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A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the United States in 1803. But for the citizens of Ste. G……続きを見る

Esta obra aborda duas formas de representação da história de Malcolm Little (1925–1965) ou Al Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz, conhecido como Malcolm X. O autor compara duas biografias do ativista – o livro A……続きを見る

Tom Leforge was a legend in his time. Interpreter and scout, he lived among the Crow Indians, as a Crow, for decades. If not for a broken collar bone, Leforge would have been with the six Crow scout……続きを見る

Get enchanted with Civil Rights Movement history and its remarkable events. Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the histo……続きを見る

"The Socialists of Shoe City" is a meticulously researched and compelling narrative that traces the history of municipal socialism in Haverhill, Massachusetts, from the late 1800s to 1912. Through v……続きを見る

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation……続きを見る

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of ……続きを見る

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the worldーabout 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million peopleーwhile national spending on prisons has ……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly u……続きを見る

Our traditional image of Chicagoーas a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its endsーis such a powerful shaper of the city's iden……続きを見る

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 n……続きを見る

Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a dril……続きを見る

Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the l……続きを見る

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal……続きを見る

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half o……続きを見る

During the Sixties the nation turned its eyes to San Francisco as the city's police force clashed with movements for free speech, civil rights, and sexual liberation. These conflicts on the street f……続きを見る

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make." Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders." Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle," while New Yorke……続きを見る

First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient ov……続きを見る

Unveiling the Woman Behind the Icon: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Before she became entwined with a legacy, Carolyn Bessette was a force all her own. This captivating biography delves beyond the headlin……続きを見る

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopmentーvia the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformationーhas been perhaps ……続きを見る

The nation's top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy's future In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting ……続きを見る

A wealthy textile titan from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frank Masland Jr. was an ardent political conservative and an equally fervent conservationist who was well known and highly respected in the mid-……続きを見る

Street Talk, (The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City), is a collection of columns and stories written in the early 1980s by author and investigative journalist Dan Luzadder, a columnist……続きを見る

World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victor……続きを見る

The "Loss of Common Sense in Modern American Culture" by Tom S Pane is a thought provoking exploration of how historical common sense, as exemplified by the beliefs and philosophies of America's Fou……続きを見る

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In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representation at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was mo……続きを見る

On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood when a lone gunman entered the building ……続きを見る

Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linch……続きを見る

Title: Bob Graham: A Beacon of Integrity Author: Millard Foulk Step into the world of Bob Graham, a towering figure in American politics whose commitment to integrity transformed the landscape of pu……続きを見る