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Does George Washington still matter? Best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all 13 former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.

The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.

In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.

A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery - setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.

When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash had taken place silently over the previous year, in obscure financial markets where the SEC doesn’t bother to look: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was actually happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.

When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic spiraled. When he lost, his era-defining case inspired a half-million people to protest against the Court. Today Bowers v. Hardwick continues to reverberate as the rights of privacy underpinning abortion, contraception, and same-sex relationships come under fire.

The incredible, untold true story of the 1952 Dallas Texans—the worst team in the craziest season in NFL history.
Rattlesnakes on the practice field, fist fights on the team plane, paternity suits, stadium fields covered in circus elephant dung, humiliating defeats, miraculous wins, and even a future Hall of Fame coach stealing a cab.

In The Product of Medicine, Caitjan Gainty traces the history of the early twentieth-century medical efficiency movement in the United States, restoring it as a significant driver of medicine’s modernization while also revealing its broader significance as a cultural force shaping modern American life. Covering a range of efficiency’s uses in medicine—from the assembly-line structure of the early Mayo Clinic and Henry Ford Hospital to the landmark Flexner Report and the prosecution of the American Medical Association as a monopoly.

Whether the term "Black Wall Street" is familiar to you or not, this new audiobook, Black to the Future: Lessons from Black Wall Street for Community and Economic Prosperity, will provide fresh insights into this community. Those insights include key takeaways for the present day. In it, we will explore in detail how specific Black business pioneers and neighborhood residents created a sustainable model for community growth and empowerment.

Pitkethly draws on decades of study in sociology, mental health counseling, and history to provide what he calls a “human-centered evaluation” of America’s origin story. He analyzes the country as one might a person—its family tree, family of origin, conception, birth, infancy, personality, character development, and current identity crisis.

How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures, come to be dominated by English speakers? How has it grappled with the stark contradictions between its ideals of liberty and the grim reality of genocide and slavery? How did this melting pot of peoples and ideas not only endure but rise to dominate global politics, commerce, culture and warfare?

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is a powerful and harrowing autobiography that chronicles the early life of Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and rose to become one of the most influential voices in the fight for abolition. First published in 1845, the book offers a firsthand account of the brutality and inhumanity of slavery, detailing Douglass’s experiences on plantations, his struggle to learn to read and write, and his courageous escape to freedom.

As of the publishing of the first edition in late October, 2021, over 700,000 people in the U.S. had died of Covid-19. 18 months earlier, on February 28, 2020, that number stood at 0. A week later, 11 people had died in the U.S. Given that and the news coming in from Europe, the author started to collect data and develop a website, covid19directions.com. By April 10, 2020, the number of dead was approaching 20,00o, and U.S. leadership and social behavior were clearly failing. A year later, a half million Americans had died from the virus. What went wrong? Why? Why, when we clearly saw the ...

Detroit's notorious Purple Gang had expansion plans in the northern woods of Michigan near its summer resorts. By 1929, Club Manitou was in operation, with a maze of escape tunnels surrounding its basement speakeasy. Northern Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay region has been a summer destination for wealthy Midwesterners since the 1880s. Many summer resort associations by the early 1900s had formed around the shoreline of the bay. This opened the door for the creation of a two-tiered system of law enforcement during the area’s summer months. Wealthy resorters from St. Louis, Chicago, ...

The complete journals of the 2020-21 Pandemic in the U.S., providing a day-by-day recounting of the political, social, and international dimensions of the virus' spread. Hundreds of charts and graphs together with hundreds of sources provide a rich tableau for understanding the political and social missteps that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the U.S.. The author's professional life as a data analysis and his personal life are interwoven to give further context.

Discover the incredible life of Andrew J. Poppleton and how he shaped Omaha's first fifty years. This biography will inspire and amaze you with its tales of perseverance, courage, and determination. * Explore the early days of Omaha through the eyes of A. J. Poppleton * Experience the challenges and triumphs of settling a new city * Learn about the fight for Omaha as the capital of the Nebraska Territory * Be inspired by A. J. Poppleton's unwavering dedication to the Union Pacific Railroad * Read the fascinating legal cases fought by Poppleton, including the Kidnapped Judge, the snowplow, ...

The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English. It disappeared without trace, defeating intense efforts to find it. One hundred and twelve men, women, and children were abandoned there. The only man to risk his life in the battle to get relief supplies to the colony was John White, Roanoke's unlikely choice for governor and, in the end, its sole survivor. This new account of the tragedy gives a convincing explanation of how the project was ...

Detroit's notorious Purple Gang had expansion plans in the northern woods of Michigan near its summer resorts. By 1929, Club Manitou was in operation, with a maze of escape tunnels surrounding its basement speakeasy. Northern Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay region has been a summer destination for wealthy Midwesterners since the 1880s. Many summer resort associations by the early 1900s had formed around the shoreline of the bay. This opened the door for the creation of a two-tiered system of law enforcement during the area’s summer months. Wealthy resorters from St. Louis, Chicago, ...

In 1915 the Ottoman Empire falters after dominating the Mediterranean region for six hundred years. As World War I explodes through Europe and heads east, the empire sides with the Central Powers, aligning itself against the United States. Ibrahim Öztürk, scion of a prominent Turkish family and proponent of democracy, will spend the next seventy-five years fighting to erase totalitarianism in the fledgling Turkish nation. The fight for a new Turkey will take Ibrahim, his sister Nebile, and his uncle, Rauf, across three continents. They’ll see the historic city of Constantinople ...

The complete journals of the 2020-21 Pandemic in the U.S., providing a day-by-day recounting of the political, social, and international dimensions of the virus' spread. Hundreds of charts and graphs together with hundreds of sources provide a rich tableau for understanding the political and social missteps that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the U.S.. The author's professional life as a data analysis and his personal life are interwoven to give further context.