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The Blockade That Failed
Author: Daniel O’flaherty
Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports
Made For America
Author: Ruth B. Davidson
Distant lands supplied patriotic tableware to the new Republic
Spoiled Child Of American Politics
Author: John A. Garraty
Henry Cabot Lodge was a public man in the old sense—one who was often wrong but never evil
Crazy Bill Had A Down Look
Author: Louis C. Jones
Quaint pictures and a grim story tell of prejudice and mob passion in upstate New York of the 1840’s
Collaborationist: 1776
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Newspaper ads from occupied New York illumine Revolutionary War loyalties
The End Of Formalized Warfare
Author: Louis Morton
Military science was very rigid in the 1600’s. It quickly changed when Americans began to fight Indians
Evangelists To The Machine Age
Author: Bernard A. Weisberger
Calling millions to repentance, Moody and Sankey devised a new method of spreading the gospel
General Howe’s Orderly Book
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Never before printed, the headquarters record of the British conqueror of New York illuminates crucial events of the American Revolution.
A Medical Profile Of George Washington
Author: Rudolph Marx, M.d.
Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.