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  • Paper Trails

    The US Post and the Making of the American West

    A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late ... Leer más

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    Paper Trails

    The US Post and the Making of the American West

    Narrado por Steve Menasche ...

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    9 hora 16 minutos

    In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. As millions of settlers moved ... Leer más

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    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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  • West from Appomattox

    The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

    "This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a ... Leer más

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  • How the Post Office Created America

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    “’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street JournalA masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical ... Leer más

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  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    de Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Leer más

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Leer más

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  • For All the People

    Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America

    de John Curl ...
    Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory.Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

    Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

    In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the ... Leer más

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  • Young and Restless

    The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

    de Mattie Kahn ...
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  • Only the Clothes on Her Back

    Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ... Leer más

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  • The Highest Glass Ceiling

    Women’s Quest for the American Presidency

    In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates. Their quest illuminates today’s political landscape, showing that Hillary ... Leer más

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