Schlagwort History - U.S. – alle Bücher, Seite 4

Richard Brust
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physi…

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Erika Marie Bsumek
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.

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Nicholas Buccola
One Man's Freedom

From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom---and how their conflicting vision…

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A'Lelia Bundles
Joy Goddess

"Raucously immersive...An intimate portrait of Black opulence in the early 20th century." ---Oprah DailyA "scintillating, vibrant" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) and deeply rese…

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Mike Bunn, Clay Williams
Settling the Mississippi Territory

The Territory That Built Two StatesThe Mississippi Territory existed as a political entity for nearly two decades. It stretched from the Tennessee border southward to the Gulf of Mexico and was bounded on…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, re…

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Jim Burnett
Saltgrass Prairie Saga

"Texas during the Civil War period is often viewed through the lenses of military tactics and the state's role in the Confederacy. But what was life like for the families who endured wartime separati…

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Edwin G Burrows, Mike Wallace
Gotham

In this epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Burrows and Wallace have produced a monumental history of New York City--ranging from the Indian tribes that settled the island of Manna-hatta to the consolidati…

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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Tamera J Buzick, Ronald M James, Michael A Bedeau
Bowers Mansion

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bowers Mansion, dates to the height of the Civil War. The property has a tragic history shrouded in legend, laid…

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Louis P Cain
Chicago Before the Fire

"An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a fur trading post to a thriving city. Louis P. Cain's economic history places pre-1871 Chicago within …

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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H Zahra Caldwell
The Fiercest Kind

Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat's On halted for three days due to an on-s…

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Leigh Campbell-Hale
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine

Mining the American WestRemembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mi…

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Nicole Carr
The Price of Exclusion

From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities ---while confronting a syste…

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Marie Carter
Mortimer and the Witches

UNTAPPED NEW YORK: THE BEST NYC BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe neglected histories of 19th-century NYC's maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit themUnder the pseudonym Q. K. Phi…

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Edward Cavallerano
Fire in the Piney Woods

"Fire lookout towers are enjoying a retrospective rebirth, attracting the curious and the adventurous, as Americans seeking escape for moments of solitude rediscover the structures' national signific…

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Charles D Chamberlain
New Orleans

"Intended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain's New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city's history. Although many excellent books ar…

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Gordon H Chang
War, Race, and Culture

"Writing history, the systematic effort to understand the human past, is a demanding intellectual endeavor. For historian Gordon H. Chang, it has also been a personal and moral enterprise intimately …

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