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A teacher and minister, Thomas Bog Slade, was a prominent advocate for education regardless of gender or class in nineteenth-century Georgia, altering the lives of many and the future of the state. ……続きを見る

Cape May began as Cape May Island, where families journeyed to enjoy wide white beaches and gentle surf during the early nineteenth century. With the advent of steamships and railroads, the quiet vi……続きを見る

The story of Charm City on stage. Baltimore's dynamic theatrical tradition had hard-scrabble beginnings in the eighteenth century. The popularity of the theater only grew, continuing to the vaudevil……続きを見る

Encounters with Wolfman and Goatman. An Air National Guard captain who tragically lost his life in pursuit of a peculiar UFO. The Goblin Incident of 1955. Hauntings at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Span……続きを見る

In January 1863 the Union War Department authorized the creation of "a special corps" composed of "persons of African descent"ーthe 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. Robert Go……続きを見る

The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Y……続きを見る

*** EBOOK EXCLUSIVE *** BOOK 1: Spectacular Wickedness From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sex……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

When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children’s nurse,……続きを見る

Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to ……続きを見る

By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politi……続きを見る

Details the Continental Congress’s transformation from diplomatic assembly to revolutionary leadership, overcoming crises to unite a fledgling nation. Beginning as a convention of delegates groping ……続きを見る

Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became syno……続きを見る

In the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and democracy. With peace efforts at a standstill, the N……続きを見る

In this lively and insightful memoir Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last half century. During the late sixties and early sevent……続きを見る

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Som……続きを見る

In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County……続きを見る

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Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production. Although today’s titans of philanthropy proclaim more loudly their desire to transform ……続きを見る

«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurg……続きを見る

The incredible, untold true story of the 1952 Dallas Texansーthe most dysfunctional team in the craziest season in NFL history. Rattlesnakes on the practice field, barroom brawls between teammates, ……続きを見る

In "Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation," readers are invited to explore a rich tapestry of themes focusing on the complex and dynamic process of nation-building. The collection traverses a ran……続きを見る

From the construction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the fierce battles over the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, Robert Moses's impact on New York City is both monumental and controversial……続きを見る

In A Short History of the United States, National Book Award winner Robert V. Remini offers a much-needed, concise history of our country. This accessible and lively volume contains the essential fa……続きを見る

The revolution in military recruitment advertising to people of color and women played an essential role in making the US military one of the most diverse institutions in the United States. Starting……続きを見る

From a National Book Award winner: " A Short History of the United States may be brief, but it is wise, eloquent, and authoritative." ーJon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestsel……続きを見る

This handbook provides the reader with an historical and contemporary overview of the service by women in all branches of the U.S. military, tracing the causes and effects of evolving policies, issu……続きを見る

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller In this celebration of faith and freedom, Fox News Co-Host Emily Compagno shares powerful first-person accounts and true stories of courage that show the prof……続きを見る

"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states a……続きを見る

The roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding,……続きを見る