"Advising the President tells the story of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson's advisory relationship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, particularly with respect to matters of national security on
In this innovative study, Farina King (Navajo) explores how historical changes in education shaped Navajo (Dinâe) collective identity and community by examining the interconnections between Dinâe stud
Not only chronicles the transformative battlefield and nursing experiences of ordinary Californians during World War I, but also documents how daily life changed for everyone on the home front—factory
"During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffer
"Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone. Americans are fighting over it now. They have been fighting over it since the first Puritan stepped ashore. Americans hate government (no n
Explains how the Warren Commission had a political agenda dictated by the FBI causing it to reach its "lone assassin" conclusion and how the Commission's own documentation and other papers point to a
"In a book that looks backward to the New Deal and forward to the 2012 election, Thurber provides the reader a fresh and nuanced account of the GOP's relationship with African Americans during a cruci
Thayer (North Carolina State University Libraries) brings general readers into the world of American greyhound racing, from its origins through its glory days, at the same time acknowledging its under
Hulsey (American history, U. of Virginia) portrays Dirksen in his critical yet contradictory role in defining issues of post-World War II America, and in the conflicts internal to the Republican party
