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  • Coal and Empire

    The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America

    The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security.Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of ... Leer más

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  • A Patriot's History of the United States

    From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement, Revised Edition

    For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more ... Leer más

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  • Longstreet

    The Confederate General Who Defied the South

    Winner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for HistoryWinner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for NonfictionFinalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyA “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) of the controversial Confederate general who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South.It was the most remarkable political about-face... ... Leer más

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  • A War of Frontier and Empire

    The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902

    First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Flyers:The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

    de J. Todd Moye ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to ... Leer más

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  • The African American Soldier:

    From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell

    More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded.Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an education. White historians of the period, and for years after ... Leer más

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  • President McKinley

    Architect of the American Century

    Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a president” (The New York Times Book Review) whose low place in the presidential rankings does not reflect the stamp he put on America’s future role in the world.Republican President William McKinley ... Leer más

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  • Ulysses S. Grant

    The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877

    Series series The American Presidents
    The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well.As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But his presidency is another matter—the most common word used ... Leer más

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  • Black Redcoats

    The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814–1816

    Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States. During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and ... Leer más

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  • The Years the Locusts Have Eaten: Liberia 1816-2004

    This is a historical narrative of Liberia and the Liberian people. It begins with the formation of the Liberian state by the American Colonization Society (ACS) during the early nineteenth century, and ends in a colossal civil war in the 21st century. In their trepidation of a slave insurgency of Haitian proportion, and in their zeal to separate the races, the ACS created Liberia as a homeland for ... Leer más

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  • Slavery and The Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn’t Tell You

    de Garry Bowers ...
    NOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.For later ... Leer más

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  • A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth

    The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America

    de James Tejani ...
    **Winner of the 2025 Bancroft Prize"[An] enthralling debut…a beguiling history of Southern California, early industrial development, and U.S. empire." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A deeply researched narrative of the creation of the Port of Los Angeles, a central event in America’s territorial expansion and rise as a global economic power.**The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects ... Leer más

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