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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of California Press: March 2006

Seller ID: 301574

ISBN: 0520245563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five compelling historic photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is an elegant and powerful comparison that challenges our preconceptions about t...
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The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West

By: Achenbach, Joel

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 2005

Seller ID: 377402

ISBN: 0743263006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would fall apart, and that the "West," beyond the Appalachian mountains, would become a breakaway republic. So he came up with an ambitious scheme: He would transform the Potomac River into the nation's premier commercial artery, binding East and West, bolstering domestic trade, and staving off disunion. This was no armchair ...
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Annals of America 25 Volumes Bicentennial Edition

By: Adler, Mortimer J

Price: $200.00

Publisher: ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA INC: January 1976

Seller ID: 286184

ISBN: B000UDYE0Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

By: Alexander, Adele Logan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: July 2000

Seller ID: 273107

ISBN: 0679758712

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.

Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground.

From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to th...
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Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History

By: Allen, Thomas B.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: N/A: May 2008

Seller ID: 264024

ISBN: 1426202229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky and little-known truths behind state secrets and clandestine operations. Each of seven chapters centers on one particular theme: secrets of war, the art of the double cross, spy vs. spy, espion...
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Narratives of Barbary Captivity

By: Allison, Robert J.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lakeside/Donnelley, .: January 2007

Seller ID: 316768

ISBN: B001C2DQIS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 343196

ISBN: 0743203178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.

The U.S. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Cent...
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Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: LSU Press: April 1996

Seller ID: 289525

ISBN: 0807120715

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has been cast by most historians since Appomattox. In Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, originally published in 1962, Stephen Ambrose challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure.

Ambrose argues persuasively that Halleck has been greatly underrated as a war theorist because ...
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2002

Seller ID: 299680

ISBN: 0743202759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In "To America," Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled our history and made the United States a model for the world.

Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, as well as his own early biases, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic ...
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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2003

Seller ID: 365850

ISBN: 0743252128

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians.

Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and celebrates Lincoln and Roosevelt. He recounts Andrew Jackson's stunning defeat of a superior British force in the battle of New Orleans with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He brings to l...
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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 378543

ISBN: 0743203178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The U.S. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Cent...
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By: Andersen, Kurt

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: June 2018

Seller ID: 303418

ISBN: 0812978900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."--Lawrence O'Donnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today--this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through--is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, mag...
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The United States and Britain in Prophecy

By: Armstrong, Herbert W.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Worldwide Church of God: January 1980

Seller ID: 290283

ISBN: B001PNRYIW

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

By: Arndt, Richard T.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.: February 2007

Seller ID: 378782

ISBN: 1597970042

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

During the last five decades, U.S. cultural diplomacy programs have withered because of politics and accidents of history that have subordinated cultural diplomacy to public relations campaigning, now called "public diplomacy." With anti-Americanism on the rise worldwide, cultural diplomacy should become an immediate priority, but politicians continue to ignore this relatively inexpensive, age-old tool for promoting understanding among nations. Richard Arndt probes the history of American cultural diplomacy to demonstrate its valuable past contributions and to make a plea for reviving it for t...
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Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events

By: Aron, Paul

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mjf: January 1997

Seller ID: 337158

ISBN: 1567316352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 347069

ISBN: 1560254084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the sam...
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 257933

ISBN: 1560254084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

By: Asch, Chris Myers,Musgrove, George Derek

Price: $14.95

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: November 2017

Seller ID: 316773

ISBN: 1469635860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washing...
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1001 Events That Made America: A Patriot's Handbook

By: Axelrod Ph.D., Alan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic: February 2006

Seller ID: 346580

ISBN: 0792253078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For some, patriotism means flags and parades, for others it's "My country right or wrong." But it's much more than that, and as Alan Axelrod observes in this revealing review of our history, true patriotism is built on a bedrock of understanding--who we are as individuals and as a nation, how our ideals and our democracy have evolved, and what it really means to be an American. It's a challenge that calls for an open mind and a clear perspective on the people, events, and issues that shaped our society--and that's just what 1001 Events That Made America provides.

This handy, inf...
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That's Not in My American History Book

By: Ayres, Thomas

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing: January 2000

Seller ID: 359463

ISBN: 0965191184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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