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Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South

by Steven Miller

Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South considers the critical role the famous evangelist played in creating the modern American South. Author Steven P. Miller treats Graham as a serious actor and...

The Glasgow Graveyard Guide

by Jimmy Black & Michael TRB Turnbull

In Glasgow, death is always fatal. Students of glasgowness agree that there’s a distinctive Glasgow ‘take’ on mortality. The visitor making the journey through the graveyards of Glasgow will surely become...

1066 The Conquest

by Peter Fieldman

ENGLAND'S DEFINING MOMENT IN HISTORY ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO ON ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DATES IN ENGLISH HISTORY A NORMAN DUKE LED THE LAST INVASION OF ENGLAND TO BECOME KING OF ENGLAND APPOINTED DUKE OF NORMANDYAT...

The Murder of the Century

by Paul Collins

“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond...

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

by Scott Miller

A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY

In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion,...

Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen

by Kevin Fenton

Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that the CIA and NSA repeatedly and deliberately withheld information from the FBI, thereby allowing hijackers...

The English Revolution and Gender

by Ann Hughes

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts...

Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature

by Stephen Fender

Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis...

We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers

by Allen Ruff & Paul Buhle

Featuring a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography of all titles published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, this updated record chronicles the history of the most significant translator, publisher,...

Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

by John Ehle

The fascinating portrayal of the Cherokee nation,  filled with Native American legend, lore, and religion -- a  gripping American drama of power, politics,  betrayal, and ambition.

B & W photographs

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Crawfish Bottom

by Douglas A. Boyd & W. Fitzhugh Brundage

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary...

The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

by Bernard Bailyn

In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the...

One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents

by Richard Shenkman & Kurt Reiger

Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History!

This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt...

A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq

by William Doyle

For six months in 2006, a charismatic young U.S. Army captain and Arab linguist named Travis Patriquin unleashed a diplomatic and cultural charm offensive upon the Sunni Arab sheiks of Anbar province, the heart...

Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces

by Sven Biscop & Jo Coelmont

This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers.

At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU...

The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq

by Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell & Cathryn Quantic Thurston

This report finds parallels in U.S. prisoner and detainee operations in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq: underestimation of the number to be held, hasty scrambling for resources, and inadequate doctrine...

The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War

by David Willman

For the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Willman tells the whole gripping story of the hunt for the anthrax killer who terrorized the country in the dark days that followed the September...

India: A Portrait

by Patrick French

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and...

The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington

by Paul Lockhart

Paul Lockhart combines military and political history to offer a major reassessment of one of the most famous battles in American history.

One hot June afternoon in 1775, on the gentle slopes of a hill near Boston,...

Outpost of Occupation

by Barry Turner

The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler's plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey,...