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  • The Chicago Race Riots

    July, 1919

    de Carl Sandburg, Ralph McGill ...
    This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919.In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those ... Leer más

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  • Downtown

    My Manhattan

    de Pete Hamill ...
    In this "beautifully written, sharply observed, and heartfelt" guide to his hometown ( New York Times), legendary New York City journalist Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves.Walking the Manhattan streets he loves, from Times Square to the island's southern tip, Pete Hamill combines a moving memoir of his own days and nights in new York with a lively and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • My Life as an Indian

    The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet

    de J. W. Schultz ...
    A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.First published in 1907, My Life as an Indian is the memoir of J. W. Schultz’s life as a young white man among the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory. Inspired by the journals of Lewis and Clark and George Catlin’s depictions of Indian life in his paintings, Schultz journeyed to the American ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry

    de Joseph Barry ...
    Series series Civil War Classics
    To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.The story of John Brown's Raid is one of tremendous import to Civil War Historians. This chronicle of the famous abolitionist's raid on a federal armory—and his ... Leer más

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  • In Search of the Promised Land

    A Slave Family in the Old South

    de John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Embattled Dreams

    California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

    de Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Bombs in the Backyard

    Atomic Testing and American Politics

    de A. Constandina Titus ...
    Series series Nevada Studies in History and Pol Sci
    On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the continued viability of that site for weapons testing. Titus has updated her now-classic study of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • THE FALL OF RICHMOND

    de John Leyburn ...
    Contemporaneous essay by a resident describing the fall of the city. ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of Kinzua

    The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II

    de Laurence M. Hauptman ...
    Series series The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
    The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman offers both a policy study, detailing how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Religion in the Oval Office

    The Religious Lives of American Presidents

    de Gary Scott Smith ...
    In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents. Now, in Religion in the Oval Office, Smith takes on eleven more of our nation's most ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Littsie of Cincinnati

    de Jinny Powers Berten, Norah Holt ...
    Series series Littsie of Cincinnati
    Littsie O’Donnell, daughter of Irish immigrants, tells the story of growing up in colorful, dynamic early Cincinnati. When the cholera epidemic of 1832 devastates her family, she responds to the tragedy with bravery and determination. Her survival is assured when such prominent citizens as Daniel Drake, Anne Bell Bailey, Salmon Chase, Nicholas Longworth, and Frances Trollope help her. Littsie’s ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Arkansas Slave Narratives

    de Work Projects Administration ...
    Series series Slave Narratives
    This book contains the complete collection of all 716 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Arkansas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD