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Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth...
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Reunion: Hatfields and Mccoys"Reunion" is the story of one man's journey to discover his family heritage in the shadow of America's most famous feud. The American saga of the Hatfield-McCoy feud continues to intrigue people fascinated by even the smallest details of the story. People are drawn...
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Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban FrontierTraditionally the American frontier was the home of the self-sufficient individualist, a rural environment where settlers lived without the comforts of society. But from the first gold rush into the Rockies in 1859 until the 1890s, when most gold fields had been played out,...
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WW II POWs in America and Abroad: Astounding Facts about the Imprisonment of Military and Civilians During the WarLittle has been written about the six million people interned in prison camps around the world between 1939 and 1945. We are aware that the Allies and the Axis powers held one another's armed forces as military prisoners of war (POWs). The Axis powers...
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The Rise and Fall of the Sugar King: A History of Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1844-1909The history of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and the rise of the American sugar industry are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them. The Havemeyer family built the world's largest sugar refinery that would be renamed Domino, but also constructed a sugar empire that...
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21 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century ArchiveThe nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if belied in reality by violence and hypocrisy. The writers of...
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The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000Most history tells the story of the past through anecdotes, but anecdotes do not always present an accurate or complete picture. There is another way to look at history. The rise of widespread, systematic data collection in the twentieth century-the first measured century-allows us...
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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920sLynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age. When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary...
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Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful ServantThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall...
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Lucky-Anil Nayar's Story: A Portrait of a Legendary Squash ChampionIn London in 1965, Anil Nayar made history by becoming the first Indian to gain world champion status in his sport when he captured the Drysdale Cup, the prize awarded to the winner of the event then regarded as the world championship tournament for...
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Conversations in the Spirit: Lex Hixon's Wbai 'in the Spirit' Interviews: A Chronicle of the Seventies Spiritual RevolutionArmed with a generous heart, subtle mind, and a PhD in comparative religion from Columbia, Lex Hixon, as host for WBAI's In the Spirit, was able to interview and skillfully probe the leading spiritual lights of the seventies and beyond. Twenty-five of those interviews,...
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1956: The Year Australia Welcomed the WorldAn engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia's history. This book debunks one of the hardiest clich s in Australian history: that the 1950s was a dull decade, when the nation seemed only interested in a quiet life, a cup of tea, and...
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Murder by GaslightMURDER BY GASLIGHT THE AUTHENTICATED HISTORY OF H.H. HOLMES, HIS INSIDIOUS MURDER CASTLE, AND THE HORRORS OF GASLIGHT ERA CHICAGO Chicago during the Gaslight Era was a place that embodied both the elegance of America's Gilded Age and the vice, crime and sin of...
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Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine WarsStrikes and union battles occurred throughout American industry during the early part of the twentieth century, but none of these stories compare to the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1912 and 1921. These two workers' rebellions quickly drew national attention to an area known...
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Eusapia Paladino: Materialisations and Intellergetic Phenomena in Physical MediumshipThe golden age of psychical research produced no greater experimental superstar than the Italian peasant Eusapia Paladino, whose purported physical phenomena--movement of distant objects, levitations, materialisations of human forms--were studied in controlled settings (in the light ) by eminent scientists throughout Europe in the...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French ColonialismThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were...
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US Navy Protected Cruisers 1883-1918Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy. After the American Civil War, the powerful US Navy was allowed to decay into utter decrepitude, and was becoming a security liability....
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Welsh in the Old West: IllustratedOver thirty biographies of known and lesser known emigrants from Wales and Welsh descendants whose lives helped shape the American West as we know it today. Fully illustrated by select artists from Wales and the US depicting these pioneers, outlaws, inventors, military leaders, miners,...
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green GenerationRome's genial new book . . . brings to life another era. --Nicholas Lemann, The New YorkerThe first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows...
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That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace: The Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina, 1933-1942In this landmark study, the establishment of the CCC in North Carolina is discussed, camp life is recounted in great detail, and the accomplishments of the Corps are examined. Separate chapters present the involvement of African Americans and the Cherokee in North Carolina's CCC...
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