Farmers Without Farms

Donald L Winters

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• A systematic examination of Midwestern land tenancy, this book is based on extensive research in manuscript censuses and county records, including tho... Lees meer

Portrait of an Abolitionist

Charles E Heller

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 167
• George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer. He personally owned the 200 Sharps rifles Brown brought to Harper's ... Lees meer

African America and Haiti

Chris Dixon

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 186
• While much has been written about the antebellum African American interest in emigration to Africa, the equally significant interest in Haitian emigra... Lees meer

The South Is Another Land

Bruce L. Clayton, John A. Salmond

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• One might argue as to whether `the South is another land' or only a separate verse in the American song. There should be little argument over the usef... Lees meer

At Home on the Range

J Wunder

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. Th... Lees meer

Democracy Reformed

Bernard Hirschhorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 174
• Depicts Childs as an archetype of reform in the Progressive Era. Lees meer

The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 203
• The year 2002 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of General George Rogers Clark. In celebrating Clark's life, this book presents new informatio... Lees meer

Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America

Jacob Henry Dorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 181
• Despite an anti-religious reputation and the anti-religious worldview of many members, the American Socialist movement held a primarily religious and ... Lees meer

The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s

Matthew Ware Coulter

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 177
• The Munitions Inquiry, often called the Nye Committee after its chairperson, Senator Gerald Nye, critically examined the pre-World War II military-ind... Lees meer

The Home-Front War

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 161
• This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from macro studies (the ... Lees meer

Voluntarism, Planning, and the State

Jerold Brown, Patrick Reagan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• Voluntarism, Planning, and the State presents a series of case studies of the planning process in the context of modern American history in the period... Lees meer

A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky

Richard D Sears

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• Relates a major social and educational experiment in race relations in 19th-century Kentucky. Lees meer

Brand of Infamy

Charles Pinnegar

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 194
• Historians have labeled John Buchanan Floyd a traitor and a coward for his actions during the Civil War, and this view has persisted largely unchallen... Lees meer

Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy

Stuart Knee

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 154
• The thesis of this study is that Christian Science was a manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the Civil War. The age in which ... Lees meer

Expectations for the Millennium

Peter H. Buckingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 192
• Early in the twentieth century, American socialists dared to dream of a future based on cooperation rather than competition. Socialism was a movement ... Lees meer

Developing Dixie

Winfred Moore, Joseph Tripp, Lyon Tyler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Written by both wel... Lees meer

The Journalist as Reformer

Richard Digby-Junger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 168
• Henry Demarest Lloyd was one of the post-bellum 19th-century's best known journalists and non-fiction writers. In fact, only E.L. Godkin exceeded Lloy... Lees meer

To Free a People

Gary Dean Best

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 98
• To Free A People describes the earliest beginnings of the influential Jewish lobby: the efforts of Jewish leaders to generate an American response to ... Lees meer

The Great Red Menace

Peter L Steinberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• During the years 1947-1952 the Cold War, the anti- communist foreign policy of the U.S. government, and the reassertion by the American Communist part... Lees meer

American Revolutionary

William L Macdougall

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• A chronicle of McDougall's achievements as a soldier who rose to the highest rank in the Army, as a politician who became a member of the Continental ... Lees meer

Truman, Palestine, and the Press

Bruce J Evensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History
• In this absorbing book, Bruce J. Evensen analyzes the role of the mass media, public opinion, and the Zionists in the evolution of America's Palestine... Lees meer

Members of the Regiment

Michele J Nacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 187
• Many extraordinary women traveled west with their Army officer husbands between 1865 and 1890 and discovered a world that was completely controlled by... Lees meer

The Tormented President

Robert E Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 197
• Although Calvin Coolidge is widely judged to have been a weak and even an incompetent president, this study concludes that he was a leader disabled by... Lees meer

The Moment of Decision

John McKivigan, Randall M. Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in American History | nr. 156
• Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historical ... Lees meer