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  • Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiakby Black Hawk; J. Gerald Kennedy

    Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 14.00

    A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk,... more...

  • The World Sixties Madeby Van Gosse; Richard Moser

    Temple University Press 2008; US$ 27.95

    How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts... more...

  • The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Vol 4by John Gregory Bourke; Charles M. Robinson

    University of North Texas Press 2009; US$ 44.00

    John Gregory Bourke kept a set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fourth volume chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook's Department of the Platte. It focuses on the controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line. more...

  • Pieces of Intelligenceby Hart Seely

    Free Press 2010; US$ 9.99

    Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, "embedded" within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. His preferred medium is the spoken word, and his audience has been limited to hard-bitten reporters and hard-core watchers of C-SPAN. Just as The Iliad and The Odyssey were spoken aloud by many... more...

  • Die USA im Vietnamkriegby Erik Fischer

    Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 46.37

    Hauptbeschreibung Am Morgen des 16. März 1968 machte sich eine amerikanische Einheit auf den Weg in ein kleines südvietnamesisches Dorf: My Lai. Innerhalb von vier Stunden brachten sie so gut wie alle Bewohner in einem grauenvollen Exzess um. My Lai ist eine Zäsur; es ist der Höhepunkt eines grausamen Krieges. Erschreckender noch als das Ereignis... more...

  • Custer on Canvasby Norman K Denzin

    Left Coast Press 2011; US$ 94.00

    The 1876 events known as Custer’s Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing perceptions—often racist—of Native America by... more...

  • Trumanby David McCullough

    Simon & Schuster 2003; Not Available

    The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex,... more...

  • Eisenhowerby Douglas Kinnard

    Potomac Books Inc. 2003; US$ 9.95

    Provides an insightful and concise account of America's foremost warrior-diplomat more...

  • A Rabble in Armsby Kyle F. Zelner

    NYU Press 2009; US$ 65.00

    While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts... more...

  • Final Victoryby Stanley Weintraub

    Da Capo Press 2012; US$ 26.00

    A compelling narrative about FDR, preoccupied with winning the war and his deteriorating health, and the hard-fought presidential election for an unprecedented fourth term more...