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The American Army, 1898โ1941
In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later...
A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
โAs is well known, Pete is an outstanding storyteller, and this book is no exception." โClaire Strom, Journal of Southern History In addition to c...
The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970
The struggles and victories of the UAW form an important chapter in the story of American democracy. American Vanguard is the first and only history o...
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Gettysburg: Regimental Leadership and Command
Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth article...
This in-depth investigation of Peoples Temple and its tragic end at Jonestown corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of the group and places its i...
Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order
Discusses the contemporary role of nuclear weapons in international relations...
Pearl Harbor in American Memory
December 7, 1941โthe date of Japanโs surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harborโis "a date which will live" in American history and memor...
Disasters in Western Canada
The stories told in this collection, though tragic for many, illustrate the steadfast determination and courage of people in the face of misfortune an...
Become Acquainted With Joe Hill, A True American Rebel Who Fought For A Vision of Heaven On Earth. The Definitive Study of Joe Hill, Labor Martyr, Pro...
The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of...
Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920
Those individuals remembered as the "founders" of cities were men, but as Elizabeth York Enstam shows, it was women who played a major role in creatin...
Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede
After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, wh...
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress....
The Story of Autism
The stunning history of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of F...
1964: January-June
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)...
Third series
Containing authentic biographies of New Yorkers who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement including sketc...
Locking Horns Over National Park Use
The first scholarly study of winter use in any national park examines the history of the conflict between the National Park Service and various intere...
How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
Winner, 2024 Book Award, Society for History in the Federal Government In 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining ves...
From Victory to Collapse
A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy...
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assu...
Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultura...
The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women...
Sports and Race in Twentieth-Century America
This insightful study offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of champion boxer Joe Louis. The remarkable success and global popularity of t...
His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone
Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, Joh...
Memories of an American Antislavery Family
The author raises questions about why the fervent commitment to the emancipation of African Americans was nearly forgotten by his family, exploring th...
Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received...
A Memoir of Submarine Chasing and Mine Sweeping in World War II
This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones serve...
The book is intended for scholars and students of politics, sociology, and media studies....
Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University
Provides personality profiles, historical essays, and first-person reminiscences of the history of the University of Texas. Topics include recurring a...
Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation
The author explores how the US government has underestimated the damage caused by nuclear weapons, leading it to build far more - and far more destruc...
The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Second Edition
Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tli...
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO wa...
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workersโ rights to decent pay or better ...
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