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  • Wrecked

    The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy

    by Thomas M Nelson, Jerald Podair ...
    Wrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster—the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, more was lost than the ship and the twenty-nine lives on board. The disaster was a human tragedy as well as an indictment of the American industrial policies that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Strike That Changed New York

    Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

    by Jerald E. Podair ...
    "[This] admirably balanced book will most likely stand as the definitive account of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis for some time . . . engrossing." — New York HistoryWinner of the Allan Nevins Prize awarded by the Society of American HistoriansOn May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

    The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation

    by Richard Carwardine, Joshua Casmir Catalano, Greg Downs, Eric Foner, william haller, J. William Harris, Stephen Kantrowitz, James Loewen, Lawrence McDonnell, Adrienne Petty, Briana Pocratsky, Jerald Podair, Mark Schultz, Randall Stephens, Rhondda Thomas, Gavin Wright ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize—or subvert—that promise over the past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Republican Populist

    Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America

    by Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, Jerald Podair ...
    Typically a maligned figure in American political history, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew is often overlooked. Although he is largely remembered for his alliterative speeches, attacks on the media and East Coast intellectuals, and his resignation from office in 1973 in the wake of tax evasion charges, Agnew had a significant impact on the modern Republican Party that is underappreciated. It ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Struggle for Equality

    Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction

    Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, Jennifer L. Weber ...
    This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson. Complete with a brief interview with the celebrated scholar, this volume reflects the best aspects of McPherson’s work, while casting new light on the struggle that has served as ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States

    Edited by Jerald Podair, Darren Dochuk ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • City of Dreams

    Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles

    by Jerald Podair ...
    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark next to downtown, he ignited a bitter argument over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, City of Dreams ... Read more

    $17.99 USD