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1927 and the Rise of Modern America (Book)

Charles J Shindo

ISBN:9780700617159

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era--not only in aviation but also in American culture. The 1920s proved to be a transitional decade for the United States...more details
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A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825-1862 (Book)

Craig Miner

ISBN:9780700617555

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Alaska's Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness (Book)

Roxanne Willis

ISBN:9780700617487

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America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (Book)

Paul J Springer

ISBN:9780700617173

Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war...more details
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America's School for War: Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II (Book)

Peter J Schifferle

ISBN:9780700617142

When the United States entered World War II, it took more than industrial might to transform its tiny army--smaller than even Portugal's--into an overseas fighting force of more than eight and a half million...more details
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Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (Book)

Susan Rugh

ISBN:9780700617593

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Bess Wallace Truman: Harry's White House "Boss" (Book)

Sara L Sale

ISBN:9780700617418

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Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 (Book)

Graydon A Tunstall

ISBN:9780700617203

The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130...more details
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Bush V. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy (Book)

Charles L Zelden

ISBN:9780700617494

The infamous 2000 presidential election produced hanging chads, butterfly ballots, endless recounts, raucous allegations, and a constitutional crisis--until a controversial Supreme Court decision allowed George W...more details
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Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds (Book)

Tony Shaw

ISBN:9780700617432

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady (Book)

Maurine Beasley

ISBN:9780700617272

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Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies (Book)

Kristie Miller

ISBN:9780700617371

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Executive Privilege (Book)

Mark J Rozell

ISBN:9780700617135

With the ghost of Watergate still haunting our political conscience, one might expect American presidents to hesitate before invoking executive privilege. But in the wake of the Clinton impeachment and with the onset of the Bush years...more details
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Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie (Book)

Jim Hoy

ISBN:9780700617586

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Forgotten Warriors: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War (Book)

T X Hammes

ISBN:9780700617326

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Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood (Book)

Marilyn S Blackwell

ISBN:9780700617289

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Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage (Book)

Earl M Maltz

ISBN:9780700617364

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Gibbons V. Ogden: John Marshall, Steamboats, and the Commerce Clause (Book)

Herbert A Johnson

ISBN:9780700617340

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Helen Taft: Our Musical First Lady (Book)

Lewis L Gould

ISBN:9780700617319

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Historic Preservation and the Imagined West (Book)

Judy Mattivi Morley

ISBN:9780700617609

Stroll down Larimer Street in Denver or through Pioneer Square in Seattle and you feel that you're stepping into history while browsing the expensive boutiques and tourist shops. But are you? In this intriguing study of some of America's favorite places...more details
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Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (Book)

Edward B Westermann

ISBN:9780700617241

When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed and close at its heels. Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei...more details
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Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (Book)

Bob Pepperman Taylor

ISBN:9780700617456

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Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969-1974 (Book)

Robert H Ferrell

ISBN:9780700617302

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John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History (Book)

Virtil W Dean

ISBN:9780700617234

Prominent Kansas historian Virgil Dean has gathered a distinguished team of writers--Thomas Isern and Craig Miner among them--who have crafted incisive portraits of twenty-seven notable men and women...more details
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Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils (Book)

Rex Buchanan

ISBN:9780700617265

What are the state's outstanding landforms, and where are they found? How were Kansas rocks and minerals formed? Why is Kansas world famous among fossil collectors? How does one "read the rocks" to find evidence of ancient oceans...more details
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Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 (Book)

Barbara Berglund

ISBN:9780700617227

The San Francisco that rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire was a city of rigid social stratification--a city determined to contain its diverse and disorderly rough-and-tumble past some sixty years after its acquisition by the United States...more details
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Mendez V. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (Book)

Philippa Strum

ISBN:9780700617197

While Brown v. Board of Education remains much more famous, Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) was actually the first case in which segregation in education was successfully challenged in federal court. Finally giving Mendez its due...more details
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Native Activism in Cold War America: The Stuggle for Sovereignty (Book)

Daniel M Cobb

ISBN:9780700617500

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Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896 (Book)

R Hal Williams

ISBN:9780700617210

The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old...more details
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Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (Book)

N E H Hull

ISBN:9780700617548

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Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front (Book)

Denise J Youngblood

ISBN:9780700617616

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood...more details
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Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece (Book)

Earl J Hess

ISBN:9780700617579

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Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests (Book)

Richard E Wood

ISBN:9780700617258

On the high plains of Kansas, the future of rural America is at stake. Small farming communities are the heart and soul of America, but it's no secret that they're under siege. Family farms are disappearing and manufacturing is out-sourced. Schools close...more details
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The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance (Book)

James Roger Sharp

ISBN:9780700617425

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The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Book)

Anthony Burke Smith

ISBN:9780700617166

When John Kennedy ran for president, some Americans thought a Catholic couldn't--or shouldn't--win the White House. Credit Bing Crosby, among others...more details
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