This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called the Great American Desert.
The number of Frances Slocum narratives seems to be ever-expanding, but only a few brief scholarly treatments exist; see Anson, The Miami Indians, 211—12; Axtell's extremely brief caption in The Invasion Within, 313; Rafert, ...
Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, ...
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l. Los Angeles, California, 141, 159 Loucks, Henry L., 48, 53 Lukas, J. Anthony, 217n106 ... labor unions, 37, 89, 93–94, 120–21, 134, 216n99 La Follette, Robert M., 142 Lake, Illinois, 64 Landes, Bertha Knight, 176 Latham, Mrs. Joseph, ...
" "This collection of his writings gives credence to Henry Adams's assertion that Roosevelt was "pure Act": there was, it seems, no subject (or foe) he was afraid to tackle.
The Crowded Hour feels like the best type of war reporting—told with a clarity that takes nothing away from the horrors of the battlefield” (The New York Times Book Review).