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A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
“As is well known, Pete is an outstanding storyteller, and this book is no exception." —Claire Strom, Journal of Southern History In addition to c...
Beats in South Texas
The sometimes raunchy, often legally dubious New York and Mexican exploits of William S Burroughs, one of the godfathers of the "Beat" generation, are...
Creating the New Age of Print
The new biography of the publisher and bookseller who premiered the work of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson deftly integrates Dodsley's life story w...
Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement
New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city’s unions have...
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A History of Trade Politics in America
The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economi...
Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather con...
Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Ca...
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 ...
An American Life
A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless...
Stay on the cutting edge of today’s most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakel’s Integrative M...
How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology
It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating ...
A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
"Remember, you are not going out there to start a war," Rear Admiral Frank Johnson reminded Commander Pete Bucher just prior to the maiden voyage of t...
As a long-standing, reliable resource Drugs & Society, Fifteenth Edition continues to captivate and inform students by taking a multidisciplinary appr...
Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War
Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines t...
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...
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
Supported by The Walter and May Reuther Memorial Fund Previously published by Basic Books as The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the...
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...
Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood
Hollywood is often thought of—and certainly by Hollywood itself—as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Righ...
International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
America's empire expanded dramatically following the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, ...
Gateway to a Continent
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily...
A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50,000) in Every Department of Science and Literature with the Dates of the First and Last Editions ...
Alice Beck Kehoe offers introductory students a method of evaluating and assessing claims about the past in this reader-friendly, concise text, using ...
Being the First Supplement of the Best Books; a Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books [about 50,000] in Every Department of Science, Art and Literature, with the Dates of the First and Last Editions and the Price, Size and Publisher's Name of Each Book
How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how t...
Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brot...
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...
Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical hom...
Comprising Author and Title Catalogue, Subject Catalogue, and Subject Index
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican ur...
A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam
The U.S. Armed Forces started integrating its services in 1948, and with that push, more African Americans started rising through the ranks to become ...
A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone f...
Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres
Vol. 2 includes "The poet Shelley--his unpublished work, T̀he wandering Jew'" (p. 43-45, [57]-60)...
Intellectual History for Complicated Times
American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, th...
Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration
Washington’s Government shows how George Washington’s administration—the subject of remarkably little previous study—was both more dynamic and...
Creating a Chicago Landmark
"Upon opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millennium Park was hailed as one of the world's most important millennium projects. Timothy Gilfoyle's biog...
Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age
Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking worl...