The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States

A merciful end: The euthanasia movement

A merciful end: The euthanasia movement in modern America; ‘Merciful release’: The history of the British euthanasia movement

✍ Alex Dracobly 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 102 KB

Ann Hulbert, an accomplished journalist and editor, has written a lively and informative history of advice to American parents in the last 100 years. From the beginning of the Progressive Era to the present moment, we learn about the "experts" who wrote prescriptive advice to mothers about the prope

A Renegade History of the United States

✍ 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

The Untold History of the United States

✍ Stone, Oliver; Kuznick, Peter 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2011 🏛 Gallery Books 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB 👁 3 views

**The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history.** “At last the world knows America

The Untold History of the United States

✍ Stone, Oliver; Kuznick, Peter 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2011 🏛 Gallery Books 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB 👁 3 views

**The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history.** “At last the world knows America

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 👁 2 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