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subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
This is history on a grand scale—a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
This work catapults Gordon-Reed into the very first rank of historians of slavery.
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America.
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
From the award-winning author of "Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" comes the first full, authoritative look at the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt--the complex and combative man whose genius and force of will gave birth to modern ...
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change ...
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History * “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th ...
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
subject:"History United States 19th Century" from books.google.com
Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America.