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The rapid growth of the conservative movement has long fascinated historians, many of whom have focused on the grassroots efforts in the Sunbelt. Empire of Direct Mail examines how conservative operatives got their message out to their supporters through computerized direct mail, a significant but understudied communications technology.

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War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated centre on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs). Traumatic Defeat takes a close, comparative look at two cases of this kind of mythmaking - in West Germany in the wake of World War II and in the US after the Vietnam War.

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The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the 'Stalingrad of the First World War', engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. This title presents an account of the Carpathian Winter War.

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Argues that the television series The Big Picture, like others produced during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public.

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Offers the first in-depth historical study of the development and evolution of modern army reserve forces. In doing so, Andrew Lewis Chadwick explores how a confluence of military, political, and socio-economic developments since the First World War has forced armies preparing for major war to increase their dependence on reservists.

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The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the America's demographics shift away from its core constituents - older white middle-class Christians. It is the American conservatism that we don't know that concerns George Hawley in this book.

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Presents an account of institutional transformation under extreme stress that balances Churchill's self-serving memoirs. This work demonstrates that what political leaders demand from their armies is less important than what those armies are designed to do - and that this oft-recurring disconnect lies at the root of wartime civil-military tension.

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This profusely illustrated comprehensive key for identifying amphibians and reptiles from the continental United States and Canada incorporates a wealth of scientific findings. The key is easy to use and illustrated with outstanding line drawings that show details of colour patterns and structures used for identification.

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Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as ‘the most colorful man in North America’ at the time of the founding, was a dominant figure at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Dennis Rasmussen demonstrates that it is impossible to fully understand the US Constitution without appreciating the central role that Morris played in shaping it.

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In this collection of essays written with his characteristically inviting prose, William Harris draws on decades of scholarship on America’s most highly regarded president to provide a fresh and fuller treatment of aspects of Lincoln’s political career and legacy that have not been adequately analyzed by historians or biographers.

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Aims to bring together the work of some of the young scholars in the field of national education policy studies, focusing on the federal role in reform efforts. This book addresses such issues as desegregation, education choice, Title I, National Defense Education Act, politics of pre-K education, and Supreme Court decisions on equal opportunity.

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Examining the information on enemy nations that was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders in the Nazi state, Robert Hutchinson's study reveals the consequences of the politicization of German intelligence during World War II - as well as the persistence of ingrained prejudices among the intelligence services' Cold War successors.

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Using Racial Threat Theory arguments, this book demonstrates that American states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in predictable ways.

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For all that has been written about the Civil War’s impact on the urban northeast and southern home fronts, we have until now lacked a detailed picture of how it affected specific communities in the Union’s Midwestern heartland. Nicole Etcheson offers a deeply researched microhistory of one such community - Putnam County, Indiana.

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In this groundbreaking work, Brian Linn argues that in each decade following every major conflict since the War of 1812 the postwar army has undergone a long, painful, and remarkably consistent recovery process as it struggled to build a new model force to replace the ‘Old Army’ that entered the conflict.

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The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US Marine Corps. In this book J. Michael Miller takes us to the battlefields of Belleau Wood and Soissons, immersing us in the experience of a single brigade of marines at the forefront of the fighting.

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A study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the ""adventurelogues"" of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into ""elsewheres,"" distant and dangerous.

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A biography of one of the Confederacy's fighting generals, Patrick Cleburne. Symonds seeks to provide insights into the dialogue between society, culture, and personality, on one side, and Civil War military leadership on the other.

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Moving deftly between the battlefield and the halls of power, Allan Millett weaves together military operations and tactics without losing sight of Cold War geopolitics, strategy, and civil-military relations. His book is the first to give combined arms its due, looking at the challenges of integrating naval and air power with ground forces.

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Explores how the worst economic, social, and political crisis in the last century created the space for a national conversation about the ideals of modernity order, planning, and reason.

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Jim Hoy has always called the Flint Hills home and over the decades he has made a study of them and marshaled his observations to bring the Flint Hills home to readers in a singular way. These essays are Hoy's Flint Hills, combining family lore and anecdotes of ranching life with reflections on the region's rich history and nature.

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This book synthesizes the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. The author looks at what motivated these men to serve and how they were turned into soldiers.

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The Whole Earth Catalog was a national phenomenon catering to hippies, do-it-yourselfers, and anyone interested in self-sufficiency independent of mainstream America. This book takes a fresh look at those who worked in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to construct this philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism, and shows us that Whole Earth was more than a mere counterculture fad.

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The German seige and Soviet defence of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. This work provides a military history of the conflict waged beyond the city's borders.

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A sweeping study of the operations on land and sea, From the Mountains to the Bay is the only modern scholarly work that looks at the operations that took place in Virginia in early 1862 as a single, comprehensive campaign.

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From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their story is entwined with that of the state as a whole, and their size and status are rarely questioned. This text relates the history of Kansas' larger communities from the 1850s to the present.

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For millions of moviegoers unable to see the original stage version of West Side Story, director Robert Wise’s adaptation was a cinematic gift that brought a Broadway hit to a mass audience. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz argues that Wise’s film was not only hugely popular, but that it was also an artistic triumph that marked an important departure in the history of American movie making.

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Oliver Stone has left an indelible mark on public opinion and political life and has generated enormous controversy and debate among those who take issue with his dramatic use of history. This text brings Stone face-to-face with some of his critics and supporters.

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Makes the case that campus speech codes - no matter how well grounded in history, law, or philosophy - have tended to be overbroad, arbitrarily enforced, and used selectively to protect only certain groups at the expense of others. This title challenges academics and general readers to reconsider how we deal with this important issue.

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This work suggests that gossip has unexpected virtues. The contributors argue that gossip contributes to community cohesion and helps individuals better understand their own predicaments, problems and personal idiosyncrasies in the light of knowledge about the life experiences of others.

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Boldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Jared Goldstein demonstrates how movements deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence.

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The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale - a campaign that was both a turning point in WWII and a lasting symbol of that war's power and devastation. This book provides an account of the opening phase of this iconic Eastern Front campaign.

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The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that 'I don't remember that I ever was President'. This title presents an assessment of Taft's accomplishments and setbacks in office. It shows why Taft's presidency is very much worth remembering on its own terms.

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In this first of three planned volumes for the University Press of Kansas’s Constitutional Thinking series, Mark Graber aims to restore to contemporary memory the Fourteenth Amendment drafted by those Republican and Unionist members of Congress who supported congressional reconstruction.

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Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden “took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks”, but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti’s engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.

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Examines depictions of and by Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Anthony Burke Smith surveys the popular films, television, and photojournalism of the era that reimagined Catholicism as an important, even attractive, element of American life.

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