Abad 20 hingga 1945

When Theodore Roosevelt became president at age forty-two upon the assassination of William Mc Kinley, he was the youngest President to have ever served then and now – and was father to six children, …

When Confederates from Canada set fire to New York City hotels, Anathea awakens Raiford to help her rescue two children whose father dies. Raiford takes the orphans to their grandparents in Canada wh …

Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a comp …

James Longstreet stood with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the great triumvirate of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought from First Manassas through Appomattox and served as Lee’s senior …

Roell uses company records and the popular press to chronicle the piano industry through changing values, business strategies, economic conditions, and technology. For Roell, as for the industry, mus …

The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed. The author explains the ear …

This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders–and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentuc …

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, ‘outline’ volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americ …

The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a lar …

This is a book about the strategy and politics of the Reagan administration–a watershed in U.S. history. It is the record of how the president established and implemented the strategy that would ult …