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The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 2002

Seller ID: 318492

ISBN: 0195156269

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life--including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald compares Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Commanders-in-Chief. Douglas Wilson shows us the young Lincoln--not the strong leader of popular history, but a man who ...
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Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: National Geographic: January 2007

Seller ID: 325367

ISBN: 142620020X

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The letters provide a nostalgic timeline of American history told through the words and feelings of Americans, from regular folks to kings." --Star Gazette, Elmira, NY, Dec. '05

"There are more than 80 letters, reflecting both our history and our very American sense that when we speak, our president should listen." --The Arizona Republic, Dec. '05

Drawn from the extensive holdings of the National Archives--which includes all of the Presidential libraries--these carefully chosen letters remind us that ours is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the peopl...
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American History (Minipedias)

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Parragon Inc: March 2005

Seller ID: 336115

ISBN: 1405447613

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic

By: N/A

Price: $15.50

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College: September 1995

Seller ID: 344021

ISBN: 0070157383

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Hackett Pub Co: September 2003

Seller ID: 92945

ISBN: 0872206556

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here, in a single volume, is a selection of the classic critiques of the new Constitution penned by such ardent defenders of states' rights and personal liberty as George Mason, Patrick Henry, and Melancton Smith; pro-Constitution writings by James Wilson and Noah Webster; and thirty-three of the best-known and most crucial Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The texts of the chief constitutional documents of the early Republic are included as well.

David Wootton's illuminating Introduction examines the history of such American principles of governmen...
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Encyclopedia of World History: From the Stone Age to the 21st Century

By: N/A

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Backpack Books: January 2005

Seller ID: 336114

ISBN: 1405458968

Condition: Used - Very Good

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

By: N/A

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Bison Books: September 1995

Seller ID: 70258

ISBN: 0803272774

Condition: Used - Very Good

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.
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The Foxfire Book Set (Volumes 1-3)

By: N/A

Price: $29.00

Publisher: anchor:

Seller ID: 323520

ISBN: 281BPE1004923

Condition: Used - Very Good

Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee (True Crime History)

By: Ackermann, Ann Marie

Price: $8.50

Publisher: The Kent State University Press: September 2017

Seller ID: 334557

ISBN: 1606353047

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee's position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee's battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime....
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World War II (What Really Happened)

By: Alan Axelrod

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Fall River: 2008

Seller ID: 304290

ISBN: 1435163621

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $5.50

Publisher: HarperCollins: June 2008

Seller ID: 2551

ISBN: 0060936428

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Bantam: July 1993

Seller ID: 349643

ISBN: 0553296981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, bo...
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam: July 1993

Seller ID: 33225

ISBN: 0553296981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Diary of Anne Frank

By: Anne Frank

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Pan Books: January 1968

Seller ID: 15002

ISBN: 0330107372

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

By: Anne Frank

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Bantam: November 1994

Seller ID: 33561

ISBN: 055356983X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
"Tales from the Secret Annex" is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical...
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

By: Applebaum, Anne

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Anchor: August 2013

Seller ID: 342487

ISBN: 140009593X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

National Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer

In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. Iron Curtain describes how, spurr...
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Voices of a People's History of the United States

By: Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, Howard

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 327750

ISBN: 1583226281

Condition: Used - Very Good

Letter, poems, speeches, and essays are collected in this book that tells the story of the United States from the perspective of people left out of history books, such as women, workers, Native Americans, and Latinos. Original. 60,000 first printing.
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Braddock's Road: Mapping the British Expedition from Alexandria to the Monongahela (Military)

By: Baker, Norman L.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: The History Press: August 2013

Seller ID: 337144

ISBN: 162619114X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two army regiments set out from Alexandria with the objective of capturing Fort Duquesne, near present-day Pittsburgh. To transport their sizable train of artillery and wagons, they first had to build a road across the rugged Appalachian Mountains. It was almost 289 treacherous miles from Alexandria, Virginia, by way of Fort Cumberland in Maryland and on to the French fort; the road they built was one of the most impressive military engineering accomplishments of the eighteenth century. Historian Norman L. Baker chronicles the construction of the road...
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

By: Barry

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 2005

Seller ID: 5752

ISBN: 0143036491

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. "Monumental"-Chicago Tribune.

At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to...
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

By: Beck

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Threshold Editions: November 2013

Seller ID: 123483

ISBN: 1476764743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 bestselling author Glenn Beck gives us inspiring, courageous, and little-known stories from American history, from the Founders through September 11.

Don't miss the huge bestseller Miracles and Massacres, history as you've never heard it told and incredible events that you never knew existed.

HISTORY AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TOLD: TRUE AND THRILLING.

Thomas Edison was a bad guy--and bad guys usually lose in the end.

World War II radio host "Tokyo Rose" was branded as a traitor by the US government and served time in prison. In reality, she was a hero to many.

Twenty...
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