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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his oft-forgotten contemporary, Henry Manne, whose theories justified...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent in World War II-era Boston find themselves led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime, and domestic fascism -- one that implicates their own tangled pasts and threatens to expose a larger pattern of conspiracy than either of them could have imagined.
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxxix, 327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in high school and college classrooms to teach students that American history is nothing more than a litany of oppression, slavery, and exploitation. Zinn's history is popular, but it is also massively wrong. Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Adam Gamal, one of the only Muslim Arab Americans to serve inside "the Unit," comes a firsthand account of our nation's most secretive military group. When Adam arrived in the United States at the age of nineteen, he spoke no English, and at 5'1" and 112 pounds, he was far from what you might expect of a soldier. But compelled into service by a debt he felt he owed to his new country, he rose through the ranks of the military to become one of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Ady, who is enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, is separated from her mother, she meets Lenore, a free Black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in a deeply evangelical family, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. McCammon was a rule-follower and--most of the time--a true believer. But through it all, she was increasingly plagued by fears and deep questions as the belief system she'd been carefully taught clashed with her expanding understanding of the outside world. After spending her early adult life striving to make sense of an...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file (11 hr., 8 min.))
Language
English
Description
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented...
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""Confederate Privateer" is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall of Virginia, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. A resident of Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Harpers Ferry, Beall was a witness and a militia participant in the trial of John Brown and his execution in 1859. Beall later signed on as a private in the Confederate army...
10) The Siege of Vicksburg: climax of the campaign to open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 724 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The capture of Vicksburg by the US Army was one of the most important military events of the American Civil War because it opened the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in two. The siege operations in and of themselves have a lot to offer to our understanding of the campaign and the war: the extent of the operations, the complexity of the strategy and tactics, the grueling nature of the day-by-day participation, and the effect on all involved....
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future world leadership - territorial, economic, political, and cultural - provided a vitally important, underappreciated motivation to form an independent Confederate republic. In Colossal Ambitions,...
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 179 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a prominent historian recently noted in the Washington Post, 'The common understanding of the Prohibition Era is based more on folklore than fact.' This volume aims to correct common misconceptions about American prohibition in ten essays from scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the era. Each contributor unravels one myth and reveals the historical evidence that supports, refutes, or complicates a deeply embedded...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug...
Author
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
v, 193 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from the fields of history, philosophy, cognitive science, sociology, and literary theory, and quoting chilling contemporary accounts, historian Guy Lancaster argues that the act of lynching encompasses five distinct but overlapping types of violence"--
"Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population...
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Americans conducted their lives with the presumption that everyone could make legal claims to textiles. This chapter explains that situation, exploring the customary practices that, by the time of the American Revolution, had cohered into legal principles, which allowed people without rights-even enslaved people and married women-to make claims to textiles in law, something they could not do with other forms of property"--
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