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Posterity: letters of great Americans to their children
By Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004America's first ladies: private lives of the presidential wives
By Diana Healy. 1988
Brief, colorful biographical sketches of forty-one first ladies. Includes anecdotes and bits of information, such as the fact that Anna…
Symmes Harrison, the wife of William H. Harrison, who died a month after taking office, was the only first lady to be the grandmother of a presidentTo heal a nation: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
By Jan Scruggs. 1985
Veteran Scruggs recounts the story of his struggle for a national monument honoring veterans of the war in Vietnam. Also…
included is an alphabetical list of the names appearing on the wall along with the exact location of each nameThe presidencies of Grover Cleveland
By Richard Welch. 1988
Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, served during the Gilded Age in American history--a time when there was an intense…
conflict between old values and social changes. Welch shows how Cleveland's personality and ideology affected his terms in office in 1885-1889 and 1893-1897In March 1980, Senator Byrd made some impromptu speeches on the history of the Senate, primarily for the benefit of…
his granddaughters. His colleagues asked him to continue these addresses in light of the approaching bicentennial. From May 1981 to December 1987 Senator Byrd made more than forty more speeches, which are contained in this volumeDavis contends U.S. history has been lifelessly taught and so riddled with misconceptions and half-truths that many Americans are ignorant…
of or indifferent to their country's past. A fresh, question-and-answer approach underscores the facts, including those less savory, surrounding major events from the ambigous discovery of America to the Iran-Contra affairA lively, brisk account of the United States' crucial early years, from George Washington's election through his two terms and…
the election of John Adams as the nation's second president. Companion to "We the People: The Story of the United States Constitution Since 1787." For junior and senior high and older readersUnder fire: an American story
By Oliver North. 1991
Oliver North offers his detailed view of the Iran-Contra arms controversy in this secretly written autobiography. Presenting himself as a…
patriotic, religious, family man, North describes his childhood, his stint in Vietnam, and his work on the National Security Council staff at the White House. Stating that he never saw himself above the law, North conveys his perception of betrayal by his administrationForged in battle: the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers
By Joseph Glatthaar. 1990
An associate professor of history at the University of Houston explores the interactions of black and white military personnel during…
and after the American Civil War. This historic anomaly, which brought together 180,000 African-American troops and 7,000 white officers, established precedents that lasted ninety years until the Korean Conflict when the services were integratedAristocrats of color: the Black elite, 1880-1920
By Willard Gatewood. 1990
Class has always been a powerful force in African-American society. Gates presents a scholarly study of elite black society--whose criteria…
for membership included "family background, good breeding, occupation, respectability, and color." He writes of elite blacks across the nation, focusing on Washington, D.C., the "capital of the colored aristocracy." He also includes a comprehensive study of Senator Blanche K. BruceLiberty in expansion, 1760-1850
By Oscar Handlin. 1986
Second in a series on the concept of liberty in American history. Examines the people and events shaping the nation…
from the Revolution through the Abolitionist movement, against the background of expansion. Shows how the common people sought to protect their rights without sacrificing personal liberty. Sequel to "Liberty and Power: 1600-1760."The compiler of this oral history (originator of Foxfire magazine) groups contributors into categories defined by social action experience and…
date. But there the similarity ends. Individual narrators, such as Rosa Parks and Pete Seeger, recall personal reactions to injustice and the critical points at which each took an active stance"I love Paul Revere, whether he rode or not," Warren Harding
By Richard Shenkman. 1991
Nothing is immune to closer examination--not the religion of our forefathers, not our patriotic symbols, not the image of women…
in history, and most certainly not politics--the source of so many of our myths. Shenkman pokes holes in hallowed legends and trivia alike. By the author of bestselling Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History (BR 07785)The fifties
By David Halberstam. 1993
As the 1950s were the first decade immortalized by television, the author uses the images that appeared on home screens…
to support his perception that events made the decade far more rebellious than the benign period often portrayed. Challenging the myth of the "innocent" generation, Halberstam examines political, economic, and social highlights of the era, citing familiar experiences and famous people from Marilyn Monroe to Joseph McCarthy. BestsellerThe Haldeman diaries: inside the Nixon White House
By H. R Haldeman. 1994
The chief of staff for President Nixon kept a personal daily record of the events in which he was involved.…
The subjects range from the American political structure to domestic policy, bureaucracy, the media, the moon landing, Supreme Court nominations and rejections, the China trip, war and the military, the Pentagon Papers, the Moscow Summit, SALT I, elections, and Watergate. Some strong language. BestsellerW.E.B. DuBois: biography of a race, 1868-1919
By David Lewis. 1993
Scholar, activist, pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois was a founder of the NAACP and the first black American to receive a…
doctorate from Harvard. He died an expatriate in Ghana at ninety-five. In this biography, based partly on newly available personal papers, Lewis analyzes the first fifty years of Du Bois's life with the backdrop of race relations and the racial ideologies and conflicts of the period. Pulitzer PrizeCities of gold: a journey across the Ameerican Southwest in pursuit of Coronado
By Douglas Preston. 1992
The author chronicles his journey on horseback retracing the path of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado across the…
American Southwest in search of the seven cities of gold. Woven into the narrative are natural history; stories heard from cowboys, Native Americans, and ranchers; and an account of the original expedition. Strong languageQuotes from letters, speeches, court papers, and articles create this portrait of Lincoln. Meltzer traces the life of the sixteenth…
president, from his childhood to his career as a lawyer and his role as commander in chief of the armed forces during the Civil War. The author sets the stage by commenting on the political forces at the time and by introducing contemporary figures. For junior and senior high and older readersHistoric speeches of African Americans (African-American experience)
By Warren Halliburton. 1993
Excerpts from noted speeches focus on slavery, emancipation and reconstruction, renewed racial strategies, the civil rights revolution, and assessment after…
the revolution. Speakers include Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, and Jesse Jackson. For junior and senior high and older readersThe rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the birth of California
By Arthur Quinn. 1994
Recounts the events in the mid 1800s when two ambitious adversaries rose to power as U.S. senators from California. Reviews…
the personal and political conflicts that culminated in a duel, which left Broderick dead and Gwin discredited, and presents details of this tragedy using young California's transformation from a remote province to a prosperous state as a backdrop