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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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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

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 1997

Seller ID: 262565

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississip...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 1997

Seller ID: 270768

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 1997

Seller ID: 271711

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2003

Seller ID: 355589

ISBN: 0743252128

Binding: Trade Paperback

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

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 365826

ISBN: 0743203178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The U.S. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Cent...
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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.

Americans at War

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Berkley Trade: October 1998

Seller ID: 365851

ISBN: 0425165108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Collected here for the first time are fifteen essays that span over 100 years of American history--and the remarkable thirty-year career of America's foremost historian and New York Times bestselling author of D-Day, Undaunted Courage, and Citizen Soldiers.

Stephen E. Ambrose's vivid and compelling essays take you to the heart of America's wars, from Grant's stunning Fourth of July victory at Vicksburg, to Nixon's surprise Christmas bombing of Hanoi. Ambrose brings to life the ambition and charisma that led to Custer's great success in the Civil War and f...
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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

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

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