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The Making Of Salem : The Witch Trials In History, Fiction And Tourism

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Robin DeRosa
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Book, McFarland, 2009
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still linger centuries later. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Witchcraft · Massachusetts · Salem · Trials (Witchcraft) · Historiography · Popular culture · United States · Salem (Mass.) · In popular culture · DeRosa, Robin
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SPINELLI RM BF1575 .D47 2009 ASK REF DESK
FAC PUB DISPLAY (MAIN) BF1575 .D47 2009 DUE 02-03-10

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FAC PUB DISPLAY (MAIN)	BF1575 .D47 2009	DUE 02-03-10

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Promised Land : Thirteen Books That Changed America

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Jay Parini
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Book, 1st ed, Doubleday, 2008
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In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · History and criticism · National characteristics, American, in literature · Literature and morals · United States · History · Literature and society · Books · Reviews · Books and reading · In literature · Historiography · Parini, Jay
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS169.N35 P37 2008	AVAILABLE

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Red, White, And Blue Letter Days : An American Calendar

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Matthew Dennis
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Book, Cornell University Press, 2002
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The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington?s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King?s Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. In six engaging chapters?assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Holidays · United States · History · Memory · Social aspects · National characteristics, American · Historiography · Dennis, Matthew, 1955-
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(LOWER LEVEL) GT4803.A2 D46 2002 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GT4803.A2 D46 2002	AVAILABLE

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History Teaches Us To Hope : Reflections On The Civil War And Southern History

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Charles P. Roland ; edited and with an introduction by John David Smith
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Book, University Press of Kentucky, 2007
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- Publisher description
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History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a ?dogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions.? Throughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy (1960), The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1976), and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (1991). Civil War?related writings appear in the following two sections, which include Roland?s theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Roland, Charles Pierce, · 1918- · Secession · Southern States · Generals · Confederate States of America · Biography · Command of troops · Case studies · Historians · United States · History · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Historiography · Causes · Civilization · Roland, Charles Pierce, 1918- · Smith, John David, 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E468.5 .R65 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E468.5 .R65 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Myth Of American Diplomacy : National Identity And U.S. Foreign Policy

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Walter L. Hixson
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Book, Yale University Press, 2008
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- Contributor biographical information
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In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson engages with the entire sweep of that history, from its Puritan beginnings to the twenty-first century?s war on terror. Hixson investigates the national narratives that help to explain ethnic cleansing of Indians, nineteenth-century imperial thrusts in Mexico and the Philippines, the two World Wars, the Cold War, the Iraq War, and today?s war on terror. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Nationalism · United States · History · National characteristics, American · Militarism · Foreign relations · Historiography · Philosophy · Military policy · Hixson, Walter L
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(LOWER LEVEL) E183.7 .H595 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E183.7 .H595 2008	AVAILABLE

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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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James W. Loewen
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Book, Touchstone trade pbk. ed, Simon & Schuster, 2007
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After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. From the truth about Columbus’s historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · Textbooks · Historiography · Textbooks. · sears · Historiography. · Loewen, James W
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175.85 .L64 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175.85 .L64 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Americanist

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Daniel Aaron
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Book, University of Michigan Press, 2007
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“I have read all of Daniel Aaron’s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.” —Harold Bloom “The Americanist is the absorbing intellectual autobiography of Daniel Aaron, who is the leading proponent and practitioner of American Studies. The Americanist is a veritable Who’s Who of twentieth-century writers Aaron interviewed, interacted with, or otherwise encountered throughout his life: Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Lillian Hellman, Richard Hofstadter, Alfred Kazin, Sinclair Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Crowe Ransom, Upton Sinclair, Edmund Wilson, Leonard Woolf, and W. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Aaron, Daniel, · 1912- · Historians · United States · Biography · Historiography · Presidents · History · 20th century · Miscellanea · Critics · American literature · History and criticism · Study and teaching · Politics and government · Aaron, Daniel, 1912-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175.5.A15 A3 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175.5.A15 A3 2007	AVAILABLE

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New Indians, Old Wars

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2007
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Indians of North America · Historiography · Indians, Treatment of · United States · History · Public opinion · Race relations · Politics and government · Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
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(LOWER LEVEL) E76.8 .C66 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E76.8 .C66 2007	AVAILABLE

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Dr. Kimball And Mr. Jefferson : Rediscovering The Founding Fathers Of American Architecture

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Hugh Howard
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Book, 1st U.S. ed, Bloomsbury Pub, 2006
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When Thomas Jefferson was born, there were few high-style buildings in America, but in a lifetime full of political accomplishments, he also became the father of America?s new architecture, enabling the Neoclassical to become the de facto national style for public and private buildings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kimball, Fiske, · 1888-1955 · Jefferson, Thomas, · 1743-1826 · Architecture and society · United States · History · 18th century · Architecture · Historiography · Historic preservation · Howard, Hugh, 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA2543.S6 H69 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA2543.S6 H69 2006	AVAILABLE

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Historians In Trouble : Plagiarism, Fraud, And Politics In The Ivory Tower

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Jon Wiener
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Book, New Press, 2005
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Why is that?”?from Historians in Trouble Historians have been in the news recently, and the news has not been good ?accusations of plagiarism, research fraud, and classroom misconduct have made headlines, brought protracted investigations, and, in some cases, landed big names in the courtroom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Historians · United States · Biography · Press coverage · Case studies · Professional ethics · Mass media · Political aspects · History · 20th century · Power (Social sciences) · Historiography · Plagiarism · Fraud · Wiener, Jon
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175.45 .W54 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175.45 .W54 2005	AVAILABLE

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History In The Making : An Absorbing Look At How American History Has Changed In The Telling Over The Last 200 Years

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Kyle Ward
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Book, New Press, 2006
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- Table of contents only
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In this absorbing look at how the telling of American history has changed over the past three hundred years, historian Kyle Ward juxtaposes excerpts from U.S. history textbooks of different eras to compare how the same event or historical figure has been portrayed differently at different times in our nation’s history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · Textbooks · Evaluation · Historiography · Ward, Kyle Roy, 1969-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175.85 .W37 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175.85 .W37 2006	AVAILABLE

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Henry Adams & The Need To Know

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edited by William Merrill Decker & Earl N. Harbert
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Book, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Adams, Henry, · 1838-1918 · Criticism and interpretation · Historians · United States · Biography · Historiography · Intellectual life · Politics and government · Decker, William Merrill · Harbert, Earl N., 1934-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175.5.A2 H455 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175.5.A2 H455 2005	AVAILABLE

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Historians In Public : The Practice Of American History, 1890-1970

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Ian Tyrrell
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2005
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Tyrrell’s elegant history of the practice of American history traces debates, beginning shortly after the profession’s emergence in American academia, about history’s role in school curricula. As Historians in Public shows, the utility of history is a distinctive theme throughout the history of the discipline, as is (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Historiography · United States · History · 20th century · Historians · Political activity · Social aspects · Political aspects · Public history · Popular culture · Tyrrell, Ian R
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(LOWER LEVEL) E175 .T975 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E175 .T975 2005	AVAILABLE

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Blood & Irony : Southern White Women’s Narratives Of The Civil War, 1861-1937

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Sarah E. Gardner
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Book, University of North Carolina Press, 2003
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Group identity · Southern States · History · American literature · Women authors · History and criticism · Women and literature · 19th century · 20th century · Group identity in literature · Confederate States of America · Historiography · United States · Civil War, 1861-1865 · Intellectual life · 1865- · Personal narratives, Confederate · Literature and the war · In literature · Gardner, Sarah E
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(LOWER LEVEL) E487 .G27 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E487 .G27 2003	AVAILABLE

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American Indian Themes In Young Adult Literature

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Paulette F. Molin
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Book, Scarecrow Press, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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This book analyzes American Indian characters and themes in young adult literature, outlining plots and evaluating content from a native perspective. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Young adult literature, American · History and criticism · Indians in literature · American literature · Indian authors · Indians of North America · Biography · Young adults · Books and reading · United States · Intellectual life · Historiography · Molin, Paulette Fairbanks
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS173.I6 M65 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS173.I6 M65 2005	AVAILABLE

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