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  • Life on the Texas Range

    First published in 1953, this photographic record of the real life and work of cowboys remains a perennial favorite. Erwin E. Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West, and these eighty photographs were among those he chose for an exhibit of his best work at the 1936 Texas Centennial. The text by J. Evetts Haley, a noted historian of the range, skillfully complements Smith's visual ... Leer más

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  • The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer

    This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Dürer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer met with such wide popular and scholarly ... Leer más

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  • The Expert’s Historian

    Otto Hintze and the Nature of Modern Historical Thought

    "As we hoped, Hintze's further development made him one of the great ones in the discipline. To be sure, he was one of those who was only known in the circle of experts, like a very high mountain in a mountain range which one first noticed from the vantage point of a high pass." --Friedrich Meinecke, 1941 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) "What we call historicism is a new, unique, categorical ... Leer más

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  • Five Points

    The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

    The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... Leer más

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  • First Ladies

    From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

    de Betty Caroli ...
    Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth look at Michelle Obama, one of the most charismatic and appealing First Ladies in recent history. ... Leer más

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  • Chronicles of the Revolutionary War

    Chronicles of the Revolutionary War organizes the events of the tumultuous birth of the United States into easily read, short chapters.These chapters enliven the story of the American Revolution and capture the spirit of Americas patriot forebears with a balanced account that also respects their British and Tory antagonists.Ideal for students, or even for reading aloud at meetings of historical ... Leer más

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  • The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco

    A Gallery of Fakers and Frauds, Rascals and Robber Barons, Scoundrels and Scalawags

    Get ready to meet twenty of the most interesting, bizarre, colorful, and unforgettable characters to be found in the annals the most interesting, bizarre, colorful, and unforgettable city in the world.Historian Charles F. Adams brings each personality to vivid life, describing in fascinating detail their strange contributions to the first century of San Francisco’s history.These men and women ... Leer más

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  • Look Up, Charleston! A Walking Tour of Charleston, West Virginia

    de Doug Gelbert ...
    There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour from walkthetown.com is ready to explore when you are.Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides ... Leer más

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  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

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    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... Leer más

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  • Endangered Dreams

    The Great Depression in California

    de Kevin Starr ...
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    California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries ... Leer más

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  • America the Philosophical

    de Carlin Romano ...
    A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and ... Leer más

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  • Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon

    Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

    The notorious 1942 “Sleepy Lagoon” murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregón Pagán here provides the first ... Leer más

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