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Civil Air Patrol Uniforms and Insignia Since 1941, 7th EditionThis book covers the history of the grade insignia worn by officers, enlisted personnel and cadets of the Civil Air Patrol (U.S. Air Force Auxiliary), uniform change to uniform change since its founding in 1941. The text describes the changes and innovations throughout history...
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Democracy's Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970sFrom its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule....
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Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom StruggleWhen women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the...
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A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century AmericaWhen the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical tool, photography...
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Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War IIAnne M. Blankenship's study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Americans maintained their traditional identities as Buddhists, a sizeable minority identified as Christian, and a number...
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Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil WarStandard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when...
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The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural DissidentsRestricted to the shorthand of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues...
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Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished local governance in the 1870s, they set the precedent for southern disfranchisement. In the aftermath of this process,...
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Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Twentieth-Century Peru and Latin AmericaLike Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Peruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895-1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Inigo Garcia-Bryce's biography of Haya chronicles his dramatic political odyssey as founder of the highly influential American...
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The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska ActPushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the...
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Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern EvangelicalismAmerican evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became...
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History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970sDuring the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and...
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Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized,...
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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and EmancipationFor enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy,...
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The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century,...
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The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum AmericaFocusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant...
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John Brown Still Lives!: America's Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and ChangeFrom his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change....
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating...
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Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in...
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The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught with ConsequencesBecause of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincoln's place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is probably the most studied in our history. But perhaps for the same reasons, historians have focused on the contest of Lincoln versus Stephen...
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