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  • Pittsburgh Remembers World War II

    by Joseph F. Rishel ...
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    Enormous sacrifice on the battlefields and tireless effort on the homefront� Pittsburgh answered the call to duty after the news of Pearl Harbor hit local airwaves that infamous afternoon. With its high enlistment rates and booming war industries, the city was instrumental in the Allied victory. Duquesne University professor Joseph F. Rishel has compiled the memories of seventeen residents who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Founding Families Of Pittsburgh

    The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760-1910

    by Joseph F Rishel ...
    Series series Regional
    As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Edited by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
    "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent ... Read more

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  • Empire and Nation

    The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

    by Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
    A look at America's revolution in the context of the larger British empire: "Many interesting essays . . . a valuable scholarly contribution." — Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryHow did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and ... Read more

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  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Learning

    The South's Long War on Black Literacy

    by Derek W Black ...
    The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American SouthFew have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South ... Read more

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  • The History of American Higher Education

    Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher educationThis book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870

    by Daniel R. Mandell ...
    An important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equality—and how we lost it.Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Award for 2021The United States has some of the highest levels of both wealth and income inequality in the world. Although modern-day Americans are increasingly concerned about this growing inequality, many nonetheless believe that the country was ... Read more

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  • The Making of Tocqueville's America

    Law and Association in the Early United States

    by Kevin Butterfield ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations—and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how and why early nineteenth-century Americans were, in Tocqueville's words, "forever forming associations." In The Making of Tocqueville's America, ... Read more

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  • Exchange of Ideas

    The Economy of Higher Education in Early America

    by Adam R. Nelson ...
    The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer

    Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America

    by James L. Huston ...
    Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that northern ... Read more

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  • The World of the Revolutionary American Republic

    Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent

    Edited by Andrew Shankman ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American continent. The World of the Revolutionary American Republic brings together original essays from an array of ... Read more

    $245.00 USD