This book provides a history of the New Deal, exploring the institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.
"An abbreviated and revised edition of : The growth of the American Republic."--Title page verso.
In the engaging narrative that has made this work so well received, the second edition offers fresh and incisive analyses of the American party system, the Cold War, unemployment, environmental problems, Middle East conflicts, the energy ...
Thorough in its analysis and interpretative in treatment, this authoritative narrative presents American history from the Native Americans' Siberian forebears to the economic conflicts of the Carter and Reagan Administrations....
Gerald T. White, Billions for Defense: Government Financing by the Defense Plant Corporation during World War II (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1980), pp. 1–50; Jesse H. Jones, Fifty Billion Dollars: My Thirteen Years ...
In 1907, the Met shocked audiences by presenting Richard Strauss's musically innovative and sexually scandalous opera Salome. As the ferment of urban life overturned older cultural norms, some artists began to question the whole concept ...
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People: From 1865
This sixth edition features a new series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, new America in the World essays, and updated coverage of recent events and developments that demonstrates ...
This edition features a series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, new America in the World essays, and updated coverage of recent events and developments that demonstrates how a new ...
This fifth edition of Volume 1 includes coverage of events and developments through the year 1877 and features two new essays.
William Henry Harrison was the first candidate to actively campaign for the presidency, under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Tippecanoe referenced Harrison's defeat of Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in ...