Vincent Virga
Since the Special Collections were established in 1897, the Curators of the Library of Congress have played a crucial role in acquiring and maintaining the Library's collections, particularly those that document the American experience. Never ... [... more]
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Donner Party, the
 From Amazon.com: While brother Ken Burns was redefining mammoth entertainment with his public television events, brother Ric was creating tighter, more definitive documentaries such as The Donner Party, whose tragic subject has seemed more a punch line [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Philip L. Fradkin
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of ... [... more]
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Anthony Pitch
The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is a central drama of the American experience. Its impact is felt to this day, and the basic story is known to all. Anthony ... [... more]
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American Experience: Ansel Adams
From Amazon.com: Ric Burns's documentary for the American Experience series winningly persuades one to think of Ansel Adams as not only the greatest American photographer of the 20th century, but also one of its most treasured artists. Using the familiar [... more]
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American Experience
An informative look at the reality vs the myth of Custer's Last Stand: As this episode of The American Experience -- not to mention history -- shows, there really was no Last Stand at Little Big Horn. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer basically led his [... more]
CDN$26.99
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Study the past to understand the present ...: How does USA react when it is attacked on its own soil?. How does it deal with the knowledge that it is vulnerable, and that others can shatter its security?. Yale's professor John Lewis Gaddis tries to [... more]
CDN$15.11
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American Experience: Daughter from Danang
From Amazon.com: A mix of epic history and intimate family portrait, Daughter from Danang follows the reunion of a Tennessee woman, Heidi, with her Vietnamese mother and siblings after 22 years. Shipped to the U.S. in the waning days of the Vietnam war, [... more]
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The American Experience: Murder of Emmett Till
Brutal, unflinching look at our history: This is for all of those people who would like to sanitize our history and make today's young people think that things were just dandy back in the good old days. Some of our more reactionary pundits would like to [... more]
CDN$31.24
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La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience
This book is outstanding: A book of this sort was long overdue. Perhaps I am not familiar enough with works in this area, but it was refreshing to see a well researched, serious account of the early Italian American experience. As a second generation [... more]
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Tuchman is the best: While you are reading this, you are there. Somehow Tuchman manages to make all of her historical explorations very readable and personal to the reader, not a small feat considering her subject matter. Excellent. The Bafflement and [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Study the past to understand the present ...: How does USA react when it is attacked on its own soil?. How does it deal with the knowledge that it is vulnerable, and that others can shatter its security?. Yale's professor John Lewis Gaddis tries to [... more]
CDN$19.74
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