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Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar AmericaThe Chicago Tribune headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. But, as Andrew Busch reveals, there is much more to this story than the well-worn image of a victorious and beaming President Harry Truman parading the...
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Give Me Back My MountainsThis story is set in Transylvania, Hungary, a region governed by Hungarian kings since the 10th Century. Transylvania became a pawn of world political maneuvers at the end of World War I with the Treaty of Trianon signed in Paris, 1920. A bitter tug-of-war...
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You Can't WinYou Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. The book tells of Black's experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the western United States and Canada, with the majority...
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On to ChicagoBedlam erupted among 1,500 ecstatic supporters when Bobby and Ethel Kennedy appeared. Looking tanned and rested, he stepped to the rostrum and pulled from his breast pocket an envelope on which he had jotted some notes. Giving a brief speech intentionally so he could...
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The Santa Fe Ring Versus Billy The Kid: The Making of an American MonsterThe Santa Fe Ring versus Billy the Kid: The Making of an American Monster, by Gale Cooper (888 pages in hardcover and paperback) exposes New Mexico Territory's Santa Fe Ring and the rebellions against its tyranny. The Ring was a form of organized crime...
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An American Missionary: A Record Of The Work Of Rev. William H. Judge, S.J. (1907)""An American Missionary: A Record Of The Work Of Rev. William H. Judge, S.J."" is a book written by Charles J. Judge and published in 1907. The book is a biography of Rev. William H. Judge, a Jesuit missionary who dedicated his life to...
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The Naval War of 1812: Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War With Great BritRoosevelt's detailed account of the War of 1812 and the role of the American navy in it is a classic of American military history. Mixing stirring battlefield accounts with insightful analysis of strategy and politics, it is a must-read for buffs of naval history...
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Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and FreedomWould there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if her grandmother, a free black woman named Molly...
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Great Lakes: Collisions, Wrecks and Disasters: Ships 400 to 998 Feet (LIB): Collisions, Wrecks and Disasters: Ships 400 to 998 Feet"Having spent lots of time in the Chicago area, I'm a big fan of the Great Lakes. These inland seas have a turbulent history and are site of many shipwrecks. This guide to the collisions, wrecks and disasters on the Great Lakes is the...
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Patriotism Is a Catholic Virtue: Irish-American Catholics and the Church in the Era of the Great War, 1900-1918Most of the literature concerning the momentous challenges facing Irish American Catholics in the first two decades of the twentieth century pay but scant attention to the role played in addressing them by the American Church. Among the myriad political, social, cultural and economic...
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Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and JapanThe creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of...
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American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland TrailIn popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on...
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Veiled Leadership: Katharine Drexel, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and Race RelationsOn the rainy morning of October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Mother Katharine Drexel. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, Drexel bucked society and formed the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Her compelling personal story has excited...
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Melody in the Dark: British Musical Films, 1946-1972A comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The Golden Disc, and Oliver! Acting as a sequel to Adrian Wright's Cheer Up! British Musical Films, 1929-1945 (Boydell, 2020), Melody in the Dark...
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Sin in the Sixties: Catholics and Confession, 1955-1975Confession reached its peak attendance in the early 1950s, but by the end of the Second Vatican Council, the popularity of the sacrament plummeted. While this decline is often noted by historians, theologians, priests, and laity alike-all eager to provide possible explanations-little attention has...
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A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth CenturyLondon in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of rapidly...
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Ripples of Time: Memoir of a Former Black Panther: How Domestic White Terrorism and Policing Has Demonized Dehumanized; Desecrated BLACRipples of Time is Jon-Jamal Turner's story about life as a Panther activist. It is also an unflinching examination of America's history, including how black bodies have been brutalized and policed tracing an unbroken line between the slave era and the present-day conditions. This...
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Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cort s, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of some of the most life-altering events in the story of man. Chipman examines the contributions of Christopher Columbus and Hernando...
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Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a new constellation in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues...
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In Deo Veritas: Fast Play Rules for Exciting Seventeenth Century BattlesIn seventeenth century Europe it must have seemed that there was always a conflict somewhere. This century of battles is the inspiration for these wargames rules.Designed for ease of play, 'In Deo Veritas' offers a player experience based on the commander's problems. The rules...
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