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The chosen peoples
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Todd Gitlin |
Outlines a new approach to understanding the relationship between the United States and Israel, explaining that both nations embrace a philosophy that they were divinely chosen to influence the world… |
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Race for empire
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Takashi Fujitani |
"Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobil… |
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Because we are Americans
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Jessica Papin,Jesse Kornbluth |
This is a book for all of us who need to remember and be inspired anew by our response to that terrible day. This collection--made up of postings on the Internet, words from our leaders and the media… |
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Reimagining equality
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Anita Hill |
"In 1991, Anita Hill's courageous testimony during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings sparked a national conversation on sexual harassment and women's equality in politics and the workplace. T… |
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A sovereign people
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Carol Berkin |
"Americans like to believe that the Constitution miraculously brought the United States into being, as though the framers established, in one stroke, the nation we know today. Yet when George Washing… |
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Hemispheric imaginings
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Gretchen Murphy |
Summary:In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined … |
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Taíno revival
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Gabriel Haslip-Viera |
"This stimulating and timely collection examines the Taino revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the… |
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A nation without borders
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Steven Hahn |
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of t… |
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White working class
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Williams, Joan |
"Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside lo… |
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American Future
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Simon Schama |
This book examines the history of American exceptionalism tht means so much to it's people but has led into calamaties as well as triumphs. With the election of a new president in November 2008, the … |
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Fiery Gospel
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Richard M. Gamble |
Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent an… |
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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World
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Lindsey R. Swindall |
The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depress… |
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Sealed with blood
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Sarah J. Purcell |
"Sealed with Blood makes a significant and original contribution to the growing literature on the creation of American nationalism and on the power of historical memory. The understand how military e… |
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