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  • Another Road: Myth and Pavement in the American Imagination

    by Edward Caudill ...
    With Another Road, author and scholar Ed Caudill has rewarded readers with a new and unique view of the American highway.The book offers a fascinating view of the importance of American roads, traveling down the muddy cowpaths of the early republic to cruising over the wide and often-controversial multi-layered interstates of modern life.This book is a travel guide, not to a place or a route, but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Wild Bill

    James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory

    by Paul Ashdown, Edward Caudill ...
    Series series Engaging the Civil War
    Wild Bill’s ever-evolving legendWhen it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s story was no exception. Mythologized and sensationalized, Hickok was turned into the deadliest gunfighter of all, a so-called moral killer, a national phenomenon even while he was alive.Rather than attempt to tease truth from ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Inventing Custer

    The Making of an American Legend

    by Edward Caudill, Paul Ashdown ...
    Series series The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
    Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill and Paul ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Darwinism in the Press

    the Evolution of An Idea

    by Edward Caudill ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Numerous books and articles have outlined Darwin's impact on American scientists, philosophers, businessmen, and clergy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Few, however, have undertaken a study of Darwinism in the form in which it was presented to most Americans -- popular newspapers and magazines. The main concern of this book is to identify how the press is treated as a part of our culture - - ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

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  • Angels and Ages

    A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious ... Read more

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  • The Warfare between Science & Religion

    The Idea That Wouldn't Die

    Edited by Jeff Hardin, Ronald L Numbers, Ronald A. Binzley ...
    A "very welcome volume" of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion ( British Journal for the History of Science).The "conflict thesis"—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished ... Read more

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  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

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  • Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Series Book 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, ... Read more

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  • What Unites Us

    Reflections on Patriotism

    by Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner ...
    Now featured in the Netflix documentary "Rather", legendary journalist Dan Rather writes with passion and integrity about what it means to be American, especially during these fractured times, in his resonant New York Times bestseller."A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays, he gives voice to the marginalized and rips ... Read more

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  • Building a Bridge to the 18th Century

    How the Past Can Improve Our Future

    by Neil Postman ...
    At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that ... Read more

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  • Creation and the Courts (With Never Before Published Testimony from the "Scopes II" Trial)

    Eighty Years of Conflict in the Classroom and the Courtroom

    by Norman L. Geisler, Wayne Frair ...
    With the explosion of the Intelligent Design movement, many Americans are once again forced to take sides in the long-standing battle between creation and evolution. Yet many feel inadequately educated on the judicial process of this battle.In Creation and the Courts, Norman Geisler offers a behind-the-scenes look at the testimonies and arguments of the prosecution and defense of the major ... Read more

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