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John M Coski
[Paperback 2006]
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In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To... more
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Charles Merriam ,
Jr Sidney A Pearson
[Paperback 2008]
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Charles Merriam is scarcely read today, and even among scholars he is probably more often cited than read seriously. His ambiguous position in the study of American democracy is unfortunate. Between the two world wars, Merriman was the doyen of American p... more
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Norman Bolotin ,
Christine Laing
[Paperback 2002]
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A dazzling photographic history of the fair.... more
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Paul A Cimbala ,
Barton C Shaw
[Hardcover 2007]
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By focusing on specific communities, these essays examine the efforts of individuals and small groups to build their vision of the New South. Ranging across the region, from Texas to Virginia, the essays examine specific events at the city or state level.... more
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Richard Allan Fox ,
W Raymond Wood
[Paperback 2003]
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The myth of Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn is shattered by Richard Allan Fox, Jr., who demonstrates that the troopers' end came amid terror and disarray, with no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. Using innovative... more
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David E Paterson
[Hardcover 1998]
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A Frontier Link with the World is the history of one small company which operated a track sixteen miles long and served essentially one community. This company shared significant characteristics with its much larger neighbors, and therefore serves as a mi... more
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Greg King
[Hardcover 2008]
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Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age "Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted... more
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By
Michael L Tate
[Hardcover 2007]
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The last thirty-five years of the nineteenth century were a time of dramatic change for the U.S. military, including the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War; fighting the Indian Wars of 1865 through 1890; and shifting military personnel concer... more
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Lawrence N Powell
[Paperback 2008]
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The writings of George Washington Cable (18441925) included the short-story collection OLD CREOLE DAYS and his most famous novel, THE GRANDISSIMES, which received widespread critical acclaim and was serialized in the country's best highbrow magazines. In... more
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George G Foster ,
Stuart M Blumin
[Paperback 1991]
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First published in 1850, "New York by Gas-Light" explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all th... more
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Daniel Eli Burnstein
[Hardcover 2006]
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To many Progressive-Era reformers, the extent of street cleanliness was considered an important gauge for determining whether a city was providing the conditions necessary for impoverished immigrants to attain a state of "decency"--"a level of individual... more
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Robert M Fogelson
[Paperback 2007]
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The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome gro The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded... more
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Edwin R Sweeney ,
Jr Frank J Sladen
[Paperback 2008]
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A tribute to the legendary chief and his people and a rememberance of two courageous officers "Cochise" was a name that struck terror into hearts across the Southwest. Yet in the autumn of 1872, Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona's rocky Dragoon... more
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By
Steve Leikin
[Hardcover 2004]
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By
Melissa Klapper
[Hardcover 2007]
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Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth... more
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Jerry Green ,
John V Lauderdale
[Hardcover 1995]
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On a cold winter's morning more than a century ago, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry attacked and killed more than 260 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. In the aftermath, the broken, twisted bodies of the Lakota people were so... more
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William H Flayhart
[Hardcover 2000]
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This book presents the largely unknown early history (1870-1900) of the American Steamship Company--an extremely colorful and eventful time replete with disasters and triumphs.... more
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Thomas Beer
[Paperback 1997]
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Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presidenti... more
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By
Rutherford B Hayes ,
B Rutherford Hayes
[Paperback 2007]
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By
Scott Molloy
[Paperback 2007]
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American cities' rapid expansion after the Civil War fueled the growth of organized transportation systems - omnibuses, horsecars, and later electric streetcars. Trolley Wars traces the social dynamics of these first mass-transportation systems as they de... more
