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Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis L. Gould (Author)Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to her husband. Lewis Gould's path-breaking study, however, presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edi...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Conboy (Author), James Morrison (Author)Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America's Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet's revolt against China--and eventually came to c...

Pearl Harbor Survivors: An Oral History of 24 Servicemen - Paperback

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by Harry Spiller (Author)On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American planes, damaged another 159, and sunk or seriously damaged 18 U.S. warships. The battleships Arizona and Oklahoma were sunk. The battleships California, West Virginia and Tennessee were badly damaged and would not rejoin the United States fleet for months. Over 2,400 Americ...

Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands - Paperback

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by John C. Fisher (Author)As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system of ditches dug by the Little River Drainage District--the largest in the U.S., excavating more earth than for the Panama Canal. Farming quickly took over. The devastati...

Men of Patriotism, Courage & Enterprise! Fort Meigs in the War of 1812 - Paperback

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by Larry L. Nelson (Author)The title of this fine book comes from a recruiting broadside published in Marietta, Ohio, July 29, 1812. The broadside was addressed "to men of patriotism, courage and enterprise" and promised five dollars a month pay plus 160 acres of land at the end of Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2009

The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney R. Cross (Author)"Burned-over District was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of development. It described the religious character of western New York during the first half of the nineteenth century. Time, subject, and area have thus all combined to confine the scope of this book. The study has nevertheless seemed rewarding, mainly because its implications transcend all three limitations....

Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine M. B. Osburn (Author), Katherine M. B. Osburn (Introduction by)After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme, women were to surrender the considerable autonomy they enjoyed ...

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

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Report copyright infringementby Hollis D. Stabler (Author), Victoria Smith (Editor)As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story--coming of age on the American pla...

The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People - Paperback

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by Karen I. Blu (Author), Karen I. Blu (Afterword by)How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly Indian customs come to be accepted--socially and legally--as Indians? Originally published in 1980, The Lumbee Problem traces the political and legal history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, arguing that Lumbee political activities have been powerfully affected by the interplay between...

North American Indians in the Great War - Paperback

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by Susan Applegate Krouse (Author)More than twelve thousand American Indians served in the United States military in World War I, even though many were not U.S. citizens and did not enjoy the benefits of enfranchisement. Using the words of the veterans themselves, as collected by Joseph K. Dixon (1856-1926), North American Indians in the Great War presents the experiences of American Indian veterans during World War I and after their return home. Dixon, a photographer, author, and Indian righ...

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda J. Child (Author), Brenda J. Child (Introduction by)The paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. T...

A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian - Paperback

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by Rosalio Moises (Author), William Curry Kelley (With), Jane Holden Kelley (Introduction by)"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative."-Booklist "A powerful chronicle. . . . It ...

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism

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Report copyright infringementby Devon a. Mihesuah (Author)Oklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others. Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves....

An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

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Report copyright infringementby Morris E. Opler (Author), Charles R. Kraut (Introduction by)Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, s...

Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

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Report copyright infringementby Rochelle Davis (Author)This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war.Author BiographyRochelle A. Davis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Number of Pages: 360 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date...

Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Croce Kelly (Author)If it weren't for Cy Avery's dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build. In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for "good roads" that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one...

Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846-1861

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Report copyright infringementby William S. Kiser (Author)In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army's perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region--newly acquired in the Mexican-American War--safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, William S. Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued...

American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs

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Report copyright infringementby Alison R. Bernstein (Author)The impact of World War II on Indian affairs was more profound and lasting than that of any other event or policy--including Roosevelt's Indian New Deal and efforts to terminate federal responsibility for tribes under Eisenhower. Focusing on the period from 1941 to 1947, Alison R. Bernstein explains why termination and tribal self-determination were logical results of the Indians' World War II experiences in battle and on the home fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Judy Nolte Temple (Author)The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became the "Silver Queen of the West." Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance. But Bab...

Droppers: America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Matthews (Author)Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn't one long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the goals behind its creation and the factors that eventua...

Natchitoches Colonials, a Source Book: Censuses, Military Rolls & Tax Lists, 1722-1803 - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Shown Mills (Author), Ellie Lennon (Author)The frontier outpost of Natchitoches was the oldest settlement in all the 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana Purchase. Natchitoches was built by France along the Texas border as a buffer against Spanish and Indian aggression. For the next century and a half, it would be the hub for colonial trade with the Southwestern tribes and then the gateway to the west for hordes of "Américains" seeking new land after the Revolution. Censuses, ta...

Once Upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II Volume 18

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Humphrey (Author)For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war.Once Upon a Time in War presents a stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier. Au...

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Lonetree (Author)Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how muse...

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by James Brown Campbell (Author), Mary Wickizer Burgess (Editor), Michael Burgess (Editor)ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI In the summer of 1819, Alexander Campbell and his family and their servants, along with other travelers, departed from the comparative comfort of their home in Highland County, Virginia, to set forth on a pio¬neering trek to the wilderness country of the Missouri Territory. James Brown Campbell, the family's eldest son, then only twenty years of age, began keeping a diary of the...

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by George Lincoln Rockwell (Author)George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) was that rarest of individuals: a man who embodied intelligence, wisdom, integrity, and courage. He was, in every sense of the word, a great communicator and a great leader. He harbored a vision of greatness for the White race, and he did everything in his power to realize that goal. Had he not been cut down by an assassin's bullet at the age of 49, he might have brought that vision well along the road to fruition.White Po...

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations - Paperback

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by Sharla M. Fett (Author)Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South. Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view of health and healing that was distinctly at odds with slaveholders' property concerns. While white slaveowners narrowly defined slave health in terms of "soundness" for labor,...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Cavender (Author)In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicin...

Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Sider (Author)With more than 40,000 registered members, the Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the country and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Despite the tribe's size, the Lumbee lack full federal recognition and their history has been marked by a struggle to articulate an Indian identity against the imposition of non-native definitions of Indianness. Gerald Sider explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the...

In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage - Paperback

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by Robert Campbell (Author)In Darkest Alaska Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Robert Campbell "Scholars of U.S. history will not want to miss this well-written and compelling book. . . . In Darkest Alaska illuminates a realm of potent anxieties about natives, nature, and national expansion which have shaped American culture and politics right down to the present day."--Louis S. Warren, author of Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show "A work of sweeping eruditio...

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Report copyright infringementby Georgia L. Fox (Author)"Fox provides important insights that will help historical archaeologists interpret tobacco-related finds and understand the multiple meanings of a commodity that has burned through the social, political, and economic fabric of the modern world."--Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking "Few artifacts illustrate the American experience as clearly as tobacco. Fox examines how tobacco and smoking reveal broade...

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Report copyright infringementby Milton Meltzer (Author)Dorothea Lange's depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer documents her development as an artist and provides a moving portrayal of a life burdened with illness and the conflicting demands of family and profession.Author BiographyMilton Meltzer is the author of many books of history and biography, four of...

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Report copyright infringementby David Tatham (Author)In this lavishly illustrated volume, David Tatham turns his eye to Winslow Homer's Adirondack oils, drawings, prints, and watercolors--more than a hundred pieces from the artist's many visits to the region between 1870 and 1910. Homer's affinity for this remote region of New York State lasted for forty years. No other place--not even Prout's Neck in Maine--held his attention as an artist for so long a period. Nearly every time he set out fo...