History / Americas from Infinity Books Japan

US: 9781565846562, 2005. Paperback. Good. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of mo dern journalism and "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Satur day Review). In this "invaluable record" of one of the most dramatic periods in modern A merican history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s… Read more about this item

US: 9780252062339, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "In Williamson County some men took to violence almost as a way of life. A shocking story, well told."-New Yorker Williamson County in southern Illinois has been… Read more about this item

US: Faber & Faber, 2000. Paperback. Good. This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the B ritish decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet a lso managed to ignite the slow-burning fuse of the American Revolution.Fred Anderson observes how the war displaced native peoples from their previous ly central… Read more about this item

White House Historical Assoc, 1964. Paperback. Good.

US: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are k nown the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a… Read more about this item

US: Random House Publishing Grou, 2020. Hardcover. Good. America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by heroic citizens to preserve the victories of the Ci vil War by removing a bigoted president who ruled as if he were king. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson bec ame "the Accidental… Read more about this item

US: Little Brown, 1992. Paperback. Good. Traces the evolution of MAD from its position as an obscure ten-cent comic book to its near cult status, discussing its reflection of post-World War I I popular culture--including movies, politicians, and ad campaigns. Reprint . 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

US: 9780195093810, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, A merica had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by so me of… Read more about this item

US: U.S. Postal Service, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Tales and history behind the illustration on each of the 20 different 29 ce nt stamps in a commemorative pane published by the U.S. Postal Service in h onor of the Old West.

US: Holiday House, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. The heroic story of the Oglala Warrior who triumphed at the Battle of the L ittle Bighorn. An ALA Notable Book and a Best Book for… Read more about this item

US: DOVER, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Unabridged republication of the work first published in London in 1844. Illustrated by photographic reproductions of 257 of Catlin's original oil paintings. Library also has original 1903 edition… Read more about this item

US: University of Alberta Press, 1992. Paperback. Good. Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a specia l place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, w riters reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric ti mes to its present and uncertain future. The heated controversy over… Read more about this item

US: DOVER, 1973. Paperback. Good. Crow, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Sioux, Comanche, Mandan, Choctaw, Cheyenne, Winneb ago, Creek, Assinboin; wild prairies teeming with buffalo; the sacred site of "Catlinite" stone - all were subjects of Catlin's letters and paintings. For eight years (1832-39) George Catlin ventured among the Indians of the North American Plains capturing in verbal and visual pictures… Read more about this item

US: Chronicle Books, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. The lush, seductive, nostalgic elegance of New Orleans' streets, parks, and public buildings, as well as the fanciful, nuanced interiors of some of it s most beautiful private homes and gardens, are insightfully revealed in th is comprehensive photographic homage to the "Venice of North America" Over 200 full-color photographs and… Read more about this item

US: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Paperback. Fair. In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peacef ul encampment of Cheyennes by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory an d murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events… Read more about this item

US: Oxford University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Like New. In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be b rief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million peop le. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points… Read more about this item

US: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. "If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed… Read more about this item

US: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Paperback. Good. A newly revised version of a classic in American history When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history . Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by… Read more about this item

US: UNP - Bison Books, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indi an eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle, t… Read more about this item

US: UNP - Bison Books, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Rick er, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and… Read more about this item