In May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered “to worship at this national shrine.” He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington, mother of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-08-28

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Embark on a captivating photographic journey beyond Earth, from the dawn of human space exploration, through the untold story of the Mercury and Gemini missions'Wickedly exciting' Tom Hanks'Experience the same incredible awe as we astronauts did on those very first...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2025-08-28

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The culminating volume in the acclaimed Gotham series, Gotham at War delivers an unforgettable portrait of America's greatest city during history's most catastrophic conflict. Gotham at War unveils the history of New York and the Second World War, from isolationism and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-08-27

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER •  NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige. Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2025-08-05

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Go behind the headlines with the gripping new true crime book from a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist, offering unprecedented insight into the 2022 Idaho murders and the subsequent arrest of Bryan Kohberger.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"A...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2025-07-31

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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-07-14

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In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institutions meticulously documented their connections. Whether driven by...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-18

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Vor dem Hintergrund der Biografie Trumps und einer Skizze seines persönlichen Umfeldes wird eine Übersicht der politischen Maßnahmen in den ersten hundert Tagen seit Amtsantritt gegeben: insbesondere auch mit Bezug zur Außen- und Handelspolitik und...

Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-06-16

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From a brilliant cultural historian, a fascinating history of the twentieth century told through the story of design and its utopian promises “Fascinating, rigorously researched.” ―Atlantic A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Design has penetrated every...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-06-03

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In Protestant Relics in Early America, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivated a lively relic culture centered around collecting supernatural...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-30

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*A Guardian Best Biography of the Year*The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographerBorn in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influen­tial, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2025-05-13

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"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two...

Editeur : Da Capo
Parution : 2025-05-13

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A gripping chronicle of the relentless fight for Black educational freedom—and the bold strategies to protect, nourish, and empower Black minds. The Battle for the Black Mind is an explosive historical account of the struggle for...

Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-05-13

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The Midwest region holds a pivotal place in the tapestry of American history.The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History delves into this rich heritage with chapters on topics ranging from the early Native American and French Midwest to the impact of the Northwest...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-09

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Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries defined Black...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-05

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“There is no city like New York and no better tour guide to it than Keith Taillon! I’m a lifelong New Yorker but he has taught me things about each neighborhood and every block I never knew before. Keith brings the ‘city that never sleeps’ alive in a way no one else...

Editeur : Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Parution : 2025-04-17

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An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe. Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-04-11

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Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United States history Looking for the essentials of more than 200 years of United States history? Starting at the early civilizations, U.S. History For Dummies covers the growing pains of a new nation. Brush up on the major...

Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2025-03-20

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An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2025-03-04

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The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-02-17

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