During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern in that mountain, it is rumored that billions of dollars’ worth of artifacts and thousands of gold and silver ingots and coins...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496229717)
In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda than objective fact. However, by 1862 both sides...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246547)
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph Joe A Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bearss life (ca. 17901872) are widely known, including several versions of ho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247216)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247223)
In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 191020, Piña explores how citizens forged a subst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496243515)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246226)
In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 191020, Piña explores how citizens forged a subst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246400)
Named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year by Pima County Public Library On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496233745)
The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (181081), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popula...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247322)
Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love storyof a mothers love for her husband and a fathers love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world of horses, Liza J. Nicholas reveals how a parent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246806)
Since the team was established in 1971, the Texas Rangers have built a rich history and identity that makes them unique among MLB teams. The Texas Rangers and Me takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247551)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496244833)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496239587)
Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national parks immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors means air pollution from car emissions, noise pollution that drown...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033820)
Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478038733)
Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089404)
During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049743)
During the Jim Crow era, Black activists appealed to a diverse population of migrating Black Americans by making them viscerally feel that the threat of anti-Black violence continued to afflict them as a group and to undergird blackness itself. To t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503639683)
Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage suspect immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic procedures involving extensive paperwork and live exam...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089428)
Facing starvation and ruin on Utahs nineteenth-century frontier, Latter-day Saint pioneers launched an audacious experiment to reshape the English language: the Deseret Alphabet. Ryan K. Shosted and N. E. Davis trace the alphabets origins in the l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049750)
Facing starvation and ruin on Utahs nineteenth-century frontier, Latter-day Saint pioneers launched an audacious experiment to reshape the English language: the Deseret Alphabet. Ryan K. Shosted and N. E. Davis trace the alphabets origins in the l...Loe edasi...
Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage suspect immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic procedures involving extensive paperwork and live exam...Loe edasi...
Covering the states of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, A Nations Birth is a historic travel guide that takes readers to the important sites in Revolutionary War history. Organized by state and city, each chapter details...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies on Black Women in US History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009709408)
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
Showing how emotion was used to maintain, survive and resist slavery, this book significantly expands our knowledge of enslaved peoples lives in the US South. It will interest students and scholars of African American history, Atlantic history, and...Loe edasi...
This book offers an analysis of the United States’ conventional military buildup during the final decade of the Cold War.Departing from a historiography largely focused on strategic arms and summit diplomacy, the work examines how the moder...Loe edasi...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855805246)
Shows how communities across the Americas transform their grief over murdered and missing trans and non-trans women, girls, and two-spirit people into powerful social movements that challenge state violence and demand justice. A groundbre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804843)
A timely examination of the presidents Article II powers and duties at a moment in history when an autocratic presidency is a very real possibility. Today we confront a potential constitutional crisis, with the presidency dominating the...Loe edasi...
During the early 19th century, Spain was losing its grip on her American colonies, resulting in an explosion of privateering and West Indian piracy. British Royal Navy ships hunted and destroyed pirates wherever they could be found, especially...Loe edasi...
On November 28, 1729, Natchez warriors walked into Fort Rosalie, Louisiana, and opened fire on French colonists. Within an hour, nearly 250 French were dead, and as many women and children were taken hostage. After several punitive expeditions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9798899190056)
This account reveals the overlooked role of Marine Defense Battalions in shaping the early Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. Highlighting their coordination with Marine aviation and their legacy in today’s littoral regiments, it shows...Loe edasi...
A sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower. “Takes us beyond the familiar New York papers and editors...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Church Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640659674)
A call for unity in the face of growing dehumanization of marginalized people–from a powerful voice in the dialogue on racism today.The walk back on a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The silence across communities as t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366319)
An unlikely champion of modern faith in the heart of the New South In A New Christianity for the New South, Paul Anthony Sanchez examines the life and legacy of William Louis Poteat, influential president of Wake Forest Colleg...Loe edasi...
The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history....Loe edasi...
The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804768)
Explores how and why an elite member of the legal profession, Arthur Garfield Hays, confronted and fought against the ingrained racism of his society, illuminating key aspects of the long civil rights era. Beginning in 1925 the corporate...Loe edasi...
In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern in that mountain, it is rumored that billions of dollars’ worth of artifacts and thousands of gold and silver ingots and coins...Loe edasi...
The #1 bestselling American history survey text Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why”...Loe edasi...
The #1 bestselling American history survey text Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why”...Loe edasi...
Give Me Liberty! is beloved by students and instructors alike because it pulls the puzzle pieces of the past into a coherent picture. Learning not only the “what” but also the “why” helps students take away key information and develop his...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496229717)
In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda than objective fact. However, by 1862 both sides...Loe edasi...
