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Author: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of la ...

Author: Michael Cox

In this timely and compelling new volume, Michael Cox aims to analyse the whole of the Bush era in a broader historical context. In a cogent and carefully argued analysis, he uncovers some of the fundamental assumptions ...

Author: Michael Cox

In this timely and compelling new volume, Michael Cox aims to analyse the whole of the Bush era in a broader historical context. In a cogent and carefully argued analysis, he uncovers some of the fundamental assumptions ...

Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the p ...

Author: Michael Savage & Pete Larkin

Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama a ...

Author: Peggy Pascoe

A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States-laws that banned in ...

Author: Bill O'Reilly

When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future.

Since that time, America has changed rapidly--some would eve ...

Author: Mark Lane

Mark Lane tried the only U.S. court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on ...

Author: William Sterne Randall

Both a rousing adventure story and a testament to the spirit of democracy, Ethan Allen is the landmark biography of a man whose temper and philosophy helped define a nation. William Sterne Randall gives us the first comp ...

Author: Frederick J. Libby

"Godsent" is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a heart-pounding plot and emotional resonance th ...

Author: Arthur S. Lefkowitz

On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. This attack threw Washington's army into turmoil and led to an American r ...

Author: Laurence Bergreen

He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the ...

Author: Ray Raphael

With the entry of the Tea Party onto the US political scene, America's Constitution has become a political battleground, with liberals and conservatives trading fire over its meaning and intent. Amid all the hubbub, hist ...

Author: Chris McNab

"America's Elites" takes the reader through some of the most dramatic special forces operations in US history, from sniping British commanders during the Revolutionary War to Riverine incursions in the Mekong Delta in Vi ...

Author: Alan Brinkley

Connect students to the "experience" of history. Connect students to "success" in history."American History" shows students that history is not just a collection of names and dates, but an ongoing story, which teaches us ...

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Author: Louise Barnett

For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken with the myth and the so ...

Author: K Paul Johnson

A Genealogical Quest in the Triracial South

"I never met a Johnson cousin until I was forty-seven, the year I met dozens." -- K. Paul Johnson

What began as genealogical research into the author's ancestry soon grew ...

Author: Mark Stein

Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?

We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddit ...

Author: Landy

"Landy's book is a useful blessing...[The book] raises queries on the uses of historical films, their genres, and what they are meant to convey, in a way that opens the reader to inquiry into current theoretical bases fo ...

Author: Jane Baldwin Cotton

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