History - United States

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New Hampshire Book of the Dead: Grave...

Roxie Zwicker

New Hampshire's historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invoke fear and superstition among the living, but the dead who rest within them may have m...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Considered a classic of American literature and military autobiography, Grant's memoirs are an honest, clear retelling of the author's growing-up in Ohio, his graduation from West Point, his marriage to Julia Dent, and, most significa...

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Published: Jul 2006

Herbert Hoover in the White House: Th...

Charles Rappleye

"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover's presidency to date" (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperament...

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Published: May 2017

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: T...

Matthew Algeo

From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. Diners, bellhops, and cabbies shoute...

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Published: Apr 2011

Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espio...

Stephen E. Ambrose

Based on privileged access to the president and his private papers, this classic Cold War-era history by bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose gives an inside look at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America's secret ope...

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Published: Jan 2012

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

Paul M. Barrett

Based on fifteen years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as American's gun.  Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Ho...

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Published: Jan 2013

Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Chan...

Edward Behr

"An excellent and honest book."—The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of The Last Emperor comes this rip-roaring history of the government's attempt to end America's love affair with liquor—which fa...

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Published: May 2011

Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the R...

Arnie Bernstein

Imagine a United States where swastikas hang proudly in meeting rooms across the country. Cries of Sieg Heil! resound at rural family retreats. A dictator pontificates at Madison Square Garden to an overflowing crowd for a Nuremberg-s...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible...

Otto L. Bettman

This book explains why the 'good old days' were only good for a priviledged few and why they were unrelentingly hard for most. Sobering, actually. Check it out.

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Published: Oct 1974

Lost Myrtle Beach

Becky Billingsley

Myrtle Beach has long been a favorite vacation spot for families across America, giving parents and children alike a lifetime of memories. The Myrtle Beach Pavilion, considered by many to be the heart of the city since 1908, was demol...

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Published: Jun 2014

Famous Documents and Speeches of the ...

Bob Blaisdell

Essential reading for students of American history and Civil War buffs, this inexpensive volume includes key documents and memorable speeches such as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Lee's 'Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia'; Fre...

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Published: Dec 2006

Closing of the American Mind: How Hig...

Allan Bloom

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a tw...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of t...

Howard Blum

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –ar...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events i...

Daniel J. Boorstin

First Published In 1962, This Wonderfully Provocative Book Introduced The Notion Of 'pseudo-events' -- Events Such As Press Conferences And Presidential Debates, Which Are Manufactured Solely In Order To Be Reported -- And The Contemp...

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Published: Sep 1992

The Most They Ever Had

Rick Bragg

In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seeme...

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Published: Apr 2011

The General vs. the President: MacArt...

H. W. Brands

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the Americ...

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Published: Oct 2017

Rise to Globalism: American Foreign P...

Douglas G. Brinkley

"One of the most lively and provocative interpretive studies of the major events in recent American diplomatic history." -American Historical Review Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of tho...

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Published: Jan 2011

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the W...

Ethan Brown

New York Times Bestseller A Southern Living Book of the Year"Part murder case, part corruption expose, and part Louisiana noir" (New York magazine), Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes invest...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Great Depression: An Interactive ...

Michael Burgan

In the 1930s, Americans faced one of the biggest crises ever to hit the country. During the Great Depression, the stock market crash caused banks to close and many companies to go out of business. Millions of people lost their jobs an...

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Published: Jan 2011

Who Really Runs The World?: The War B...

Thom Burnett

The world is a mess. IIt's constantly at war, things cost too much, and the average person struggles to survive against powers they can barely see, let alone control. It appears so at odds with common sense, in fact, that it begs a fu...

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Published: Apr 2007

1920: The Year That Made the Decade R...

Eric Burns

One of the most dynamic eras in American history―the 1920s―began with this watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow. "The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with a widely app...

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Published: Aug 2016

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Sto...

Gordon H. Chang

"Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad Chinese." -- Peter Cozzens,Wall Street Journal A groundbreaking, breathtak...

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Published: May 2020

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, America...

Adam Cohen

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law ...

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Published: Mar 2017

Presidential Spirits

Dan Coonan

A political Field of Dreams. A moderate US president is struggling to lead amidst the country's dysfunctional polarization when he stumbles upon a centuries-old saloon where he can drink at a nightly party with every former president,...

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Published: Apr 2020

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom:...

William And Ellen Craft

This compelling narrative offers a firsthand account of a couple's remarkable flight from slavery in the antebellum South. William and Ellen Craft devised a daring plan in which the light-skinned wife disguised herself as a man and th...

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Published: Aug 2014

In the Depths of a Coal Mine: With a ...

Stephen Crane

Crane's "In the Depths of a Coal Mine" was originally published in McClure's Magazine, August 1894. S.S. McClure hired Crane, together with illustrator Corwin L. Linson, to write and illustrate a descriptive essay about the ...

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Published: May 2020

Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The S...

Doug Crenshaw

In the spring of 1862, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent landed in Virginia, on the peninsula between the James and York Rivers, and proceeded to march toward Richmond. Between that army and the capital o...

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Published: Nov 2017

Sting of the Bee: A Day-By-Day Accoun...

Charles H. Cressey

Wounded Knee, as it was first reported, and, as you've never read it. A sensational contemporary view of the events surrounding the Sioux outbreak of 1890 and 1891 that violently climaxed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. These articles ...

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Published: Apr 2016

Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Ame...

Roger Daniels

Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japan...

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Published: Oct 2004

BLOODY AUTUMN: The Shenandoah Valley ...

Daniel Davis

Clear out the Shenandoah Valley "clean and clear," Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant ordered, in the late summer of 1864.His man for the job: Major General "Little Phil" Sheridan, the bandy-legged Irishman wh...

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Published: Oct 2013
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