Political thought in the United States: A documentary history

✍ Thaddeus Russell 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2014 🏛 Simon & Schuster;Free Press 🌐 English ⚖ 530 KB 👁 2 views

In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the

A Zombie's History of the United States

✍ Miller, Josh 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Ulysses Press 🌐 English ⚖ 484 KB 👁 3 views

“*Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.*” —Howard Zinn Shedding light on 500 years of suppression, this shocking exposé reveals the pivotal role in American history played by its most invisible minorit

These truths: a history of the United St

These truths: a history of the United States

✍ Jill Lepore 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 12 MB 👁 3 views

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and th

These truths: a history of the United St

These truths: a history of the United States

✍ Jill Lepore 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 12 MB 👁 3 views

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and th

Fault lines: a history of the United States since 1974

✍ Kruse, Kevin Michael;Zelizer, Julian E 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB 👁 2 views

"If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post- 9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the "Reagan Revolution" and the rise of the New Right. For leading histo

The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History

✍ David K. Fremon 📂 Fiction 📅 2014;2015 🏛 Enslow Publishers, Inc. 🌐 en-US ⚖ 276 KB 👁 2 views

In 1954, the Supreme Court rejected the notion of "separate by equal" facilities in the famous BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION decision. Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy, Author David K. Fremon shows