Specific wars and campaigns

A social-developmental psychologist and a social anthropologist describe what is known and what needs to be investigated concerning the development of race and color concepts in young children.

In 1961, the U.

Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended Americas involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam.

Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918.

Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval.

It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943.

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history.

In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law.

German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger.

When it came to the Civil War, Michiganians never spoke with one voice.

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field.

In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict.

"e;When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed.

Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.

The American Civil War was a crucial event in the development of Chicago as the metropolis of the heartland.

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union.

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

"e;When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed.

For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilsons charge to make the world safe for democracy carried life-or-death meaning.

With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps the last all-white branch of the U.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals they are fought by soldiers.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.

The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field.

In the quarter century after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States.

Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval.

This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government would mean for the slaveholding states.

Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended Americas involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government would mean for the slaveholding states.

"e;Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,"e; David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country.

In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia.

In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia.

Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston's new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

First serious examination of the curious demise of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler that also investigates an extraordinary web of secret deals and international intrigue.

This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.

This fourth volume of a five-part policy history of the U.

'Excellent' Antony Beevor'Saul David is a brilliant historian .

The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals they are fought by soldiers.

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J.

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J.

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.

Experience the pain, the pride, and the triumph of the Marine Corps

All the members of 1st Lt.