Subject: History
White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide
“As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as ‘black rage,’ […]
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Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
In the summer of 1776, Washington’s army in Brooklyn and New York City faced one of the largest invading forces ever assembled by the British […]
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Reading Lincoln : an annotated bibliography
The bibliography, which covers different works on Lincoln and related subjects, is an unpublished manuscript. Most of the recent books on Lincoln are incorporated into […]
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How the Post Office created America : a history
Discover the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they […]
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Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930
“Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual […]
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Ancestral mounds : vitality and volatility of Native America
“Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, […]
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Thomas and Charity Rotch : the Quaker experience of settlement in Ohio in the early republic,1800-1824
This first full length study of Quakers Charity and Thomas Rotch, early New England settlers to northeast Ohio (1811–1824) explores their role in the transformation […]
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The road taken : the history and future of America’s infrastructure
“Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a […]
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