496円 The long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These men are working to find and extract gold from the hard quartz rock in the Foothill Mountains of California. The tunnel that they were descending down wasn’t very...

3,715円 Historians generally portray the 1950s as a conservative era when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted domestic reform, crushed political dissent, and ended liberal dreams of social democracy. These years, historians tell us, represented a turn to the right, a negation of New Deal liberalism,...

150円 There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. This walking tour of Burlington, New Jersey is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural landmarks, cultural si...

4,378円 Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime, it has reflected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years, and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the ga...

3,714円 Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment,...

496円 What can you expect to learn about Henry Ford and the invention of the automobile in this book? First, you will learn a little more about Henry Ford himself. You will see what he was like as a kid and when it was that he first got interested in machines and in building cars. Did you know that He...

438円 Stan Paregien's Oklahoma Almanac of Facts & Humor: Part 1 - Achille to Nowata contains a boatload of historical information about the state of Oklahoma and its people. It contains so much information--facts, photos, prominent people and humorous stories--that it had to be divided into two parts. ...

3,315円 Canada and the United States. Two nations one border same continent. Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan examines how the American media has portrayed Canada from Confederation to Obamas election. By examini...

0円 Life on the Canadian prairies in the 1930s and 40s had its own special challenges. The Great Depression had driven Fred Stone from early retirement back to the farm with his young wife and two sons: Fred Jr. and Stan. They had no money. Vicious winds, blistering summers, and frigid winters, and d...

7,626円 Arguably one of the most significant periods in US history, the American Civil War era continues to fascinate. In this essential reference guide to the period, Hugh Tulloch examines the war itself, alongside the political, constitutional, social, economic, literary and religious developments and ...

11,275円 *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between ...

4,085円 The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil War. The words addressed by Gatewood to Ge...