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Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam

von Michael Lee Col Lanning

"The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ."

At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine...

Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier

von Emily Brady

In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.

Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier...

Colonial Food

von Ann Chandonnet

Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare...

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

von Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

"Remarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." -Washington PostThe civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of...

Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present

von David J. Minderhout

This volume describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in Northern Appalachia.

Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from the Revolution to Secession

von Debra J. Allen

The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from the Revolution to Secession relates the events of this crucial period in American history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and several hundred cross-referenced...

The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution

von David Lefer

"It is not only the cause, but our manner of conducting it, that will establish character."

-John Dickinson, 1773

A nation at war and widespread mistrust of the mil­itary. A financial crash and an endless...

A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians

von Ellen Sue Turner & Thomas R. Hester

This book identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.

Stephen E. Ambrose The Men of War E-book Box Set: Victors, Citizen Soldiers, Wild Blue

von Stephen E. Ambrose

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Gettysburg: The Final Fury

von Bruce Catton

This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came...

The New York Times: Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation

von Clay Risen, George Kalogerakis & Ted Widmer

A major new collection of modern commentary- from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs-on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion on-line journal 

Since...

Bringing It All Back Home

von Philip F. Napoli

A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam

The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes...

American Slavery, American Freedom

von Edmund S. Morgan

"Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."-New York Times Book Review"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes...

The Gentle Warrior: General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC

von Clifton La Bree

hed army units to safety, leaving o wounded behind and, in the process, destroying the effectiveness of several Chinese units. His brilliant performance during this military crisis was the crowning achievement...

Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politican in Uniform

von Richard L. Kiper

John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a political general, he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran...

Repealing National Prohibition: Second edition

von David E. Kyvig

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E....

The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Documentary History

von Bruce A. Kimball

Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, ranging from...

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

von Joseph J. Ellis

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of...

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Myster

von Paul Collins

Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a  stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander...

America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal

von Michael Golay

DURING THE HARSHEST year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, a top woman news reporter of the day and intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, was hired by FDRs right-hand man Harry Hopkins to embark upon a...