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  • Texas and Texans in World War II

    1941–1945

    by Joseph G. Dawson, Bernadette Pruitt, Michael Hurd, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Arnoldo De León, Zachary Montz, Houston Faust Mount II II, Stephen M. Sloan, Henry C. Dethloff, Kelly E. Crager, Keith J. Volanto ...
    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Citizen and Soldier

    A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense from Colonial America to the Present

    by Henry C. Dethloff, Gerald E. Shenk ...
    Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of this country since 1776. Yet, since the end of World War II United States forces have been caught up in many long term military engagements, and the military aspect of citizenship has ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • To Bataan and Back

    The World War II Diary of Major Thomas Dooley

    by Jerry C. Cooper, John A. Adams, Henry C. Dethloff ...
    The Aggie tradition of Muster stretches back to the earliest days of the college. But an extraordinary Muster took place during World War II that would change and further hallow the service thereafter. In the spring of 1942, with Japanese forces poised to overrun the Allies on the Philippine island of Corregidor, Maj. Thomas Dooley, class of 1935, and Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, class of 1908, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Suddenly, Tomorrow Came

    The NASA History of the Johnson Space Center

    by Henry C. Dethloff ...
    Series series Dover Books on Astronomy
    As the astronauts' home base and the site of Mission Control, the Johnson Space Center has witnessed some of the most triumphant moments in American history. Spanning initiatives from the 1960s to 1993, this illustrated volume traces the center's history, starting with its origins at the beginning of the space race in the late 1950s. Thrilling, authoritative accounts explain the development and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M

    The First Hundred Years

    by Henry C. Dethloff, Stephen W. Searcy ...
    Series series Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
    The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering.The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Texas A&M University

    A Pictorial History, 1876-1996, Second Edition

    by Henry C. Dethloff ...
    Series Book 63 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    This expanded edition of Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History gives a panoramic view of Texas A&M, from its infancy as a college with forty-eight agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students.Captured in full-color photographs are the modern university, its buildings, its far-reaching programs, and its students. The book is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    by J. Todd Moye ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Half American

    The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    by Matthew F. Delmont ...
    **• Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction• A New York Times Notable Book• A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more!The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont“Matthew F. Delmont’s book is filled ... Read more

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  • Leadership Moments from NASA

    Achieving the Impossible

    by Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth Howell, PhD ...
    The NASA way: lessons on leadership, teamwork, and corporate culture. How does NASA take on seemingly insurmountable challenges, recover from tragedy and continue to attract the best and brightest talent?Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the culture of the famed organization and ... Read more

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  • Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles

    America’s First Black Paratroopers

    by Tanya Lee Stone ...
    They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rocket Men

    The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    by Craig Nelson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street JournalRestoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket ... Read more

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  • A Different Mirror for Young People

    A History of Multicultural America

    by Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff ...
    Series series For Young People Series
    A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it ... Read more

    $14.99 USD