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Lawman: Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912, theHarry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, and sleuth - was among the West's most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco's foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this gripping biography, John Boessenecker...
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Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great AwakeningIn Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues that during this time of religious ferment, religious...
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Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth CenturyChanges to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how...
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Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930sDuring the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexican community. Laws forbidding employment of Mexicans were accompanied by the hue and cry to "get rid of the Mexicans!" The...
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The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg ' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the...
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The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990sCatherine Baker offers an up-to-date, balanced and concise introductory account of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. The volume incorporates the latest research, showing how the state of the field has evolved and guides students through the existing literature, topics and...
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Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events...
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Orozco: The Life and Death of a Mexican RevolutionaryOn August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five "horse thieves." One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco's death proved as controversial as his storied life,...
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Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade PressA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business--a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle...
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Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual CultureOn two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of these cataclysmic bombings draws near, American and Japanese citizens are seeking new ways to memorialize these events for...
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Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in OklahomaIn the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966). With Jacobson's instruction and friendship, the Kiowa Six, as they are now known, ignited a spectacular movement in...
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Delano: The Story of the California Grape StrikeIn September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American politics. The strike also catapulted...
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In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire Volume 17In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan's colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before World War II. The...
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Approaches to Auschwitz, Revised Edition: The Holocaust and Its LegacyDistinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on...
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As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold: The Civil War Letters of Ohio Surgeon William S. NewtonWilliam S. Newton (1823-1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but also spent a few months as acting surgeon with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry (US). Toward the end of the war, he was promoted to surgeon...
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The Presidency and the American State: Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft AdministrationsAuthor: Stephen J. RockwellPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780813950082
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Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female AthleteSkimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated's treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine's founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which Sports Illustrated-arguably the leading sports publication in postwar America-engaged with the social and...
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Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War EraHow did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite-to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in...
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The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at ChattanoogaHow Grant secured a Tennessee victory and a promotion Union soldiers in the Army of the Cumberland, who were trapped and facing starvation or surrender in the fall of 1863, saw the arrival of Major General Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee as an impetus...
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Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental GridlockIn this lively analysis, Daniel Wirls examines the Senate in relation to our other institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the "world's greatest deliberative body" in maintaining white supremacy in America and undermining effective government, from...
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