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In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

An insider’s view of the U.S. government’s response to the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, as recounted by the people who made the key decisions I...

Vintage softcover WWIICategories: History United StatesGeneral

Details the ideological, political and economic causes of the War of IndependenceCategories: History United StatesGeneral

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth preside...

A storytelling approach that engages students with features to help them master core content, think critically, and make connections. The engaging narrativ...

Maude Travers gulped for air. Why had this man struck her? Why was she on this kitchen floor in this ramshackle tenement? Blinking hard she was instantly si...

myer's Story Will Stand As The Best That Has Yet Been Written On The Alamo. . . . It's A Classic.-boston PostCategories: History United StatesState & Lo...

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredi...

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "th...

John Wheeler (1591-1670), Son Of Dominick Wheeler And Mercy Jelly, Married Agnes Yeoman. They Emigrated From England To Massachusetts In 1634. Descendants A...

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In this #1 New York Times Bestseller, the iconic a...

as Meaningful Today As It Was When Sigurd F. Olson Wrote It, the Singing Wilderness Is An Essential Antidote To The Trials Of Modern Life. This Unique Volu...

Conflict And Contradiction In The Imagery Of The Dying Republic -- Rival Images: Octavian, Antony, And The Struggle For Sole Power -- The Great Turning Poin...

Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first explorers to the present day.Categories: HistoryWorld

greeks Arrived In America With The Expectation That Freedom Would Permit Their Families To Thrive And Be Successful. With Hard Work, Belief In The Orthodox ...

This Book Publishes, For The First Time In Full, The Two Most Revealing Of Mark Twain's Private Writings. Here He Turns His Mind To The Daily Life He Shared...

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's atten...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the ag...

By Studying The Ways In Which American Industrial Workers Mobilized Concerted Action In Their Own Interest, The Author Focuses On The Workplace Itself, Exam...

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary det...

The Challenge Of Rethinking History Education Is A Must Read For Anyone Looking For A Guide To Both The Theory And Practice Of What It Means To Teach Histor...

The building of the Panama Canal was one of the most grandiose, dramatic, and sweeping adventures of all time. Spanning nearly half a century, from its be...

Although Most Of Us Think Of History--and Learn It--as A Conglomeration Of Facts, Dates, And Key Figures, For Professional Historians It Is A Way Of Knowing...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

The Book Has Ten Chapters: The First Is An Analysis Of The Build-up To The War, The Next Seven Chapters Cover The War Itself And The Final Chapter Examines ...

Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of...

Open Virgil's Barbecue Road Trip Cookbook and you'll find a winning mix of barbecue and grilling recipes plus perfect summer sides for quick weekday dinner...

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how t...

Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable–including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destru...

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-sca...

Just Two Months Into His Presidency, Ronald Reagan Lay Near Death After A Gunman's Bullet Came Within Inches Of His Heart. His Recovery Was Nothing Short Of...

The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by emp...

a People And A Nation Is A Best-selling Text Offering A Spirited Narrative That Tells The Stories Of All People In The United States. The Authors? Attenti...

Masterful, Ambitious, And Groundbreaking, This Is A Major New History Of Our Country By One Of Our Most Respected Thinkers And Historians -- A Book Every Ca...

Obama Tells The Story Of His Improbable Odyssey From Young Man Searching For His Identity To Leader Of The Free World, Describing In Strikingly Personal Det...

First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensi...

the Life Of Harry S. Truman Is One Of The Greatest Of American Stories, Filled With Vivid Characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Be...

Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few sinc...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Stands Astride American History Like A Colossus, Having Pulled The Nation Out Of The Great Depression And Led It To Victory In The...

The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJe...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

A Dynamic Multivoiced Single-volume History Of Black People In America, Edited By Ibram X. Kendi And Keisha Blain.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences...

In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. Developed during Wor...

No one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich. The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his ...

Surfboards are not mere tools for wave-riding. To those passionate and dedicated about surfing, a board can also be a trusted talisman in perilous waters, ...