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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.

The author, Howard P. Chudacoff, is a distinguished professor at Brown University, specializing in American history and urban studies. He has contributed significantly to the field with works such as "Children at Play: An American History," which explores the historical context of children's play in America. His expertise is further recognized through his role as a faculty representative to the NCAA, highlighting his engagement in both academic and athletic spheres.

Focusing on the interplay of diverse populations within urban environments, this book explores the historical dimensions of American urban development. It examines the societal, economic, political, and policy influences that have shaped cities over time, providing a comprehensive understanding of urban history through various perspectives.

David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America's most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.

This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam?

In 1865, in the aftermath of civil war, the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This book examines the construction of a culture of reunion during the ensuing decades and analyzes how this unity was created through increasing racial segregation.

A short introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War. The book sets the context to the conflict from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full scale war in 1965. It places events in their full international background. číst celé

"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century