20 वीं शताब्दी (1945 तक)

The first complete history of US industry’s most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US ec …

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political con …

Of all the painful times in the history of our country there is no period harder or more painful for more people than the years that followed the close of the War Between the States. The thoughtless …

This remarkable group of essays describes the ‘culture wars’ that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range …

This powerful book reminds us of the enormous power the nation accords its political leaders and how in the significant period, 1897–1913, these leaders failed to meet their responsibilities. Their i …

In Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s , Michael Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from R …

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero, or back out as a cowar …

Winner of the Albert Castel Book Award Winner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award Winner of the Civil War Books and Authors Book of the Year Award In Soldiers from Experience, Eric …

Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln’s 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of violence, students g …

In his private journals, Franklin Archibald Dick, a St. Louis attorney, Union officer, and provost marshal general, wrote of his concerns about keeping Missouri pro-Union during the turbulent Civil W …