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  • The Compensations of War

    The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War

    by Bowerman Guy Emerson ...
    This remarkable chronicle of one man's rite of passage through the crucible of WWI offers a vividly detailed account of life on the Western Front.In 1917, shortly after the United States' declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army's ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers―Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley―Bowerman longed to "see the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Threshold of Democracy

    Athens in 403 BCE

    by Josiah Ober, Naomi J. Norman, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in Western history. In the wake of Athenian military defeat and rebellion, advocates of democracy have reopened the Assembly, but stability remains elusive. As members of the Assembly, players must contend with divisive issues like citizenship, elections, remilitarization, and dissent. Foremost ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791

    by Jennifer J. Popiel, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual and political currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791. As members of the National Assembly gather to craft a constitution for a new France, students wrestle with the threat of foreign invasion, political and religious power struggles, and questions of liberty and citizenship. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Defining a Nation

    India on the Eve of Independence, 1945

    by Ainslie T. Embree, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain’s largest colony. Will the British transfer power to the Indian National Congress, which claims to speak for all Indians? Or will a separate Muslim state—Pakistan—be carved out of India to be ruled by ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Trial of Anne Hutchinson

    Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England

    by Michael P. Winship, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter. The controversy pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a significant exodus ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Trial of Galileo

    Aristotelianism, the "New Cosmology," and the Catholic Church, 1616–1633

    by Michael S. Pettersen, Frederick Purnell, Jr., Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that supervises the Roman Inquisition. At times action shifts to the palace of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood

    by Gary C. Anderson, Mark C. Carnes ...
    In this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Horn and its aftermath, and details the events and life experiences that ultimately led Sitting Bull into battle. Incorporating the latest scholarship, Anderson profiles this military and spiritual ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

    by Daniel K. Gardner, Mark C. Carnes ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 is set in the Hanlin Academy in Ming dynasty China. Most students are members of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service examination who serve as advisers to the Wanli emperor. Some Grand Secretaries are Confucian “purists,” who hold that tradition obliges the emperor to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Minds on Fire

    How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

    by Mark C. Carnes ...
    Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Faculty, administrators, and tuition-paying parents have been asking this question for nearly two centuries. And the answer is always more or less the same: students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play (fraternities, sports, beer pong, World of Warcraft, social media) that they neglect academics.In Minds on Fire, Carnes shows how ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Historical Atlas of the United States

    by Mark C. Carnes ...
    Designed for all libraries, this large-format, full-color atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events and information based on the most recent census, this work uses the geography of the United States to portray the history of the land and its people. The 300-plus maps tell the engaging story of America with ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

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  • Vimy

    by Pierre Berton ...
    The bestselling, award-winning author of The American Invasion of Canada "has given great drama and immediacy to that turning point in Canadian history" ( Maclean's).On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front—the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woke Racism

    How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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