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The Life and Times of James Forrestal
A haunting portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the mid-twentieth century, this biography takes a penetrating look at Ja...
Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston
Critical Acclaim for Secret Weapons of World War II "Breuer has produced yet another collection of rip-roaring tales. . . . A delightful addition to t...
Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia
The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of res...
Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country
Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral tradition...
The Art and Science of Singing
About the Book Melodic Sculpturing is intended to provide a comprehensive, developmental approach to vocal instruction for the teacher and for a serio...
Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II
For Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II, unprecedented new employment opportunities contrasted sharply with continuing disc...
Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth centur...
Race and Redemption in the New South
C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from...
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The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This second volume prov...
A History of Privacy in Modern America
A Washington Post Book of the Year Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “A mas...
The American Soldier in World War I
The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key ...
Twentieth-century Prophets Speak to the New Millennium
In this book, G. McLeod Bryan gives firsthand accounts of his interactions with five of the most important prophetic voices of the twentieth century: ...
Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory
Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political ...
The Life and Times of Inez Milholland
Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for...
Energy Markets and Political Strategies
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the ...
Literary Discussion and Analytical Psychology
C. G. Jung believed that popular fiction often conveyed unvarnished psychological truths. In this volume, Matthew A. Fike skillfully analyzes the nove...
A study of the roots and legacy of German Idealist philosophy for trinitarian theology. Dale M. Schlitt presents a study of trinitarian thought as it ...
A Monthly Review of Current Literature
Training, Flying, and Fighting the 1941 to 1945 New Guinea War
An aged and glossy leather briefcase was discovered when our family house was cleaned out and sold. We came to learn that my father had meticulously c...
Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic att...
Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
A chilling account of the tradeoff we are willing to make between interactive media technologies and the power of others to watch over--and control--u...
Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth an...
The Story of Winnifred Eaton
In 1901, Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalism experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the n...
Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and forme...
"The Band That Made Radio Famous"
Carleton A. Coon, Sr., and Hoe L. Sanders formed the Coon-Sanders Orchestra in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. Three years later, under the name "Night...
Detroit's American Indian Community
Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many N...
The Life of Washington Irving
Washington Irving-author, ambassador, and Manhattanite-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are well known. Acclaimed his...
The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands
Mormons first came to Mexico as soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later as missionaries, refugees, and settlers. Just South of Zion assembl...
An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surrounding ...