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A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis “A magisterial book…A searing history.” —Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the...
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Basic Books
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2020-04-14
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Bodies That Work describes the redefinition of the invisible, fragmented, and commodified African American female body. In Progressive America, black women began to use their bodies in new ways and ventured into professions in which they had typically not been...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-07
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On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-01
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The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, came at the cost of everyday Angelenos Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-03-24
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A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a...
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Basic Books
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2020-03-24
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Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-23
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**Winner of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins’ Award for Best Book of Nonfiction**One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-17
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Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called "lazy," "feeble," "pusillanimous," and more. Our leaders have been derided as "ignoramuses," "idiots," "morons," and "fatheads," and have been compared to all manner...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-11
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American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class, race, and gender within the United States, the application of this line of work...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-06
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Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-03-04
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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The 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-03-03
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The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic textThe History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-28
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Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story ofMartha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-20
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'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on...
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Penguin
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2019-12-19
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The definitive history of American xenophobia "A sweeping record of xenophobia in the U.S., highlighting the different ways minority groups have been humiliated, discriminated against and even deported."—TimeThe United States is known as a nation...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-11-26
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The fully-revised second edition of the bestselling textbook—an original interpretation of the entire span of California historyThe rich history of California can best be told through its connection with the Pacific Basin. From the geological origins of the land and its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-05
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In 1910, Crystal Eastman was one of the most conspicuous progressive reformers in America. By the 1920s, her ardent suffragism, insistent anti-militarism, gregarious internationalism, and uncompromising feminism branded her "the most dangerous woman in America" and led...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-01
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An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynastyJohn and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams...
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Basic Books
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2019-10-29
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.
Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-23
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond. "Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-10-22
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