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13 HOURS is the true account of the events of 11 September 2012, when terrorists attacked a US State Compound and a nearby CIA station in Libya, one of the most dangerous corners of the globe. On th……続きを見る

Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue fr……続きを見る

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a p……続きを見る

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook ……続きを見る

This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential wingives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see wh……続きを見る

**A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadershipーfrom the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.** While history has been kind to the Am……続きを見る

Chosen by WWII History magazine as one of the Best Books of the Year. In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, the small, illequipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the sha……続きを見る

American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. ……続きを見る

In 2012–2013, one of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, Advance Publications, determined its main product was no longer newspapers but news, and switched from daily print publication of The Times-Pi……続きを見る

Historic Woodlawn Cemetery and Arboretum, founded in 1876, has provided a final resting place for thousands of individuals. The story of the cemetery and arboretum provides an in-depth look at Toled……続きを見る

On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsu……続きを見る

This collection of classic Jack London Klondyke stories includes the following titles: The God of His Fathers, The Great Interrogation, Which Make Men Remember and The Man with the Gash Jan, among o……続きを見る

Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, Dav……続きを見る

The definitive travel reference for America's most famousーand infamousーCivil War battle sites: a tribute to the war's 150th anniversary (2011–2015) With The Big Book of Civil War Sites, history-fo……続きを見る

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern citiesーAtlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miam……続きを見る

How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbetーauthor of Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North Americaーlooks to the relics of a region to connect the p……続きを見る

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselv……続きを見る

Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this……続きを見る

The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie……続きを見る

This is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It i……続きを見る

Example in this ebook Fort Garland, July 29th, 1860. Arrived here yesterday with my company, Company F of the U. S. 10th Infantry. Our outfit just limped in from a 640 mile march from Camp Floyd, Ut……続きを見る

Israel Putnam (January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790) was an American army general and Freemason, popularly known as "Old Put," who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) dur……続きを見る

This book is an economic history of Texas at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1875, Texas was an agrarian state with limited industry. A generation later, agriculture was heavily commercialized……続きを見る

In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding……続きを見る

During his thirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted signif……続きを見る

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explore……続きを見る

Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated……続きを見る

Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions toward the neighbor’s sister. He joined the Texas Ra……続きを見る

Table of Contents: Foreword, Tatcho Mindiola Introduction, Arnoldo De León Beyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul Hart The Mexican Revolution’s Impact on Tejano Comm……続きを見る

After two decades of searching for La Salle’s lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty b……続きを見る