthorPowers, Thomas: - Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA; Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb; Thinking About the Next War;...
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The Imam, the Pasha and the Englishman: The Ordeal of Abd Allah Ibn Saud, Cairo 1818The dramatic encounter between Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam 'Abd Allah, in Cairo in November 1818 marks the symbolic end of the First Saudi State. 'Abd Allah was in transit to public execution in Istanbul, the...
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Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and PlaceOver the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How...
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American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote DisinformationDonald Jeffries takes another deep dive down the historical rabbit holes with American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote Disinformation. You will discover how cancel culture was born during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. And how our interventionist foreign policy was established...
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Western Warfare, 1775-1882Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, Western Warfare, 1775-1882 offers students an unrivaled account of civil and international conflicts, integrating both naval and land warfare. It covers military capability as well as conflict; social and political contexts as well as weaponry; and tactics...
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Abstracts of Wills, Inventories and Accounts of Patrick County, Virginia, 1791-1823.By: Lela C. Adams, Pub. 1972, Reprinted 2019, 110 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-356-9. Patrick county was created in 1791 from Henry county. It is the parent county to: Carroll, Grayson, and Franklin. Wills are wonderful source for the researcher due to many...
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