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Letters to Hitler by Henrik Eberle Publisher Comments Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover 
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Vintage) by Charles C. Mann Publisher Comments A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how... (read more) Available July 24, 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin Publisher Comments In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy--one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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Justices of the United States Supreme Court, Fourth Edition, 4-Volume Set: Their Lives and Major Opinions (Facts on File Library of American History) by Leon Friedman Publisher Comments The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. So wrote Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a law unconstitutional and asserted... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $402.95 New - Hardcover
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Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Defining Illness in the Antebellum South by Marli F. Weiner Publisher Comments Marli F. Wiener skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians'... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $74.25 New - Hardcover
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind Publisher Comments Acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine, and The Price of Loyalty, gives an explosive inside account of an Obama White House overwhelmed by the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Tobias Brinkmann Publisher Comments First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Hardcover
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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews Publisher Comments The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling new biography of John F. Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy'... (read more) Available November 6, 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making (North's Civil War) by Allen C. Guelzo Publisher Comments Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president-making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied figures of American history. The book explores Lincoln's leadership through essays focused, respectively, on... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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For Adam's Sake: A Tale of Two Families in Colonial New England by Allegra Di Bonaventura Publisher Comments In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's classic, A Midwife's Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America's most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Hard Times: An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments In this unique re-creation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. The book is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by James Dieugenio Publisher Comments If you enjoyed the chilling reading of In Cold Blood and were at the edge of your seat while watching Oliver Stone's JFK, you'll love this investigative look into all the facets of one of the top conspiracies of the twentieth century and beyond... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Battlefields of Honor: American Civil War Reenactors by Jeannine Stein Synopsis Some 150 years on, interest in the American Civil War (1861–65) is at an all-time high, no more so than among the thousands of people across the United States and Europe who participate in reenactments. They leave their jobs and homes behind to... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture After World War II by Linda Sargent Wood Publisher Comments In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides.... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates by Bruce I. Bustard Publisher Comments A fascinating, thematic exploration of some of the millions of immigration files in the US National Archive, focusing on 29 case studies Explores beyond the literal meaning by looking at the 'attachments' of immigrants to family and community Includes... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation by Various Synopsis For the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation’s long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It’s an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution... (read more) Available November 8, 2012 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators by Edward Steers, Jr. Publisher Comments With commentary by Terry Alford, Burrus Carnahan, Joan L. Chaconis, Percy Martin, Betty Ownsbey, Edward Steers Jr., Thomas R. Turner, and Laurie Verge On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. By April 26, eight of the... (read more) Available December 23, 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reagan's Comeback: Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever by Gilbert Garcia Synopsis Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment. Reagan's Comeback is the story of how one state, one man, and one month changed... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima by Robert R. Johnson Publisher Comments In 1945, Albert Einstein said, "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking … the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind." This statement seems more valid today than ever. Romancing the Atom: Nuclear... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $59.50 New - Hardcover
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek Publisher Comments Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Henry Wienceks eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or... (read more) Available October 16, 2012 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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