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From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's…
defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants--both Northern and Southern--to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life.Barnstormers, Wing-Walking and Flying Circuses
Par Peter C. Brown. 2022
While large numbers of aeroplanes had been produced In America for the war effort overseas at the Western Front, it…
was found that that the British, French and Germans were far ahead of them when it came to flight technology, which led to a huge surplus of aeroplanes in the United States. The government’s solution to recover some of the money was to sell the surplus stock off for as little as $200 dollars each. With no licence being required to fly a plane, the offer attracted many ex-fighter pilots as well as civilians, who developed a new American pastime known as barnstorming. Part entertainers, part thrill-seekers, the barnstormers made their way across the country as solo acts and in groups called 'Flying Circuses'. The American flier Ormer Locklear wowed the crowds by climbing out of his aeroplane and walk along the wing, and it wasn’t long before flying circuses held less appeal for spectators if it didn’t have a wing-walking act. Handstands, jumps across planes, and even the odd game of tennis were attempted by barnstormers to attract larger paying audiences. In 1936, the US Government banned wing-walking under 1,500 ft, which doomed aerial stunting, and while a few wing-walking teams operated in the 1970s, it wasn’t until barnstormer Vic Norman founded his famous AeroSuperBatics wing-walking team in the early 1980s that the sight of daredevils hand-standing and flying upside down on the wing was seen in Europe. Several teams around the world subsequently formed using aeroplanes such as the Boeing Stearman or the Curtiss 'Jenny' biplanes to wow crowds as a part of regular air displays, and their appeal has continued to rise since the 2000s.Shrimp 'n Lobster: A New England Adventure (Shrimp 'n Lobster Adventures #3)
Par Charlotte Rygh. 2022
From the bustling cityscape of New York to the sloping hills of San Francisco, Shrimp &‘n Lobster are keen to…
explore the characteristic sights of cities around the United States. In this third installment, the animated duo takes to Yankee territory to discover landmarks like the USS Constitution, Paul Revere House, and Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Filled with spirited illustrations and local charm, this guide to New England will captivate children from the Freedom Trail to the Ben and Jerry&’s headquarters with equal parts education and delight. Readers will have a blast discovering the history and culture of this coastal region as they follow Shrimp &‘n Lobster to Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.Imperios del mundo atlántico: España y Gran Bretaña en América (1492-1830)
Par John H. Elliott. 2005
El relato definitivo de la épica colonización europea de las Américas. Durante siglos, españoles y británicos levantaron sus respectivos imperios…
coloniales en América sobre las ruinas de las civilizaciones que encontraron y destruyeron al llegar allí. En más de una ocasión los historiadores han comparado ambas experiencias. Sin embargo, este libro es el primero en el que se hace esa comparación de los imperios americanos de España yGran Bretaña de una forma sistemática desde sus inicios hasta el final del dominio español en América a comienzos del siglo XIX. El prestigioso historiador John H. Elliott identifica y explica tanto las similitudes como las diferencias que se dieron en el proceso colonizador, en el carácter de las sociedades coloniales, en los estilos distintivos del gobierno imperial, y en el desarrollo de los movimientos que condujeron a la independencia. Elliott estudia cómo las estructuras políticas, económicas y sociales de la Américaespañola de la británica acabaron pareciéndose a pesar de los rasgos que las separaban, y cómo todavía influyen en la América del siglo XXI. Con el estilo claro pero riguroso que caracteriza al autor, se abordan aquí los temas fundamentales del fenómeno de la colonización: el interés por los imperios, en boga en la época; el ángulo comparativo (el imperio británico y el español, América del Norte yAmérica del Sur); el encuentro imperial y la resistencia local. En conjunto, un análisis experto en el que se combina la investigación en profundidad con una narración de lectura apasionante. Reseñas:«Magistral, meticulosamente investigada y elegantemente ejecutada. Identifica con brillante claridad las similitudes y diferencias entre la América británica y la española, y borda su análisis con detalles memorables.»Niall Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal «Un modelo de historia comparada.»The New York Times Book Review«Un análisis minucioso y amplio de miras que anula gran parte de las ideas convencionales. Este fue durante mucho tiempo un tema en busca de autor, y Elliott estaba destinado a cumplir con esa misión.»Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Literary Review «Magistral. Marca un hito en la historia de dos imperios y en la posibilidad de compararlos.»Josep María Fradera, Revista de Libros«Sus conclusiones que hacen plena justicia a las cualidades de equilibrio y de sensibilidad para el matiz que caracterizan al gran hispanista británico.»Carlos Martínez Shaw, Pedralbes «Unavigorosa historia de encuentros y desencuentros americanos que deshace por el camino muchos tópicos.»Miguel Ángel Bastenier, Babelia «Monumental. Elliott utiliza la historia de cada colonización para iluminar a la otra. Desafía nuestros prejuicios sobre la conquista española y los mitos patrióticos que se han gestado en torno a la inglesa.»Financial TimesContinent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (Reconstructing America)
Par Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Brian Schoen, Andrew L. Slap, Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers. 2023
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S.…
Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West.As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America.By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest,…
and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing…
new era, told from the perspective of the anti-racist activists who fought backOn August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder of counterprotestor Heather Heyer.In this book, Emmy-nominated CNN journalist and former Charlottesville resident Nora Neus crafts an extraordinary account from the voices of the students, faith leaders, politicians, and community members who were there. Through a vivid collage of original interviews, new statements from Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, social media posts, court testimony, and government reports, this book portrays the arrival of white supremacist demonstrators, the interfaith service held in response, the tiki torch march on the university campus, the protests and counterprotests in downtown Charlottesville the next day, and the deadly car attack. 24 Hours in Charlottesville will also feature never-before-disclosed information from activists and city government leaders, including Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer.The Roots of American Order
Par Russell Kirk. 2003
What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American…
soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a "tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America in the twenty-first century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassed.The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How MI6 and the CIA Work Together
Par Michael Smith. 2023
Gripping, deeply researched, and authoritative, the history of one of the closest intelligence and security relationships in the world The…
Special Relationship between the United States and Britain is touted by politicians when it suits their purpose and, as frequently, dismissed as myth, not least by the media. Yet the truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. In The Real Special Relationship, Michael Smith reveals how it all began, eighty years ago, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941—ten months before the US entered World War II—marked the start of a close collaboration between the intellitence services of the two nations. When that war ended and the Cold War began, both sides recognized that the way they worked together to decode German and Japanese ciphers could be used to counter the Soviet threat. They laid the foundation for the behind-the-scenes intelligence sharing that has continued—despite rivalries among the services and occasional political conflict and public disputes between the two nations—through the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to the threats of the present moment. Smith, who served in British military intelligence, brings together a fascinating range of characters, from Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming to John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Edward Snowden. Supported by in-depth interviews and a broad range of personal contacts in the intelligence community, he takes the reader into the workings of MI6, the CIA, the NSA, and all those who strive to keep us safe. Sir John Scarlett, former chief of MI6, has written the introduction, and Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the NSA, has provided the foreword.The History of Browning Firearms: A Complete Chronicle of the Greatest Gunsmith of All Time
Par David Miller. 2023
A captivating and wonderfully illustrated chronicle of one of the most influential and legendary names in gunsmithing history. John M.…
Browning was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1855, into a world of gunsmithing. His father was a gunsmith who was already well known for a number of innovations in the field. As a young boy, John spent hours in his father's shop and allegedly knew the name of every part of a gun before he could read. It's hardly surprising that at age twenty-three, he was filing his first patent for the "J. M. Browning Single-Shot Rifle." Browning inherited his father&’s gun making shop, and with funds of less than a thousand dollars, developed it into a highly successful business that developed several iconic firearms including the Colt Peacemaker. Browning also cooperated with Winchester to develop a whole range of small arms including semi-automatic pistols, single-shot rifles, repeater rifles, and machine guns. His enthusiasm and creativity have led many to believe he is the greatest firearm designer of all time. This fascinating book describes the Browning history, and in addition to covering the full range of inventions and designs, also shows various gun-making artifacts, copies of designers' drawings, and interesting photographs of the weapons in the hands of users. The History of Browning Firearms makes a perfect addition to the libraries of Wild West buffs and firearms enthusiasts.John McCain: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book)
Par Gram Adams. 2023
Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography that's all about Senator John McCain! It's the…
perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers.This Little Golden Book about John McCain--the Vietnam war veteran, six-term U.S. senator from the state of Arizona, and Republican presidential nominee—is an inspiring read-aloud for young girls and boys.Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: • Misty Copeland • Frida Kahlo • Iris Apfel • Bob Ross • Queen Elizabeth II • Harriet TubmanThe Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living
Par Thom Hartmann. 2023
America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our…
democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for nearly two centuries, and now our very system of democratic elections is at stake. So how do we save our democracy?Hartmann's newest book in the celebrated Hidden History Series offers a clear call to action and a set of solutions with road maps for individuals and communities to follow to create a safer, more just society and a more equitable and prosperous economy.The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity…
often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates. But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and preparing for technological changes. Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal experience inside the building trades to explain one of our economy’s least understood sectors. Erlich’s multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the industry, the backdrop of union policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades. He offers a much-needed overview of construction’s past and present while exploring roads to the future.On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924 (Working Class in American History)
Par William D. Riddell. 2023
In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States’ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider…
the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America’s emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman’s Union of America, they contested the U.S.’s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas. Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire.A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil rights and social movements in the…
Americas post-1945The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical skills. This second edition provides:- Reliable, clear and in-depth narrative from topic experts - Analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates- Dedicated exam practice with model answers and practice questions- TOK support and Historical Investigation questions to help with all aspects of the DiplomaNational Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
Par Steve A. Yetiv. 2014
A study examining how poor decision-making based on mental errors or cognitive biases hurts American foreign policy and national security.Author…
Steve A. Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders’ decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world.Tracing five U.S. national security episodes?the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading to the 9/11 attacks; the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq; and the development of U.S. energy policy?Yetiv reveals how a dozen cognitive biases have been more influential in impacting U.S. national security than commonly believed or understood.Identifying a primary bias in each episode?disconnect of perception versus reality, tunnel vision (“focus feature”), distorted perception (“cockeyed lens”), overconfidence, and short-term thinking?Yetiv explains how each bias drove the decision-making process and what the outcomes were for the various actors. His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making.Praise for National Security through a Cockeyed Lens“Yetiv’s volume could be one of the key books for presidents and their advisers to read before they begin making decisions.” —William W. Newmann, H-Diplo“The principles in this book deserve wide recognition. Yetiv places necessary focus on lapses in decision making that are important to acknowledge.” —James Lebovic, Political Science QuarterlyDon Troiani's Gettysburg: 36 Masterful Paintings and Riveting History of the Civil War's Epic Battle
Par Don Troiani, Tom Huntington. 2019
The latest book by preeminent Civil War artist and historian Don Troiani features 36 major paintings of the Gettysburg campaign…
and an introductory history of the battle by Civil War expert Tom Huntington. Each beautifully detailed and historically accurate painting is accompanied by a description of the scene and the historical figures taking part in the action.Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, & Trade Unionists
Par Gerald Horne. 2001
As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up…
the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences. This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the CSU strike and the resulting lockout of 1946. Gerald Horne draws extensively on primary materials and oral histories to document how limited a "threat" the Communist party actually posed in Hollywood, even as studio moguls successfully used the Red scare to undermine union clout, prevent film stars from supporting labor, and prove the moguls' own patriotism.Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg (Stackpole Military History Series)
Par Richard Rollins. 2005
• More than 150 firsthand accounts of the American Civil War, many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished •…
Includes accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock • Maps pinpoint each writer's location on the battlefield At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of history's most famous infantry assaults: Pickett's Charge. Using the participants' own words, Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett's, Pettigrew's, and Trimble's Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot, Rollins offers a comprehensive, panoramic view of the charge.Spanish Texas, 1519-1821: Revised Edition (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series)
Par Donald E. Chipman, Harriett Denise Joseph. 2010
Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast…
land. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. The first edition of Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 (1992) sought to emphasize the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with information on the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, the original volume covered major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of discoveries about Texas history since 1990. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence and extended control over their own lives. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on their own and others' research, the authors also provide more inclusive coverage of the role of women of various ethnicities in Spanish Texas and of the legal rights of women on the Texas frontier, demonstrating that whether European or Indian, elite or commoner, slave owner or slave, women enjoyed legal protections not heretofore fully appreciated.