EDA - United States 1

Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take ca……続きを見る

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration ca……続きを見る

“Every page gave me chills. This is a must-read book for the times in which we are living” Lisa López Levers, Professor Emerita, Duquesne University Appalachia’s misery is caused by generations of c……続きを見る

On November 20, 1941, a twenty-three-year-old woman was brought to George Washington University Hospital, strapped to an operating table, and kept conscious throughout the procedure that would end h……続きを見る

In the decades following the American Civil War, a new aristocracy rose not from ancient bloodlines but from iron rails and coal smoke. The railroad barons of the Gilded Age ー Vanderbilt, Gould, St……続きを見る

Civil wars are rarely started by moderates. The American conflict of 1861–1865 was shaped not by the exhausted compromisers who spent decades trying to hold the republic together, but by the men on ……続きを見る

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region’s Indigenous peop……続きを見る

A definitive technical guide to the F-105 Thunderchief, the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War. Designed to deliver nuclear weapons at low altitude and then fight its way bac……続きを見る

La politique étrangère américaine, telle que nous l’avons vécue depuis huit décennies, est révolue. On pouvait croire et espérer que Trump 1.0 constituerait une parenthèse dans l’histoire américaine……続きを見る

Dive into the Early Life of Thomas Jefferson: Uncover the Childhood, Influences, and Journey to Adulthood of America's Founding Father. Experience a unique journey into the early life of Thomas Jeff……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE ANNE B. AND JAMES B. MCMILLAN PRIZE A powerful collection of firsthand stories from the Tuskegee Institute High School Class of 1964ーstudents who came of age in the crucible of the Ci……続きを見る

The old country stores along the back roads of rural Mississippi are the treasures that remain of a bygone era. Travel back to the Mississippi of yesteryear and hear of the deadly can of molasses th……続きを見る

What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A Black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations bega……続きを見る

Descubra os segredos ocultos por trás do primeiro encontro entre dois mundos! "O descobrimento do Brasil por Pedro Álvares Cabral" de Baldaque da Silva é uma obra que transporta o leitor para o cora……続きを見る

Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basinーa new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her h……続きを見る

Established by Congress as part of the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) designated parts of seven southern states for economic rehabilitation through various means, including flood con……続きを見る

The Sebago Lakes Region in southwestern Maine is one of the Pine Tree State's most historic. The lake--along with the Presumpscot and Songo Rivers, Brady Pond and Long Lake--was a major transportati……続きを見る

Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a '10,000-mile bomber' with heavy defensive arma……続きを見る

Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Bo……続きを見る

In a nation built by immigrants, what happens when citizenship is no longer permanent? USA Citizenship Denaturalization: The Rise of Denaturalization in Modern America is a powerful, deeply research……続きを見る

Granville Davisson Hall's Daughter of the Elm is a stirring romantic novel set in the foothills and valleys of western Virginia in the years just before the American Civil War. Written with a nostal……続きを見る

When Fred Risser retired from the Wisconsin Senate in 2021, his sixty-four years in state government made him the longest serving legislator in US history. Now, in this candid and illuminating autob……続きを見る

In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest and advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional c……続きを見る

"Artfully blending the conventional with the controversial" (Wall Street Journal), a preeminent constitutional scholar explains how American geography affects constitutional law From Kennebunkport t……続きを見る

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An infamo……続きを見る

OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, mus……続きを見る

This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ende……続きを見る

Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by……続きを見る

Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-ye……続きを見る

America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidaysーChristmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgivingーcame to be what they are today, seasonal an……続きを見る