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A narrative overview of each event, expert analysis, the text of primary source pro and con documents contemporary to the time of the event, and ready reference materials will help students understand the conflicting issues behind these events and apply critical thinking skills to their evaluation of those issues.

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An examination of American military exceptionalism from the struggle for independence to the end of the Civil War. Jeremy Black utilizes the comments of contemporary British observers to provide a context on how American actions fitted within a global perspective.

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An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.

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While the Spanish ultimately paid Aguinaldo to enter voluntary exile, in 1898, after the sinking of the ^IMaine^R, the United States would promise independence for the islands in exchange for Aguinaldo's return to lead an uprising against Spain.

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From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the Twin Towers, this book discusses how successive US administrations struggled to understand the changing world. It provides an account of one of the most overlooked and misunderstood eras in US history: the 12 years after the Cold War was definitively won.

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Presents the history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, this book shows how the consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a pervasive crisis of authority in American society.

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The book is divided into 18 traditional historical periods from the pre-Columbus explorers to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

We hear the voices of Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy and FDR, but also of Joe McCarthy, Huey Long, and Susan B.

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Including extensive, balanced information, keen insights, and helpful research tools, this book provides a valuable resource for students or general readers interested in American policy, diplomacy, and conduct during the Cold War.

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A documentary history of the 1960s which looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives.

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Originally published in 2014 as America in the world: a history in documents from the war with Spain to the war on terror.

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Numerous studies on various aspects ofthe issues of the 1960s have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis.

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Tackling major American issues---healthcare, education, capitalism, and more America the Beautiful is an indispensable book. New York Times bestselling author, renowned neurosurgeon and humanitarian Dr. Ben Carson offers a sobering and inspiring manifesto of Americas greatness and the change needed to carry our country into a prosperous future.

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At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary periodsome known and some forgottenfrom the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.

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Here are the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the upstanding and quintessential Americans who founded our nation. This book gathers together their best quotations on subjects including life, love, marriage, family, children, religion, patriotism, sacrifice, law, professionalism, medicine, and more.

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This book features the stories of 200 heroic individuals awarded the Medal of Honor for their distinguished military service while fighting for their country, from the Civil War to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A new compendium of firsthand reminiscences of life on the American home front during World War II.

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This book narrates the development of science and intelligence information systems and technologies in the U.S. from World War II through today. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s to the rise of a huge international science information industry, and to the 1990s Open Access-Open Culture.

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The plan was to trade them for American civilians held by the Japanese.

Although Peru was the most enthusiastic participant in this program, expelling nearly 5,000 Peruvian citizens of Japanese ancestry, other Latin American countries participated as well.

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This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries.

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