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The Mirrors of Washington
Anonymous
Paperback - $44.95
1921. With fourteen cartoons by Cesare and fourteen portraits. A collection of biographical notes on the following: Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, George Harvey (Brinton McClellan), Charles Evans Hughes, Edward Mandell House, Herbert Clark Hoover ...
Anarchist Voices : An Oral History of Anarchism in America
Paul Avrich
Paperback - $86.95
Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In "Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This abridged edition co ...
Between Two Empires : Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Eiichiro Azuma
Hardcover - $159.95
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group held unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires pro ...
Between Two Empires : Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Eiichiro Azuma
Paperback - $53.95
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires pro ...
The 1900s
Bob Batchelor
Hardcover - $128.95
Spurred by the energy and progressive attitude of President Theodore Roosevelt and millions of immigrants flooding into our cities, American life saw tremendous change from 1900-1910. This volume offers a wealth of information on popular culture at t ...
The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence
Raymond J. Batvinis
Hardcover - $80.95
As the world prepared for war in the 1930s, the United States discovered that it faced the real threat of foreign spies stealing military and industrial secrets--and that it had no established means to combat them. Into that breach stepped J. Edgar H ...
Hell on Wheels : The Promise and Peril of America's Car Culture, 1900-1940
David Blanke
Hardcover - $70.95
The emergence of the automobile on the American scene represented many things--excitement, freedom, progress--but also danger, death, and injury. David Blanke tells how the automobile pulled society in two contradictory emotional directions: exhilara ...
Signs of Resistance : American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
Susan Burch
Paperback - $44.95
During the nineteenth century, American schools for Deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an ...
Public Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough
Paperback - $26.95
Both a hugely satisfying entertainment and a groundbreaking work with powerful echoes in today's news, Burrough's account of America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI is the definitive history of America's first war on crime. Black-and-w ...