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Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, docume……続きを見る

One of MacLean's 25 Most Important Books of the Last 25 Years One of CBC's 30 Books On the Indigenous Experience in North America Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvat……続きを見る

The inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the last great decipherment of an ancient script. It will fascinate anyone interested in decipherment and puzzles as wel……続きを見る

When the Camp Fire erupted in Northern California, it became one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. In the chaos, a school bus full of students, teachers, and townspeople found themselves t……続きを見る

The United States of America has undeniably attained the status of the world's leading superpower, oftentimes dictating the narrative of the progress of modern society. And just like any other natio……続きを見る

The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But……続きを見る

In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured th……続きを見る

In "Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology," John D. Baldwin embarks on an intricate exploration of prehistoric Native American cultures through a scholarly synthesis of archaeological fi……続きを見る

Did you know that Kentucky had the only American politician who was assassinated and then became governor? William Goebel, master of machine politics and even greater master of making enemies, was i……続きを見る

This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a……続きを見る

Leading historians and archaeologists offer a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly entangled worlds that spanned the globe between 600 and 1350 CE. The period between the seventh and fourt……続きを見る

“Threshold to Valley Forge adds an important, untold chapter to Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary War history. Through extensive research, Vance illuminates how six days in Gulph Mills shaped the Contine……続きを見る

"The Real Widow Maker" is a composition of short stories highlighting some of America's worst mining tragedies, including disasters at the Sago, Crandall Canyon, and Upper Big Branch mines. The book……続きを見る

The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of America’s n……続きを見る

A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina. Finalist of the George C. Rogers Jr Award by the South Carolina Historical Society In 170……続きを見る

The main themes of this second book in The Age of Nixon Series are that President Nixon well understood the importance of the Supreme Court and that his efforts to change the Court's policy preferen……続きを見る

In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the “Paris of South America”ーBuenos Aires. There, with few connections, little……続きを見る

This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that shows how pol……続きを見る

This concise and cogent history of the Mexico/U.S. border conflict analyzes the acts that led to the current U.S. policy and its effects on immigration. Although immigration and the U.S./Mexico bord……続きを見る

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the ge……続きを見る

A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian **“**American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarc……続きを見る

This book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the sho……続きを見る

Antebellum Missouri’s location at the intersection of North, South, and West makes it a location that allows one to examine regionalism in the United States in one location since Missouri contained ……続きを見る

Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the passage of……続きを見る

This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people an……続きを見る

"... an excellent guide to logic and credibility for all who are curious about this complex and urgent subject." Booklist Starred Review America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like tod……続きを見る

Zelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a ……続きを見る

After the 14th Amendment forced a dual citizenship on those who accept federal benefits, the United States Supreme Court determined in 1875 that: "The citizen cannot complain, because he has volunta……続きを見る

Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. In this path-breaking book, Woodruff D. ……続きを見る

Although Roosevelt had no single plan to alter Congress's role, the incremental changes adopted during the New Deal transformed Congress. Examining the immediate reactions of groups in Congress and ……続きを見る