12,103円 The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare ...

280円 *Includes the entire text of Cleburne's 1864 letter proposing to free the Confederacy's slaves.*Includes pictures of Cleburne and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes maps of the battles Cleburne fought in, including Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge.*Includes a Bibl...

2,652円 The Ringling Brothers began their business under the most modest of circumstances and through hard work, business savvy, and some luck created the largest, most famous circus in the world. They became wealthy men, one 50 cent admission ticket at a time. Ringlingville USA chronicles the brothers' ...

2,248円 The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the ni...

500円 In 1864 when construction of the transcontinental railroad was begun the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were a "whole country" apart. Although the Union Pacific faltered at first, taking three years to cross Nebraska, the incentives of land grants and government bonds for completed m...

661円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS TO GOLDEN DAYS PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION INTRODUCTION A HISTORY OF PANICS IN THE UNITED STATES THE PANIC OF 1814 THE PANIC OF 1825-26 THE PANIC OF 183l THE PANIC OF 1848 THE PANIC OF 1857 THE PANIC OF 1864 THE PANIC OF 1873 THE PANIC OF 18...

5,355円 In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fort...

330円 Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the best known Union general of the Civil War and a former president of the United States. Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil is a wonderful overview of Grants life, from his ancestry to his war campaigns, and his se...

164円 A look at the Armories at Norwich CT. at their peak production during the height of the American Civil War.

933円 In Light Horse Harry Lee, Charles Royster tells the story of a man whose career embodies the visionary promises that inspired the American Revolution, as well as the inability of the revolutionary generation to put all its ideals into practice. The man is Henry Leeーsoldier (nicknamed “Light-Hors...

12,269円 Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...

3,315円 The inaugural volume in a new historiography series Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier his...