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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

A compilation of little known events and forgotten heroes

That’s Not In My American History Book

Lisa Brooks

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New History of King Philip's War

"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.

Our Beloved Kin

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Gary Paulsen

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Life Remembered

So many readers have written and asked: What happened to Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn? Extraordinary things happened to her, from the moment she fled the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away children, until she found them and began a new life. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of trial, tragedy, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s. From the Hardcover edition.

Sarny

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A History of Multicultural America

A Different Mirror

Harry S. Dent

How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History

The New York Times best-selling author of The Roaring 2000s guides listeners through the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead. The years 2009 and 2010 will be the initial end of prosperity in almost every market, ushering in a downturn like most of us have not experienced before. Renowned economic forecaster Harry S. Dent, Jr. has developed analytical techniques that allow him to predict the impact of economic trends, including the following: The economy appears to recover from the subprime crisis and minor recession by mid-to-late 2009 "the calm before the real storm." Stock prices start to crash again between mid-to-late 2009 into late 2010, and likely finally bottom around mid 2012 - between Dow 3,800 and 4,500. The economy enters a deeper depression between mid 2010 and early 2011, likely extending off and on into late 2012 or mid 2013. Asian markets may bottom by late 2010, along with health care, and be the first great buy opportunities in stocks. The next broad-based global bull market from 2020-2023 into 2035-2036. Conventional investment wisdom will no longer apply, and investors must drastically reevaluate their policies in order to survive. Dent offers long and short-term recommendations that will allow families, businesses, investors, and individuals to manage their assets correctly and come out on top rather than get caught in a downward spiral.

The Great Depression Ahead

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Zitkala-Sa

California

A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture

Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.

American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings

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Walter Swan

Fair/Good Condition. The book is fair due to the book jacket having heavy use over the years . The internal pages inside the book are in good condition . 
Please see attached Photos.

Author: Walter Swan

Book Description
A story about two boys growing up on the old family homestead in Cochise County when Arizona was an infant state.

Product information
Publisher	‎Swan Enterprises; 2nd edition (January 1, 1989)
Language	‎English
Hardcover	‎287 pages
ISBN-10	‎092717605X
ISBN-13	‎.        978-0927176057
Item Weight	‎1 pounds

Me 'n Henry

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Overall Good Condition. Minor bent on front cover. Please see attached Photos.

Year 1971 released 

About : From the turn of the century to the time of the New Deal, black American writers approached the race problem in terms that were unmistakably those of the American dream of success. A belief in infinite progress, material accomplishment, and economic and educational opportunity-in short, the Horatio Alger myth-was the stuff of the Negro solution to his own predicament.

In this selection of articles from periodical literature of the period, Miss Sochen illustrates the various facets of the American dream as they were utilized by blacks. Intellectuals hoped to effect significant changes in race relations by publicizing the terrible conditions of Negro life and appealing to the moral conscience of white America. Men as politically different as W. E. B.
DuBois and Booker T. Washington were united in their concerns and in their dream of a better America.

The Black Man and the American Dream 1971

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#paperback #history #AmericanHistory #America 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

History

The American Journey, a cornerstone series for the U.S. History market, successfully blends the coverage of political and social histories of our great nation throughout the series. With this focus, the authors show that our attempt to live up to our American ideals is an ongoing journey. This journey, while still a work in progress, is increasingly more inclusive of different groups and ideas. The path that led the authors to The American Journey began in the classroom with their students. The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students. The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American Journey. American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context. This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

The American Journey

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Howard Zinn

Rebecca Stefoff

Texas

Columbus to the War on Terror

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

A Young People's History of the United States

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#AmericanHistory #America #AmericanCulture #Images #BoxedSeries #softcover


Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

TIME Life Book Series

The Fabulous Century

Doug J. Swanson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker

"Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on a combination of vision, determination, and brutal expediency. His formula was simple: run a good business, cultivate the big boys, kill your enemies, and own the cops. Through a mix of cold-bloodedness, native intelligence, folksiness, and philanthropy, Binion became one of the most revered figures in the history of gambling, and his showmanship, shrewdness, and violence would come to dominate the Vegas scene. Veteran journalist Doug J. Swanson uses once-secret government documents and dogged reporting to show how Binion destroyed his rivals and outsmarted his adversaries--including J. Edgar Hoover"--

Blood Aces

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Thomas Jefferson

"The Portable Thomas Jefferson," edited by Merrill D. Peterson, is a meticulously curated collection of writings by one of America's founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. This portable edition offers readers a comprehensive insight into the profound intellect and visionary ideas of Jefferson, featuring his letters, speeches, and key documents that shaped the United States. Peterson's expert curation ensures that this book is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the political philosophy and contributions of this iconic figure in American history.

Edited by Merrill D. Peterson

Presents a collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson.

The Portable Thomas Jefferson

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Revised & Updated Edition 

The Almanac Of American History 

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#hardcover #americanhistory #military #militaryhistory #foreignpolicy #revolutionarywar #civilwar #ww1 #ww2 #firstedition

This book is in good vintage condition. Minimal wear to spine and binding, though they are beginning to separate at the bottom. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has some tears, particularly at the top, with some mild discoloration and staining on the back cover of the jacket. First Edition, first printing, published in 1973.

". . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." ―History

"A particularly timely account." ―Kansas City Times

"It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." ―Perspective


Minnesota

A history of the United States military strategy and policy

The American Way of War

James A. Henretta

Rebecca Edwards

Robert O. Self

Eric Hinderaker

Book has some wear from usage. Glue from sticker on back.

Virginia

Known for its interpretive voice, balanced analysis, and brief-yet-comprehensive narrative, America: A Concise History helps students to make sense of it all while modeling the kind of thinking and writing they need to be successful. Offering more value than other brief books, America is competitively priced to save your students money, and features built-in primary sources and new ways of mastering the content so your students can get the most out of lecture and come to class prepared. The sixth edition rolls out Bedford/St. Martin’s new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your fingertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It’s the best content joined up with the best technology. What's in the LaunchPad

America: a Concise History, Combined Volume

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Robert A. Caro

In good condition. Shows signs of shelf wear. See photos for details.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.
 
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.
 
We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate--coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon--raised in one of the country's most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father's slide into failure and financial ruin--lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate "impossible" goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.

We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable "Mr. Sam" Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . .
 
Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal's "connection" in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines.
 
We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and "nauseating loneliness" of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ.
 
Here is Lyndon Johnson--his Texas, his Washington, his America--in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

The Path to Power

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#paperback #history #historical #historicalfiction #americanhistory A black day in American History, and a day that changed the world and it’s history. But there were many other days and events before and after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor that have, for thirty-five years, been covered under a cloak of secrecy and deceit. This books is an attempt to tell the true, untold story of those days and the people who played a major roles in the Pearl Harbor disaster…. and it’s shameful, blameful cover-up!  This is a story of diplomatic subtleties, international espionage and intrigue, sabotage, stupidity, deceit, and such criminal activities as rewritten cables, destroyed dispatches, mutilated records, and “reorganized” files. It is a story that rewrites a tragic page in our history books.                                                       first printing September 1976 


Ohio

The Pearl Harbor Cover-Up

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Utah

An Oral History Of 9/11

Now with a new afterword, Garrett M. Graff's instant New York Times bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky, the comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 hailed as “history as its most immediate and moving” (Jon Meacham), “remarkable…a priceless civic gift” (The Wall Street Journal), and “incredibly evocative and compelling” (The Washington Post). Hailed as “remarkable…incredibly evocative and compelling” (The Washington Post) and “oral history at its finest” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky is the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet, comprised of never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, and original interviews and stories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members. Here is a vivid, profound, and searing portrait of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives.

Only Plane in the Sky

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#history #nonfiction #militaryfiction #militaryhistory #war #biography #Asia #historical #Americanhistory

Connecticut

The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story -- the Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company

“What would you want if you could have any wish?” asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his interviewer. The photographer snapped his picture, which became the iconic Korean War image featured on this book’s jacket. “Give me tomorrow,” he said at last. After nearly four months of continuous and agonizing combat on the battlefields of Korea, such a simple request seemed impossible. For many men of George Company, or “Bloody George” as they were known—one of the Forgotten War’s most decorated yet unrecognized companies—it was a wish that would not come true. This is the untold story of “Bloody George,” a Marine company formed quickly to answer its nation’s call to duty in 1950. This small band of men—a colorful cast of characters, including a Native American fighting to earn his honor as a warrior, a Southern boy from Tennessee at odds with a Northern blue-blood reporter-turned-Marine, and a pair of twins who exemplified to the group the true meaning of brotherhood—were mostly green troops who had been rushed through training to fill America’s urgent need on the Korean front. They would find themselves at the tip of the spear in some of the Korean War’s bloodiest battles. After storming ashore at Inchon and fighting house-to-house in Seoul, George Company, one of America’s last units in reserve, found itself on the frozen tundra of the Chosin Reservoir facing elements of an entire division of Chinese troops. They didn’t realize it then, but they were soon to become crucial to the battle—modern-day Spartans called upon to hold off ten times their number. Give Me Tomorrow is their unforgettable story of bravery and courage. Thoroughly researched and vividly told, Give Me Tomorrow is fitting testament to the heroic deeds of George Company. They will never again be forgotten.

Give Me Tomorrow

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Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.

Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.

This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.

Black Elk Speaks

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Rush Limbaugh

Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans

Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

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Laura Hillenbrand

New Jersey

An American Legend

Seabiscuit

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Jeff Guinn

The Real Story of the Shootout at the O. K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West

A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches, and the citizens of Tombstone.

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