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A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence contains biographies of individuals who wisely conceived, nobly planned and boldly achieved the independence of these United States.

A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.

In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century.

Previous studies of early Scottish emigration to the New World have tended to concentrate on the miseries of evictions and the destruction of old communities.

In lively fashion Mr.

This book examines the history of the Leeward Islands from their independence in 1670 to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Providing an exciting narrative of Reconstruction based on current scholarship, historical sources, as well as interpretive essays on special topics, this book offers real insight into a controversial and critical period in American history.

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.

In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times.

Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays.

A rich, fresh, anecdotal, and thoughtful account.

On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history.

Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region.

Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism.

Americans have been forced from their homes.

Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one.

During the 1960s and 1970s, teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history.

Founded on a triangle of land bounded by two mighty rivers, Pittsburgh has a long and storied chapter in American history.

This inspirational book "e;is a road map to reach the places in the soul which can give life meaning"e; (Marian Wright Edelman, New York Times-bestselling author of The Measure of Our Success).

A fully illustrated account of the Red Army's fierce April 1945 offensive meant to encircle and assault Berlin amidst desperate German resistance.

A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada.

Although commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest.

This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual experiences of Americans during and after the Civil War.

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One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism.

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true?

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values.

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "e;briar hopper,"e; "e;brush ape,"e; "e;ridge runner,"e; and "e;white trash"e;-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs.

The steadfast alliance between America and Europe represents one of the most important and complex political relationships in the modern world.

In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War.

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections.

By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony.

It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage.

Celebrated Upstate New York author Chuck D'Imperio takes readers on a unique tour of some of the most fascinating and little-known historic homes across the state.

Robert F.

From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us-and how it could unite usToday, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.

Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada.

"e; The South continues to be the most distinctive region in American politics.

When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals.

In this seminal work, Maureen Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people.

The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolation from international power politics, and so also to the long-standing American defiance of the Realist ideology that shaped Old World affairs.