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A Storm of Witchcraft
The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into …
Rainbow's End
The Crash of 1929
Av Maury Klein
Häftad, 2003
579 kr
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Few single events have affected business and society in the US so profoundly, and in such a short time. There have also been few books that address both these elements of the crash together, and very little published on the subject in the past decade. In this book, a gifted narrative historian with …
Braddock's Defeat
The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Häftad, 2018
293 kr
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On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege …
Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Häftad, 2007
330 kr
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They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet …
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Av Howard Jones
Häftad, 2019
361 kr
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On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known …
Unconditional
The Japanese Surrender in World War II
Inbunden, 2020
404 kr
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Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific and brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history, one that had cost the lives of millions. …
Lincoln's Last Speech
Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
Inbunden, 2015
357 kr
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On April 11, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his final speech to thousands gathered in the rain outside the executive mansion in Washington, D.C. Coming two days after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and a week after the fall of Richmond, the crowd expected a victory oration. Instead, they …
Roosevelt's Second Act
The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War
Av Richard Moe
Häftad, 2015
359 kr
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Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award, U.S. History category"In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it."--David McCulloughOn August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and …
Lincoln's Last Speech
Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
Häftad, 2017
298 kr
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What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given to thousands gathered …
American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Häftad, 2018
326 kr
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In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic …
Crossroads of Freedom
Antietam
Inbunden, 2002
519 kr
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The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history, and the turning point of the whole Civil War. At the point where Confederate troops invaded Maryland, poised to take Washington, the morale of the Union was at an all time low. It had suffered a series of defeats, it seemed that …
Washington's Crossing
Inbunden, 2004
458 kr
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Six months after Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. George Washington lost 90 percent of his army, and was driven across the Delaware River. Panic …
The Dogs of War
1861
Inbunden, 2011
241 kr
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In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this …
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Inbunden, 2006
424 kr
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Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the …
Washington's Crossing
Häftad, 2006
312 kr
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Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George …
The GI Bill
The New Deal for Veterans
Av Glenn Altschuler, Stuart Blumin
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill.In a …
Adams vs. Jefferson
The Tumultuous Election of 1800
Av John Ferling
Häftad, 2005
393 kr
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It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the …
Sailing East
The Empress of China and the New Nation
Inbunden, 2099
286 kr
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The 1784 voyage of the Empress of China, the first American trade ship to China, marked a critical moment in the economic, cultural and diplomatic development of the United States. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the American economy was still reeling, and the government struggled to …
Storm over Texas
The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
Av Silbey
Häftad, 2007
351 kr
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In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in A Fierce Political Storm, the battle over Texas marked the crucial …
The Flight of the Century
Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Inbunden, 2010
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394 kr
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to …
The Scratch of a Pen
1763 and the Transformation of North America
Häftad, 2007
266 kr
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In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt …
The Compleat Victory
Saratoga and the American Revolution
Inbunden, 2021
477 kr
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize & Winner of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2024 NASDR Excellence in American History Book Award.In the late summer and fall …
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Häftad, 2008
266 kr
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Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the …
He Has the People
Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
Inbunden, 2026
332 kr
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A gripping and granular look at how Abraham Lincoln got elected the 16th president of the United States.James McPherson calls the election of 1860 "undeniably the most important--and pivotal--in all of American history." The nation was not merely divided over the issue of slavery; the opposing …
As If an Enemy's Country
The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
357 kr
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In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 …
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
Av McMillen
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that …
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Av Howard Jones
Inbunden, 2017
461 kr
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On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known …
The Battle of Midway
Inbunden, 2012
385 kr
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on …
Into the Bright Sunshine
Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2023
430 kr
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From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century.During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered …
The Louisiana Purchase
The Grand Bargain and the Making of America
Inbunden, 2026
333 kr
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A true pivotal moment in American history, the Louisiana Purchase redefined the boundaries of the United States and recharted the course of its history. The story behind it transcends borders The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleonic France in 1803, paying--so the story …
