Inc. - 20th Century 1

The history of moonshining is a long one, and no one tells it better than the men who once made a living from it deep in the heart of Appalachia. Originally published in 1972, “Moonshining as a Fine……続きを見る

The 20th Century was a time of astonishing transformation, from horse-drawn buggies to space exploration, from the discovery of penicillin to cloning, from the advent of jazz to Woodstock, from segr……続きを見る

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply pers……続きを見る

“As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I’ve read.”ーBryan Burrough, New York Times Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and de……続きを見る

Painstakingly researched by an authority on the history of the Secret Service and based on primary, firsthand accounts from more than 80 former agents, White House aides, and family members, this is……続きを見る

“Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America.” ーJim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and ……続きを見る

Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop a……続きを見る

Bletchley Park was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’s “Enigma” code in which its most important military communications were couched.……続きを見る

Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty ……続きを見る

The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. B……続きを見る

In How to Analyze People on Sight, published in 1921, the Benedicts divide humanity into five types, all of which are full of the most blatant stereotypes known to man. Fat people enjoy life! Cereb……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Prohibition en moins d’une heure ! Sujet épineux aux États-Unis depuis l’époque coloniale, la consommation d’alcool devient le centre de toutes les a……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le procès de Nuremberg en moins d’une heure ! Novembre 1945. Un procès unique en son genre s’ouvre à Nuremberg. Son objectif ? Juger 24 dirigeants nazis……続きを見る

Gold Star Mothers are women whose sons or daughters have been killed in American military service. Our Sons, Our Heroes is a book about Gold Star Mothers who lost a son in the Vietnam War. Their sto……続きを見る

For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading particip……続きを見る

15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! 15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comp……続きを見る

This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period, how, where, and under whose terms the avant-garde in Britain woul……続きを見る

With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotligh……続きを見る

We remember Thomas Alva Edison as the craggy, rumpled inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph - a prodigy, the affable "Wizard of Menlo Park." But he also was a visionary entrepreneur who chan……続きを見る

The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing powe……続きを見る

In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textil……続きを見る

From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and eco……続きを見る

In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theologica……続きを見る

New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dyn……続きを見る

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This boo……続きを見る

This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The……続きを見る

History is dramaticーand the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history f……続きを見る

History is dramaticーand the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Progressivism, the Great De……続きを見る

In a post–Cold War world, the Iridium satellite network revealed a new age of globalization. Winner of the William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award by the IEEE In June 1990, ……続きを見る

America's oldest law enforcement agency, the United States Secret Service, has never been exposed like this before. The Secret Service has made many headlines through the decades, especially in the ……続きを見る