Univ Tennessee Press, January 2009. Hardcover. The eleventh volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk contains some of the most consequential and interesting material in the series. Failure to restore diplomatic relations with Mexico, the advent of the Mexican-American war, British preparations for war over the Oregon country, the... More
University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk s correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas... More
Bison Books, February 2001. Paper Back. On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of... More
Bantam Classics, July 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history form the enduring legacy of America's Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was... More
Modern Library, September 1992. First Edition. Cloth. "Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing, " Monroe Beardsley writes in his introduction to this collection. "If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily... More
University of Illinois Press, December 1973. Hardcover. More
Brill Academic Publishers, May 2006. Hardcover. This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of... More
University Press of Florida, December 2006. Hardcover. This memoir by Freeman Sparks Bowley, a young white officer who served as a lieutenant in a regiment of U.S. Colored Troops in the Union Army, is the work of a superb storyteller who describes how his Civil War experiences transformed him from... More
Presidio Press, June 2001. Hardcover. In dust jacket. More
Duke University Press, October 2003. Paper Back. States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory--its place in social relations and the forms... More
University of Georgia Press, November 2011. Trade Paperback. Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves... More
Penguin Books, September 2018. Paper Back. The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how the president's staff can change the nation "West Wingers is exceptional . . . We have so much to learn from these... More
Cornell University Press, September 1991. Trade Paperback. In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2017. Hardcover. The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters... More
Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page marker. More
Modern Library, 1972. Cloth. More
Mentor Books, 1949. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1955. Trade Paperback. The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville. More
Indiana University Press, February 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has light shelf wear and minor chipping. Mylar wrapped. More
Harper, April 2018. Hardcover. New York Times bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus"--New York Times The dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election, as seen through the eyes of the New York Times reporter who gave eight years... More
Harper, April 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. New York Times bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus"--New York Times The dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election, as seen through the eyes of the New York Times reporter who gave... More
Yale University Press, March 2018. Hardcover. A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence... More
Doubleday, June 2018. Hardcover. *National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of... More
Metropolitan Books, July 2018. Hardcover. When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's... More
Metropolitan Books, July 2018. Hardcover. When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's... More
