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  • Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins

    Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

    Winner of the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State Historical SocietyBaseball’s spread across Illinois paralleled the sport’s explosive growth in other parts of the country.Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of “base ball on the brain” raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Illinois History

    A Reader

    Collections series Common Threads
    A renaissance in Illinois history scholarship has sparked renewed interest in the Prairie State's storied past. Students, meanwhile, continue to pursue coursework in Illinois history to fulfill degree requirements and for their own edification.This Common Threads collection offers important articles from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Organized as an approachable survey of ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Riot and Remembrance

    The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy

    par James S. Hirsch ...
    With a new preface, a "profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history" that investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community ( Boston Globe).On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a white elevator operator and a Black delivery boy escalated into the worse race riot in U.S. history. In this ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    par Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Collections series Pivotal Moments in American History
    They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    par Richard White ...
    A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden

    The Secret History of the Early Game

    par John Thorn ...
    Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright.But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    Collections series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... En savoir plus

    $24.79 CAD

  • Black Wall Street

    From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

    Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How the States Got Their Shapes Too

    The People Behind the Borderlines

    par Mark Stein ...
    Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein's new book.How the States Got Their Shapes Too follows How the States Got Their Shapes looks at American ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Black Birds in the Sky

    The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    par Brandy Colbert ...
    A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    par Richard White ...
    Collections series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD