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1831: Year of Eclipseby Louis P. MasurISBN 0809041197 (0-8090-4119-7)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '1831: Year of Eclipse'Book summary:EVERYONE KNEW THAT THE GREAT ECLIPSE of 1831 was coming -- and most Americans feared it. Newspapers and almanacs claimed it would be an unparalleled celestial event, and on February 12 citizen and slave alike, from New England to the South, anxiously gazed heavenward. In this remarkable new book, Louis P. Masur shows why Americans saw the eclipse as a portent of their future. The year 1831 was, for the United States, a crucial time when the nation was no longer a young, uncomplicated republic but, rather, a dynamic and conflicted country inching toward cataclysm. By the year's end, nearly every aspect of its political social and cultural life had undergone profound change. Masur organizes 1831 around the themes that he suggests underlie many of the tumultuous events of the year: slavery (or its abolition); the still unresolved tension between states' rights and national priorities; the competing passions of religion and politics; and the alarming effects of new machinery on Americans' relationship to the land. By the summer of 1831, Nat Turner's rebellion was sparking ever more violent arguments over the future of slavery; Andrew Jackson's administration threatened to unravel; and dissent over the economic future of the country festered. Religious revivalism sweeping the North inspired agitation in the working classes; steamboats, railroads, and mechanized reapers were introduced in the competitive rush for profits; and Jackson's harsh policies toward the Cherokee erased most Indians' last hopes of autonomy. Important visitors -- including Gustave Beaumont and Alexis de Toequeville -- watched the developments closely. Their views on this turbulent year would shape world opinion of the new American nation for generations to come. Masur weaves together these disparate events and shows that they shaped both the strategies by which the nation would survive and the very nature of the American character. His is an important and challenging interpretation of antebellum America. [via]
African America: Portrait of a Peopleby Kenneth EstellISBN 0810394537 (0-8103-9453-7)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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America in Poetryby Charles SullivanISBN 0810918803 (0-8109-1880-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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America in Poetry: With Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Artby Charles SullivanISBN 0810926504 (0-8109-2650-4)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquestby Gregory H. NoblesISBN 0809016028 (0-8090-1602-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest'Book summary:Gregory H. Nobles pulls together the work of many recent historians of the American West in this sensitive and synthesizing study of frontier history in North America. Using the frontier as both a spatial and phenomenological metaphor for the experience of Western expansion, Nobles considers the historical facts of frontier encounters and the frontier as cultural interchange between diverse people. Nobles's narrative begins and ends with the tragic story of the Pequots, from Captain John Mason's cowardly raid on a Pequot camp in 1637 that left more than 300 sleeping Pequots dead to Donald Trump's 1990s lawsuit attempting to deprive the tribe of their gambling license. In the pages of American Frontiers readers will also find details of the French and Indian War, Iroquois involvement in the American Revolution, the California gold rush, Texas independence, the tragedy of Wounded Knee, the resistance of Sitting Bull, and the Ghost Dance movement.
Nobles's book is a good starting point for readers interested in the American West. His bibliographic essay alone, which provides a generous and thorough account of literature on the subject, makes this a useful reference even for accomplished students of the frontier. [via]
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American Image: Photographing One Hundred Fifty Years in the Life of a Nationby Martin W. SandlerISBN 0809243814 (0-8092-4381-4)
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American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898by Eric Foner, Robert McMathISBN 0809077965 (0-8090-7796-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Centuryby John F. KassonISBN 0809001330 (0-8090-0133-0)
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862by Carol SheriffISBN 0809016052 (0-8090-1605-2)
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Battles for Atlantaby Ronald H. BaileyISBN 0809447738 (0-8094-4773-8)
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Battles for Atlanta: Sherman Moves Eastby Time-Life Books, Ronald H. BaileyISBN 080944772X (0-8094-4772-X)
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensusby Rick PerlsteinISBN 0809028581 (0-8090-2858-1)
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The Blockadeby Time-Life EditorsISBN 0809447088 (0-8094-4708-8)
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular Historyby Joy S. KassonISBN 0809032449 (0-8090-3244-9)
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Campaigning With Grantby Horace PorterISBN 0809442035 (0-8094-4203-5)
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlandsby James BrooksISBN 0807853828 (0-8078-5382-8)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare.
Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave trade" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and "communities of interest" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional "war against slavery" brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality and cultural flexibility. [via]
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The Civil War: An Illustrated Guideby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447975 (0-8094-4797-5)
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The Coastal War: Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grandeby Peter M. ChaitinISBN 0809447320 (0-8094-4732-0)
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The Coastal War: Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grandeby Time-Life Books, Peter M. ChaitinISBN 0809447339 (0-8094-4733-9)
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Confederate Ordeal: The Southern Home Frontby Steven A. Channing, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447290 (0-8094-4729-0)
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Confederate Ordeal: The Southern Home Front The Civil Warby Steven A. Channing, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447282 (0-8094-4728-2)
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Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburgby William C. Davis, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447762 (0-8094-4776-2)
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Decoying the Yanks: Jackson's Valley Campaignby Champ ClarkISBN 080944724X (0-8094-4724-X)
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A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burrby Arnold a RogowISBN 0809016214 (0-8090-1621-4)
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The Fight for Chattanooga: Chickamauga to Missionary Ridgeby Jerry KornISBN 0809448165 (0-8094-4816-5)
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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginiaby Woody HoltonISBN 0807847844 (0-8078-4784-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Forward to Richmondby Ronald H. BaileyISBN 0809447207 (0-8094-4720-7)
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Forward to Richmond: McClellan's Peninsular Campaignby Time-Life Books, Ronald H. BaileyISBN 0809447215 (0-8094-4721-5)
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Frontier Women: "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880by Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 080901601X (0-8090-1601-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880by Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 0809001411 (0-8090-0141-1)
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Gettysburg-Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hillby Harry W. PfanzISBN 0807849960 (0-8078-4996-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gettysburg-Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill'Book summary:In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought at Gettysburg on 2 and 3 July 1863.
Pfanz provides detailed tactical accounts of each stage of the contest and explores the interactions between--and decisions made by--generals on both sides. In particular, he illuminates Confederate lieutenant general Richard S. Ewell's controversial decision not to attack Cemetery Hill after the initial southern victory on 1 July. Pfanz also explores other salient features of the fighting, including the Confederate occupation of the town of Gettysburg, the skirmishing in the south end of town and in front of the hills, the use of breastworks on Culp's Hill, and the small but decisive fight between Union cavalry and the Stonewall Brigade. [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby Eric Foner, James Brewer StewartISBN 080901596X (0-8090-1596-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery'Book summary:The abolitionist movement, writes Stewart in this engaging study, grew out of a number of historical conditions in early American society. Fearful of secularism and materialism, and disdainful of the luxurious life of the upper class, evangelical Christians of varying ethnicity banded together to forge a religious revival called the Great Awakening. In the South these evangelicals, especially the Quakers, confronted slave-holding Anglicans. They steadily worked to convert pro-slavery individuals, and they were often successful. By recruiting escaped slaves to speak out publicly against "the peculiar institution," the abolitionists galvanized public opinion outside the South, leading to the sectionalism that would later find its ultimate expression in the Civil War. Stewart's account of the important role that women played in the abolitionist movement is of special interest. [via]
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby James B. StewartISBN 0809001233 (0-8090-0123-3)
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby James Brewer StewartISBN 0809055198 (0-8090-5519-8)
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How the Other Half Livesby Jacob August RiisISBN 0809000121 (0-8090-0012-1)
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Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950by Mark Bradley, John Lewis GaddisISBN 0807848611 (0-8078-4861-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Bradley uses these sources to reveal an imagined America that occupied a central place in Vietnamese political discourse, symbolizing the qualities that revolutionaries believed were critical for reshaping their society. American policymakers, he argues, articulated their own imagined Vietnam, a deprecating vision informed by the conviction that the country should be remade in America's image.
Contrary to other historians, who focus on the Soviet-American rivalry and ignore the policies and perceptions of Vietnamese actors, Bradley contends that the global discourse and practices of colonialism, race, modernism, and postcolonial state-making were profoundly implicated inand ultimately transcendedthe dynamics of the Cold War in shaping Vietnamese-American relations. [via]
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Innumeracyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0809058405 (0-8090-5840-5)
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But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
Journey through a Part of the United States of North America in the Years 1844-1846by Albert C. Koch, John Francis McDermott, Ernst A. StadlerISBN 080930581X (0-8093-0581-X)
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Like a Familyby Mary Murphy, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Lu Ann Jones, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Christopher B. Daly, Michael FrischISBN 0807848794 (0-8078-4879-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like a Family'Book summary:Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. [via]
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The Log of a Cowboyby Andy AdamsISBN 0809436981 (0-8094-3698-1)
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The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indiansby Eric Foner, Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0809015528 (0-8090-1552-8)
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This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.More editions of The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians:
Master Index an Illustrated Guideby Time LifeISBN 0809447967 (0-8094-4796-7)
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The Minutemen and Their Worldby Robert A. GrossISBN 0809001209 (0-8090-0120-9)
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in Americaby Elliott J. GornISBN 0809070944 (0-8090-7094-4)
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Mother Jones was on the brink of old age when she began her public life, and her early years have long been shrouded in obscurity. Elliott J. Gorn has uncovered them here, as he not only interprets her career as an agitator but also looks back at her emigration from Ireland, her work as schoolteacher and dressmaker, the tragic early deaths of her husband and children, and the "lost years" when she faded from view altogether. In so doing, he shows how great world events (the Irish potato famine, the cholera epidemic) affected the course of her life and thus the life of the American labor movement. In short, Gorn makes it clear why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." [via]
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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Authorby Victor S. NavaskyISBN 0809001837 (0-8090-0183-7)
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A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World Historyby Thomas BenderISBN 0809095270 (0-8090-9527-0)
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The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermathby Richard W. MurphyISBN 0809447924 (0-8094-4792-4)
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The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermathby Time-Life Books, Richard W. MurphyISBN 0809447932 (0-8094-4793-2)
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Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolisby Carl AbbottISBN 0807848050 (0-8078-4805-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82by Elizabeth A. FennISBN 080907821X (0-8090-7821-X)
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.
By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay.
The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.More editions of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82:
Rebels Resurgentby Time-Life Books, William K. GoolrickISBN 0809447487 (0-8094-4748-7)
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Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840by Steven C. BullockISBN 080784750X (0-8078-4750-X)
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The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West The Civil Warby David Nevin, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447126 (0-8094-4712-6)
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Sarah Bishopby Scott O'DellISBN 0808557785 (0-8085-5778-5)
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Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Imageby Andrew BursteinISBN 0809085364 (0-8090-8536-4)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image'Book summary:The 1992 publication of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution renewed interest in interpreting the War for Independence as an expression of national rather than regional values. Most of these studies trace the universal desire for republican governance in the 13 colonies to the Enlightenment's valorization of reason and intellect. In Sentimental Democracy, Andrew Burstein argues that this nation's forefathers were not just led by the power of their minds but by the feelings in their hearts.
Americans, according to Burstein, viewed their culture as exceptional because of their susceptibility to emotions. While European politicos coldly manipulated their subjects, Americans recognized both the benefits and temptations that their senses provided them. By the time of the Revolution, patriots such as "the martyr" Joseph Warren demonstrated their commitment to public virtue by exercising sentimental passion while restraining excess emotion. Later, both republicans and federalists defined themselves publicly as individuals moderately appeasing the appetites of democracy. During and after Andrew Jackson's administration, Burstein argues, the virtues of moral restraint were relegated to the domestic sphere, while men exerted their nationalistic sentiments in a vigorous campaign of territorial expansion.
All in all, Burstein sheds new light on the primary documents upon which the political history of this nation rests. His assertion that nationalist intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and J. Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur invested as much faith in human emotion as in reason provocatively revises traditional interpretations surrounding the passionate nature of politics in the Republic's formative years. --John M. Anderson [via]
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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum Americaby Nancy IsenbergISBN 0807847461 (0-8078-4746-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930by Alan TrachtenbergISBN 0809016397 (0-8090-1639-7)
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Shenandoah in Flamesby James StreetISBN 0809447851 (0-8094-4785-1)
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The Shenandoah in Flames: The Valley Campaign of 1864by Thomas A. LewisISBN 0809447843 (0-8094-4784-3)
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragistsby Jean H. BakerISBN 0809087030 (0-8090-8703-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists'Book summary:They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal.[via]
For the first time, the eminent historian Jean H. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their public achievements, presenting these revolutionary women in three dimensions, humanized, and marvelously approachable.More editions of Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists:
The Soldiersby David NevinISBN 0809414635 (0-8094-1463-5)
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Spies, Scouts, and Raidersby William C. DavisISBN 0809447169 (0-8094-4716-9)
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Spies, Scouts, and Raiders: Irregular Operationsby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447134 (0-8094-4713-4)
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The Struggle for Tennessee: Tupelo to Stones Riverby Time-Life Books, James StreetISBN 0809447606 (0-8094-4760-6)
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Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidencyby William P. BundyISBN 0809091518 (0-8090-9151-8)
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Trailblazersby Time-Life Books EditorsISBN 0809414589 (0-8094-1458-9)
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Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Home Frontby Time-Life Books, Donald Dale JacksonISBN 0809447525 (0-8094-4752-5)
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Lifeby Martha SummerhayesISBN 0809439689 (0-8094-3968-9)
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A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairsby Theodore DraperISBN 0809096137 (0-8090-9613-7)
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War on the FrontierISBN 0809447819 (0-8094-4781-9)
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War on the Frontierby Alvin M. JosephyISBN 0809447800 (0-8094-4780-0)
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War on the Mississippi: Grant's Vicksburg Campaignby Jerry Korn, Time-Life BooksISBN 0809447444 (0-8094-4744-4)
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The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950by Jenna W. JoselitISBN 0809015862 (0-8090-1586-2)
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Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950by Jenna Weisman JoselitISBN 0809027577 (0-8090-2757-7)
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