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The age of Jackson
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
This volume by the great American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger embraces the Age of Andrew Jackson from its inception to its influence upon the history of our country. It captures the historical, c… |
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Shamrock and sword
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Robert Ryal Miller |
xv, 232 p. : 22 cm |
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A History of US-All the People 1945-1996 #10
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Joy Hakim |
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
In the years after WWII, America became the worlds greatest power. All the … |
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A disease in the public mind
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Thomas J. Fleming |
Why was the United States the only nation in the world to fight a war to end slavery? Fleming looks at the reasons of why the Civil War was fought, and shows that the polarization that divided the No… |
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Man's better angels
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Philip F. Gura |
Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic… |
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De la démocratie en Amérique
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Gustave de Beaumont,Alexis de Tocqueville |
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil… |
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What Hath God Wrought
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Daniel Walker Howe |
A social and political history of the United States from the end of the War of 1812 to the End of the Mexican-American War. |
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American notes
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Charles Dickens |
Description of a trip by the famous British novelist Charles Dickens to the U.S. in the early 1840s, which included travel through the Great Lakes states. The first and last portions of the book are … |
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