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1 Brief Shining Momentby William ManchesterISBN 0517612313 (0-517-61231-3)
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After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indianby Herman J. ViolaISBN 0517581086 (0-517-58108-6)
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The Age of the Mogulsby Stewart H. HolbrookISBN 0517556790 (0-517-55679-0)
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America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980by Eric H. MonkkonenISBN 0520069722 (0-520-06972-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957by Joseph R. StarobinISBN 0520027965 (0-520-02796-5)
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The American Jewish Albumby A. SchoenerISBN 0517664674 (0-517-66467-4)
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American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contractby Brook ThomasISBN 0520206479 (0-520-20647-9)
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The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances; Completeby William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse, Hans PrintzISBN 0517665557 (0-517-66555-7)
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The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism As a Problem in Historical Interpretationby Thomas BenderISBN 0520077792 (0-520-07779-2)
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Appraisal Book : Identifying, Understanding, and Valuing Your Treasuresby Emyl JenkinsISBN 0517884348 (0-517-88434-8)
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Womenby Susan FaludiISBN 0517576988 (0-517-57698-8)
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Benjamin Franklin and His Enemiesby Robert MiddlekauffISBN 0520213785 (0-520-21378-5)
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Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolutionby Jerry Stanley, S. BoughtonISBN 0517700972 (0-517-70097-2)
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Boss Ruef's San Francisco the Story of the Unionby W. BeanISBN 0520000943 (0-520-00094-3)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Paul BransomISBN 0517643006 (0-517-64300-6)
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Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vacaby Alvar Nunez Cabeza De VacaISBN 0520070631 (0-520-07063-1)
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In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way, learning their languages and practices and serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight years he finally reached the West, he was not recognized by his compatriots.
In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them, sharing their brutal living conditions and curing their sick, he found himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected.
Cabeza de Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information, with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. López-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition, it promises to become the authoritative English translation.More editions of Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca:
China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930's and 1940'sby Stephen R MacKinnon, Oris FriesenISBN 0520069676 (0-520-06967-6)
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The Comic Book Heroes: From the Silver Age to the Presentby Will Jacobs, Gerard JonesISBN 0517554402 (0-517-55440-2)
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Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraftby Enzo AncelucciISBN 0517664755 (0-517-66475-5)
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517642913 (0-517-64291-3)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Elizabeth Leahy SteinISBN 0520036212 (0-520-03621-2)
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The Creationistsby Ronald L. NumbersISBN 0520083938 (0-520-08393-8)
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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservationby Karl JacobyISBN 0520220277 (0-520-22027-7)
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Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860by Ralph P. Locke, Cyrilla BarrISBN 0520083954 (0-520-08395-4)
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Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Dealby Devra WeberISBN 0520207106 (0-520-20710-6)
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Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cableby Christopher E. G. BenfeyISBN 0520218183 (0-520-21818-3)
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Documenting America, 1935-1943by Carl Fleischhauer, Beverly W. Brannan, Lawrence W. Levine, Alan TrachtenbergISBN 0520062213 (0-520-06221-3)
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Documenting America takes a fresh look at these remarkable photographs. The book opens with two incisive essays by Lawrence Levine and Alan Trachtenberg that examine issues central to photography and American culture. While Levine explains how the pictures portray the complexity of life in the period, balancing scenes of Depression hard times with images of the pleasures of life, Trachtenberg analyzes the way in which viewers read photographs and the role of the government picture file that stands between the creation of the photographs and their use. Both essayists raise important questions about Stryker's grand ambition of a photographic record of America, about the "ways of seeing" that have grown up around the most famous of these photographs, and about the whole enterprise of documentary photography and the conventions of realism.
The images themselves are presented in series selected from groups of pictures created by single photographers. A documentary photographer often makes dozens of exposures to portray different elements of the subject, experiment with camera angles, and cover the stages of an event or steps of a process. By studying these pictures in series, we come closer to the photographer working in the field. We see a tenant farming community in Gee's Bend, Georgia, the activities of the Salvation Army in San Francisco, and the hubbub and commotion that filled Chicago's Union Railway Station in 1943. Texts accompanying each of the book's fifteen series describe the circumstances that gave rise to the creation of the pictures and discuss the relation between government policy and the subjects of the photographs. The nearly three hundred images included vividly portray America in the last bitter years of the Great Depression and the first years of the Second World War.More editions of Documenting America, 1935-1943:
Emyl Jenkins' Appraisal Book: Identifying, Understanding, and Valuing Your Treasuresby Emyl JenkinsISBN 0517570866 (0-517-57086-6)
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Ford: The Men and the Machineby Robert LaceyISBN 0517635046 (0-517-63504-6)
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"Richly anecdotal and wonderfully readable . . . irresistable." The Washington Post Book World [via]More editions of Ford: The Men and the Machine:
From This Moment on: America in 1940by Jeffrey HartISBN 051755741X (0-517-55741-X)
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeareby Howard StauntonISBN 0517623803 (0-517-62380-3)
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God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Storyby Jill WattsISBN 0520201728 (0-520-20172-8)
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Habits of the Heartby Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520053885 (0-520-05388-5)
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Lifeby Robert N. Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonISBN 0520205685 (0-520-20568-5)
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Hearts of Fire : Great Women of Ameircan Lore and Legendby Kemp Plummer BattleISBN 0517703971 (0-517-70397-1)
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History of the Sierra Nevadaby F. P. FarquharISBN 0520015517 (0-520-01551-7)
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Honkyby Dalton ConleyISBN 0520215869 (0-520-21586-9)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0517626330 (0-517-62633-0)
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I'Ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggleby Charles M. PayneISBN 0520207068 (0-520-20706-8)
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Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves; they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement.More editions of I'Ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle:
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The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840by Richard HofstadterISBN 0520017544 (0-520-01754-4)
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruinby Gray A. BrechinISBN 0520215680 (0-520-21568-0)
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The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Californiaby Alexander SaxtonISBN 0520029054 (0-520-02905-4)
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North Americaby Theodora KroeberISBN 0520006747 (0-520-00674-7)
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The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world.
Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.More editions of Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America:
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Just Schoolsby David L. KirpISBN 0520050843 (0-520-05084-3)
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Last Flightby A. EarhartISBN 0517567946 (0-517-56794-6)
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Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe V. Wadeby David J. GarrowISBN 0520213025 (0-520-21302-5)
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bombby Robert Serber, Richard RhodesISBN 0520075765 (0-520-07576-5)
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Melodrama Unveiled: American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850by David GrimstedISBN 0520059964 (0-520-05996-4)
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Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Dayby H. StoweISBN 051810026X (0-518-10026-X)
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : The Civil War in American Artby Harold Holzer, Neely, Mark E., Jr.ISBN 0517584484 (0-517-58448-4)
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Money & Morals in America: A Historyby Patricia O'TooleISBN 0517586932 (0-517-58693-2)
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More Perfect Union Aby William PetersISBN 0517564505 (0-517-56450-5)
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Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.Cby Jeffrey F. MeyerISBN 0520214811 (0-520-21481-1)
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New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Churchby R. Stephen WarnerISBN 0520072049 (0-520-07204-9)
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OSS:the Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agencyby R. Harris SmithISBN 0520020235 (0-520-02023-5)
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--Washington Post Book World
In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--Americas first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William ( Wild Bill ) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Author Richard Harris Smith, himself an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception as a spin-off of the Office of the Coordinator for Information to its demise under Harry Truman and reconfiguration as the CIA.
During his tenure, Donovan oversaw a chaotic cast of some ten thousand agents drawn from the most conservative financial scions to the countrys most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was considered a success. But the success turned into a flop as the Japanese discovered what had happened, and hastily
changed a code that had already been decrypted by the U.S. Navy.
Colorful personalities and truly priceless anecdotes abound in what may
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A.P. Giannini: Banker of Americaby Felice A. BonadioISBN 0520082494 (0-520-08249-4)
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The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860-1906by Terrence J. McDonaldISBN 0520054946 (0-520-05494-6)
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The Pattons : A Personal History of an American Familyby Robert H. PattonISBN 0517590689 (0-517-59068-9)
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Pearl Harbor : Final Judgementby Henry C. Clausen, Bruce LeeISBN 0517586444 (0-517-58644-4)
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Pedro Moya De Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571-1591by Stafford PooleISBN 0520055519 (0-520-05551-9)
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A Picture Tour of the Smithsonianby Anne Ficklen, Susan BatesISBN 0517626098 (0-517-62609-8)
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The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1800-1920by Martin J. SchieslISBN 0520040864 (0-520-04086-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Tasteby James D. HartISBN 0520005384 (0-520-00538-4)
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Prophetic Woman: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New Englandby Amy Schrager LangISBN 0520066081 (0-520-06608-1)
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Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985by Steven P. ErieISBN 0520071832 (0-520-07183-2)
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Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfrontby Howard KimeldorfISBN 0520078861 (0-520-07886-1)
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Retelling U.S. Religious Historyby Thomas A. TweedISBN 0520205707 (0-520-20570-7)
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Rock and Roll: An Unruly Historyby Robert PalmerISBN 0517700506 (0-517-70050-6)
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Rock & Roll: An Unruly History is the companion guide to PBS's ten-part series on rock that aired in September. When PBS first conceived the Rock & Roll series, they sought out Robert Palmer, an acclaimed rock historian, writer, and the New York Times's first full-time pop music critic, to help assemble the names, events, and landmarks that are the terrain of rock history. Palmer acted as the chief advisor to the series and it was this association that inspired him to write ROCK & ROLL: An Unruly History.
ROCK & ROLL traces the course of rock's rich history through Palmer's own perceptions and experiences. Incorporating countless interviews with rock personalities that he has conducted over the last three decades, ROCK & ROLL follows rock's road of creative flashpoints, but diverges, too, to explore the fundamental traditions that have helped define both the music and its culture. With a corresponding chapter to each part in the series, ROCK & ROLL shows how people, places, and events from rock "gods" to little known session musicians, from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to the far reaches of West Africa shaped and defined the music's most important epochs. Yet, to give rock the more in-depth analysis that it deserves, Palmer has written three additional essays "I Put a Spell on You," "Delinquents of Heaven, Hoodlums from Hell," and "The Church of the Sonic Guitar" which respectively explore the rudiments of rhythm, the ritual of rebellion, and the story of the "six-string" in rock.
In ROCK & ROLL, Robert Palmer traces rock's ongoing evolution, showing how its many styles and early influences from blues and gospel to reggae, punk, and rap overlap and distinguish themselves from one another. With more than one hundred and fifty illustrations, ROCK & ROLL is the best of the two primary approaches to rock and roll history the history of innovative flashpoints, and the history of an ongoing tradition. As told through the senses and lifelong experiences of one of rock's preeminent critics, ROCK & ROLL is the most insightful and intelligent history of rock ever written. [via]More editions of Rock and Roll: An Unruly History:
Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S. China Relations, 1989-2000by David M. LamptonISBN 0520215907 (0-520-21590-7)
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The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brownby Edward J. RenehanISBN 051759028X (0-517-59028-X)
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Stealing Jesus : How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianityby Bruce BawerISBN 0517706822 (0-517-70682-2)
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Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad And The Development Of The American West, 1850-1930by Richard J. OrsiISBN 0520200195 (0-520-20019-5)
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Tenderby Mark ChildressISBN 0517576031 (0-517-57603-1)
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A Time to Standby W. LordISBN 0517642999 (0-517-64299-9)
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To Gettysburg and Beyond : The Parallel Lives of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Edward Porterby Michael GolayISBN 0517592851 (0-517-59285-1)
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To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and Americaby Tara BahrampourISBN 0520223543 (0-520-22354-3)
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The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American Cityby Charles Tilly, Sam Bass WarnerISBN 0520202244 (0-520-20224-4)
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The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnamby Tom WellsISBN 0520083679 (0-520-08367-9)
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The Warrior Generals : Combat Leadership in the Civil Warby Thomas B. BuellISBN 0517595710 (0-517-59571-0)
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While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathyby Arthur D. MorseISBN 0517621797 (0-517-62179-7)
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White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Cultureby Neil FoleyISBN 0520207246 (0-520-20724-6)
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angelesby Catherine MulhollandISBN 0520217241 (0-520-21724-1)
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Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920sby Kathleen M. BleeISBN 0520078764 (0-520-07876-4)
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Women of the Westby Cathy Luchetti, Carol OlwellISBN 0517591626 (0-517-59162-6)
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Working People of Californiaby Daniel CornfordISBN 0520088654 (0-520-08865-4)
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World of George Washingtonby Richard KetchumISBN 051755349X (0-517-55349-X)
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