20 век (до 1945 г.)

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America’s ‘first line of defense’ against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the Ame …

The Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books h …

In America’s Cold Warrior , James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving i …

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and re …

Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation’s consciousness, the media focused on a work …

When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang “See the USA in your Chevrolet, ” 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took t …

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay r …

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers This rare epistolary collection from the Civil War era preserves, amidst a recounting of the martial actions of the Iris …

Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. Survivalists star in reality TV shows; celebrities hawk emergency gear; and ordinary people stockpile essentials in the hope that they can outlast a slew of thr …

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral …