5,765円 An illuminating photographic tour of Henry Ford's famous Rouge plantーan industrial site that signifies an era's triumph in integrated manufacturing and economic progress. When Ford Motor Company was formed in 1903, its primary assembly plant was a wooden one-story wagon shop, but as the auto man...

1,320円 In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U.S. dominance by curbing dissent an...

777円 A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency. The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is...

2,647円 Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Da...

2,652円 The fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along with ...

5,306円 From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were wag...

496円 The Soul of the Indian By Eastman, Charles Alexander The classic historical description of the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the views of the settlers. Charles Alexander Eastman was a Native American writer, physician, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux ...

3,310円 “The United States does not do nation building,” claimed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld three years ago. Yet what are we to make of the American military bases in Korea? Why do American warships patrol the Somali coastline? And perhaps most significantly, why are fourteen “enduring bases” b...

1,921円 Fort Atkinson has been called the �top historical spot in Nebraska,� the �SAC of 1820,� and �America�s most important Western outpost.� Once the country�s largest fortress beyond the Missouri River, its garrison protected America�s interests in the burgeoning fur trade, provided a base camp for e...

2,110円 There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as...

777円 In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society,...

12,933円 Probationary Americans examines contemporary immigration rules and how they affect the make-up of immigrant communities. The authors' key argument is that immigration policies place race and class as important criteria for gaining entry to the United States, and in doing so, alter the makeup of A...