William - Americas 1

This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relatin……続きを見る

Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb u……続きを見る

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Gh……続きを見る

The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author’s own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis. Beginning with the first tentative chemical e……続きを見る

This book is not a conventional biography. Instead, it is a collection of sketches in which an attempt is made to portray the character of Abraham Lincoln as the highest type of the American from se……続きを見る

William H. Prescott (1796-1859) is regarded as not only the first American scientific historian, but also one of the best historians of the nineteenth century. A Massachusetts native, Prescott was e……続きを見る

Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans The student will find scattered throughout a wide range of archæologic literature frequent but casual mention of works of art in shell. Individual uses of shell……続きを見る

Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. T……続きを見る

A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present ur……続きを見る

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream.……続きを見る

In November of 1800 Abigail Adams traveled to Washington D.C. from Boston.  At the time of her visit, Washington D.C. was a symbol of what the young nation hoped to become.  Slavery divide……続きを見る

The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When th……続きを見る

Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses on the acq……続きを見る

Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, howeve……続きを見る

In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana’s changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs take……続きを見る

Technology what is it?  Who were the men behind the technology that changed America?  This short historical serial examines them.続きを見る

Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings o……続きを見る

Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonst……続きを見る

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream.……続きを見る

Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings o……続きを見る

Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonst……続きを見る

No event shaped the twentieth century more than World War II, and no leader shaped the conduct of the war and the formation of the modern world more than President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this ant……続きを見る

This book examines the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Protestant leaders in both nations from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War. Yoo……続きを見る

Ride the trail with William Howard as he tells the story of famous and not-so famous gunfighters of the old American West. Among the gunfighters are the stories of Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickcok, ……続きを見る

The examination of slavery and the rise of the abolitionist movement during the 1780s. Carter uses a historical examination and assessment that is aided through the use of Early American Newspapers,……続きを見る

The early days of Chicago's organized crime began in 1850 with Michael Cassius McDonald as the original crime boss and The Black Hand. "Big Jim" Colosimo, Johnny "The Fox" Torri and Al "Scarface" Ca……続きを見る

Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus per……続きを見る

This critically acclaimed ebook by America's schizoaffective writer Jared William Carter highlights Trump's Sanity Issues, Cloosing the Door on Mexico, Muslim and Jewish Immigrants, Trump Resembles ……続きを見る

A presented parallel short historical work that is richly researched in looking at JFK's Patton Robert McNamara. 続きを見る

The paper industry rejuvenated the American Southーbut took a heavy toll on its land and people. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an ……続きを見る