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Allied Special Operations in World War II Burma
In 1943 the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would become the Air Commandos, a unit that marked a milestone in tactical operations in support of Brit...
Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century Am...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
An updated edition of the classic study that took “an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery” (The Washington...
The Hudson Valley's Ross Brothers and the Union's Fight for Emancipation
Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley....
A Political History
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Winner of the PROSE Award in United States History Hagley Prize in Business ...
Texans in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign
"The Finishing Stroke shows Texas warriors at their best, from Sul Ross's Texas Brigade at the head of Forrest's cavalry to Matt Ector's Texans cracki...
A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepen...
Race and Shame in America
As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz exp...
Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers Today we associate liberal thought ...
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A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama
How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and w...
An Encyclopedia of Activists, Subversives, and Prisoners of Conscience [2 volumes]
Anarchists, civil rights advocates, dissidents, and political pundits have all played key roles in shaping our nation. Examining modern-day individual...
A Study of Bureaucratic Nationalism
It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apt...
The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’...
A Cuban-American Journey
American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award in Local History - Honorable Mention Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for ...
A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Pacific Coast and the Western States
Richmond, Virginia and Its People
A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to ...
What sort of a life do you make for yourself when there is no focus? How does your life pan out as you ride the vicissitudes of a dog eat dog, cut thr...
A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution. Th...
A Biography
Traces the life and political career of San Francisco's first African American mayor...
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A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions....
London, Provinces, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Abroad, Navy, Army & Air Force
Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led ...