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The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke CanoeIn 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans and the Ohio from Pittsburg to St. Louis. Streckfus built the sternwheeler...
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The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third ReichExamines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust. The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands...
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Handbook of Digital Public HistoryThis handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in digital public history. Individual studies by internationally renowned public historians, digital humanists, and digital historians elucidate central issues in the field and present a critical account of the major public...
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The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War IIAcclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life a flawed and troubled FDR struggling to manage World War II. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan and his various attempts...
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ViktoriaBerlin, Germany Two loves rule Viktoria Jochum-Kraus's life. One is the Hotel Quadriga, built by her father, opened on the day she was born and, in January 1933, the most luxurious hotel in Berlin. The other is her son, Stefan. Only Viktoria knows that...
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We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammed Ali and George HarrisonGeorge Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book...
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Kennan: A Life Between WorldsThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of...
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Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial ControlAmerican households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation...
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A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost"There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one...
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The History of the American Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris (1815-1980)Nestled in the heart of Paris, the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity today stands as one of the great buildings of this ancient city. The history of the church itself presents a rich portrait of lively men and women who made it their...
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Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar's revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare....
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Aircraft Carriers, Volume 2: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, 1946-2006In the post-1945 era, the aircraft carrier has remained a valued weapon despite the development of nuclear weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, and highly capable submarines. At times, as in the early days of the Korean and Vietnam Wars and in the Falklands conflict,...
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Timberline Tailings: Tales Of Colorado'S Ghost Towns And Mining Camps"Timberline Tailings is a follow-up volume which the author published in 1977, after years of receiving letters from people who related their own stories, directions and data about Colorado mining camps after reading Stampede to Timberline. - Sn3 ModelerAuthor: Muriel Sibell WollePublisher: Ohio University...
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Twenty-Five Years Among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier MemoirA Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many...
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Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and IdeologyThe first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and ancestries-from Cuban American, Spanish American, and Mexican American segments to the under-studied Afro-Latino experience-Latina/os and World War II probes the controversial aspects of Latina/o soldiering and...
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Georgia A Political History Since IndependenceGeorgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in...
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The Lie That Will Not Die: The Protocols of the Elders of ZionOf all the libels that have served as a means of incitement of hate against Jews, and as intellectual justification of anti-Semitism, the myth of the so-called 'Jewish Conspiracy' to gain domination of the whole world, as embodied in the forged Protocols of the...
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Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865-1891"The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that's the way we go," runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. "Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!" The last three words of that lyric...
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The Popular Frontier, 4: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Transnational Mass CultureWhen William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill's Wild West popularized...
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Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian ViewsThe Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866--during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)--a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine...
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