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  • "A New Kind of War"

    America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

    by Howard Jones ...
    America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during the mid-1960's. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • "All Governments Lie"

    The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

    Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices.In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

    Navigating the Century of Flight

    Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as ... Read more

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  • "Country Music is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is": Opryland U.S.A. and the Importance of Home in Country Music

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

    by Jeremy Hill ...
    Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff."When the Opry changed sites it wasn't without a good deal of growing pains, angst, and rhetoric—but ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • "I Hear America Singing"

    Folk Music and National Identity

    Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American spirituals to English ballads and protest songs--renders the imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component of our ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • "I Sure Wish this Dam Thing Was Over"

    The WWII Letters And Experiences Of Private Carl E. Meyers

    This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers, an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic training and from Europe. This volume traces his military experiences from 1940 to 1944, showing how an average American went through registering for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • "Let Us Vote!"

    Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment

    The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age“Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built a movement for the 26th Amendment to the US ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • "Live from Cape Canaveral"

    Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today

    “From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. ‘Live from Cape Canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history.” –Neil ArmstrongSome fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender"

    Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression

    During the Great Depression, the proliferation of local taxpayers’ associations was dramatic and unprecedented. The justly concerned members of these organizations examined the operations of state, city, and county governments, then pressed local officials for operational and fiscal reforms. These associations aimed to reduce the cost of state and local governments to make operations more ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • "One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964

    Based on classified Soviet archives, including the files of Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB, "One Hell of a Gamble" offers a riveting play-by-play history of the Cuban missile crisis from American and Soviet perspectives simultaneously.No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • "Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

    by Nadine Hubbs ...
    In 2004 Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene with 'Redneck Woman.' The blockbuster single led to the early release of her first CD and propelled it to triple platinum sales."Gretchen Wilson celebrates a new kind Virile Woman on the country music scene—but this subtle gender analysis reveals much more than immediately meets the eye.This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • "Se conoce que usted es 'Moderna'"

    Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana de Nueva York (1920-1940)

    Series Book 63 - Tiempo emulado. Historia de América y España
    Este libro aborda las formas de subjetivación que intervenían en las experiencias de feminidad de las mujeres de la colonia hispana de Nueva York, a partir del estudio de la publicidad, las páginas femeninas y las cartas de las lectoras publicadas en el semanario Gráfico , el diario La Prensa y la revista cultural Artes y Letras . ¿Qué idea de feminidad promovían estas publicaciones? ¿Cómo se ... Read more

    $43.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Good War"

    An Oral History of World War II

    by Studs Terkel ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe).“The Good War”is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "To Everything There is a Season"

    Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler describes how Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • "Uncool and Incorrect" in Chile

    The Nixon Administration and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

    The military coup that toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 led to one of the most repressive military dictatorships in Latin American history. Although the coup's full origin remains one of the great mysteries of the Cold War, most assume that powers in Washington were largely to blame, given the long history of U.S. interventionism in Latin America. These assumptions were only ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • "When is Daddy coming home?"

    An American Family during World War II

    World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family's home in Janesville, Wisconsin. That moment, when Haney learned of his father's death in the final months of fighting, changed his and his mother's lives forever.In this emotionally powerful book, Haney, now a professional historian, explores the impact of war on an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • "Yellow Kid" Weil

    The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler

    by J.R. Weil ...
    This book is fun, fun, fun. The exploits of the worldly and wise Yellow Kid make for can't-put-down reading.We hope that bookbuyers will welcome the return of the Nabat series. We have gotten numerous requests over the years to resume the series and hope stores will be excited.Like other Nabat titles, the potential audience for the book is huge. Like Jack Black's You Can't Win, you can't go wrong ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • $TEEL DREAM$

    Adventures of Lisa Fuls, #1

    by Alan Jenkins ...
    Series Book 1 - Adventures of Lisa Fuls
    In the book, which “reads like a 1930s black-and-white movie,” the Great Depression begins to silence the Roaring Twenties while Charles Schwab, Eugene Grace, and James Campbell dream of merging Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube into a mighty steel company. Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland, a dapper financial dynamo, has his own dream of industrial power and stands in their way. The parties hire ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • '78

    The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City

    by Bill Reynolds ...
    Now in paperback: the inside story behind a crucial chapter in Red Sox lore-and a turbulent time in a troubled city.George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff game that would send one team to the World Series-and render the other cursed for almost a quarter of a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 'Sprutz'. In den Fängen der NVA.

    Dieser spannend erzählte Bericht schildert die Erlebnisse des 18jährigen Wehrpflichtigen Tannhoff in der Nationalen Volksarmee, drei Jahre vor dem Fall der Mauer. Der Autor hat als Zeitzeuge die Lebensverhältnisse in einer streng geheimen Raketeneinheit kennengelernt; Verhältnisse, die selbst vielen ehemaligen DDR-Bürgern schwer vorstellbar sind. Psychoterror und methodische Persönlichkeitsausschaltung ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?'

    Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country

    by Kevin Mattson ...
    At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter's presidency, he gave a speech that should have changed the country, instead it led to his downfall and ushered in the rise of the Conservative movement in America. Kevin Mattson gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the weeks leading up to the speech, a period of great upheaval in the US: the energy crisis had generated mile-long gas lines, inciting suburban ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 'Whom We Shall Welcome'

    Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965

    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    A history of the Italians who came to the United States after World War II, and how American immigration policy was transformed.Whom We Shall Welcome examines post-World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in Twentieth Century Houston

    A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City USA

    Series series Latinx Studies
    What does it mean to be Mexican American in Houston, TX?For the Mendoza-Martinez family, the answer to this question is complicated and evolving. In this fascinating memoir, author Dr Louis Mendoza tells his family’s story over three generations, exploring the ongoing efforts to negotiate intense racialization in Texas. Examining questions of community, belonging and home, migrancy, and social ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • (Re)imagining African Independence

    Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

    Series Book 8 - Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
    The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic and audio-visual imaginaries both during and after the Estado Novo regime, examining political ... Read more

    $72.99 USD