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In dealing with the common experience of women in modern society, this book provides a deeper insight into European women at work, at home, at leisure and in their political and educational function……続きを見る

The bloodiest day in the history of the United States took place on the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On September 17, 1862, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia fought Ge……続きを見る

On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of t……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall - though second cousins - were opposites. Jefferson believed in states' rights - that the colonies that ratified the Constitution did so as sovereign states. He wa……続きを見る

After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure……続きを見る

Follow a barge of Ore from the mines to Boonton New Jersey in the mid 19th century, with glimpses of the tow boat life and the New Jersey wilds, into the hands of the nail makers, with their furnac……続きを見る

Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of India……続きを見る

Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.Discusses the legendary deaths of Wild Bill, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and Butch Cassidy.Discusses the myths and legends surrounding their……続きを見る

Stonewall Jackson needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous generals of the Civil War, revered throughout the South for his extremely successful military skill. At the same time, Ja……続きを見る

In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political f……続きを見る

As a young boy Arundel C. Hull became fascinated with newly developed wet-plate photography. He apprenticed in a St. Paul Minnesota gallery then at age 17 opened his own studio in St Cloud. After th……続きを見る

In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life……続きを見る

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is on……続きを見る

The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz’s contemporary times. I……続きを見る

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award F……続きを見る

Upon its initial publication in 1973 this was the first textbook to present a unified view and comprehensive treatment of the economic development of Europe from a continental rather than a British ……続きを見る

When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slave……続きを見る

First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file……続きを見る

In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in a……続きを見る

Written in the mid nineteenth century, Early Aeronautics tells the story of the very beginning of flight – parachutes and hot air balloons in their earliest incarnations. Includes original illustrat……続きを見る

 A Brief look at the campaign that pushed Harrison into his presidency.続きを見る

In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 180……続きを見る

A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electr……続きを見る

The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politicsーonly to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors James A. Garfield was one of the Republica……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1845 ー SPEECHES OF SENATOR BENTON AND REPORT OF CAPT. FRÉMONT ー……続きを見る

Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early……続きを見る

Afin de couper la route des Indes à l'Angleterre, l'expédition d'Egypte, qui débuta en 1798, fut un tournant décisif dans la carrière de Napoléon Bonaparte, après ses succès en Italie et avant de de……続きを見る

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office Andrew Johnson never expected to be pr……続きを見る

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundam……続きを見る

The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific This edition features • illustrati……続きを見る