With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crime, this historical atlas provides a unique geographical perspective on the history of the South.
With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crim...
With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crime, this historical atlas provides a unique geographical perspective on the history of the South.
With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crim...
"American Revolution" looks at one of the most significant eras in American history through the eyes of its least famous, least studied citizens. It is an eye-opening collection of essays demonstrating how the wrenching transformation from English colonies to an emerging nation affected Americans from all walks of life.
"American Revolution" features the work of 14 accomplished social historians, whose findings are adding new dimensions to our understanding of the Revolutionary era. But some of the most fascinating contributions to this volume come from the people themselves--the...
"American Revolution" looks at one of the most significant eras in American history through the eyes of its least famous, least studied citizens. I...
Written by expert contributors drawing on extensive new research, "Early Republic: People and Perspectives" ranges across the broad spectrum of society to explore the everyday lives of Americans from the birth of the nation to the beginning of Jacksonian Age (roughly 1830).
In a series of chapters, "Early Republic" provides vivid portraits of the farmers, entrepreneurs, laborers, women, Native Americans, and slaves who made up the population of the United States in its infancy. Key events, such as the two-party political system, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the expansion...
Written by expert contributors drawing on extensive new research, "Early Republic: People and Perspectives" ranges across the broad spectrum of soc...
"This excellent book is required reading for anyone interested in how American presidents have tried to sell war."--Steven Casey, author of Selling the Korean War
"This is American history at its best--insightful and revealing about the past, yet at the same time illuminating the vital questions of our own day."--Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A&M University
George W. Bush's campaign for war in Iraq in 2003 drew attention to the ways in which an American president may try to "sell" a war. Of course, Bush was not the first to use his position and propaganda in this way, as the...
"This excellent book is required reading for anyone interested in how American presidents have tried to sell war."--Steven Casey, author of Sell...
Asks whether it is ever possible for a president to nudge the nation toward war without lying. And if he does, is it sometimes all right? Most of these authors would vote no. Columbia Journalism Review
It was a pleasant and poignant surprise to find an afterword written by the late David Halberstam, one of the best reporter-historians of the last century. It may be his last major piece of writing. . . . It is an appropriate way to wind up the collection, because his words are a sobering reminder that the press is important yet not all-powerful in a democracy. Presidents long...
Asks whether it is ever possible for a president to nudge the nation toward war without lying. And if he does, is it sometimes all right? Most of ...
Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Called Indian countrymen at the time, these intermarried white men moved into their wives villages in what is now Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. By doing so, they obtained new homes, familial obligations, occupations, and identities. At the same time, however, they maintained many of their ties to white American society and as a result entered the historical...
Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in ...
"In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders, slaves, raiders, and traders. This book will change the way you think about Florida history."--Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America "A marvelous read that offers new perspectives on old history."--Jerald T. Milanich, author of Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe "Reveals that Old Miami seems a lot like New Miami: a place bursting with energy and...
"In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders...
