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Smith, Logan Pearsall (Editor) Philadelphia Quaker: Hannah Whitall Smith hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002488. (filed under: American History ) *
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Smith, Robert Michael From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States Ohio University Press 2003 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1182076. ISBN #0821414666 / 9780821414668. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sobel, Robert Great Bull Market: Wall Street in The 1920s 1968 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111904. ISBN #0393098176 / 9780393098174. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sobel, Robert Great Bull Market: Wall Street in The 1920s 1968 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111904. ISBN #0393098176 / 9780393098174. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Wall Street and the stock market were major symbols of the 1920s, and the great crash was considered the end of that era. It is surprising, therefore, that little intensive study has been given to the bull market of the period. Several books have been written on the crash itself but non before has dealt with events leading up to it. The era of the 1920s was one of economic growth, and not merely tinsel and ballyhoo. For most of the period, stock market prices were not unreasonably high and investment capitalism matured and took on its present-day power. It was Wall Street's silver age. It was also and age of time purchases and of buying stocks on margin; an age when both practices were abused, but when Wall Street was no worse than Main Street. It was a period when government would not take major steps to correct the abuses and excesses. The few decisions made by the Federal Reserve were neither timely nor wise. A head of steam was building up for which there was no safety valve. When the great crash came it was not directly followed by an economic collapse. During the next year, government and business did nothing of importance to prevent the depression, whose severity could not be attributed to Wall Street.

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Souter, Gerry and Janet The Constitution Seven Oaks 2019 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1192964. ISBN #1838610073 / 9781838610074. (filed under: American History ) *
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St. John, Jeffrey Constitutional Journal: A Correspondent's Report from the Convention of 1787 Jameson Books 1987 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185943. ISBN #0915463423 / 9780915463428. (keywords: UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 1787) (filed under: American History ) *
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Stanford, William & Carl R. Green Basic Principles Of American Government AMSCO School Pub. 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206360. ISBN #0877206198 / 9780877206194. (filed under: American History ) *
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Steel, Edward M. (editor) The Court-Martial of Mother Jones The University Press of Kentucky 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181082. ISBN #0813119413 / 9780813119410. (filed under: American History ) *
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Stein, Mark How The States Got Their Shapes MJF Books 2012 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206234. ISBN #1606711458 / 9781606711453. (filed under: American History ) *
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Stein, Mark How The States Got Their Shapes MJF Books 2012 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206234. ISBN #1606711458 / 9781606711453. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why our state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny and little known parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey." "How the States Got Their Shapes examines: why West Virginia has a finger creeping up the side of Pennsylvania; why Michigan has an upper peninsula that isn't attached to Michigan; why some Hawaiian islands are not Hawaii; and why Texas and California are so outsized, especially when so many Midwestern states are nearly identical in size." Packed with oddities and trivia, this guide also reveals the major fault lines of American history, from ideological intrigues and religious intolerance to major territorial acquisitions. Adding the fresh lens of local geographic disputes, military skirmishes, and land grabs, Mark Stein shows how the seemingly haphazard puzzle pieces of our nation fit together perfectly.

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Sterling, Robert E. Joliet: A Pictorial History G. Bradley Publishing, Inc. 1993 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1195081. ISBN #0940286084 / 9780940286085. (filed under: American History ) *
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Story, Joseph Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States Regnery Gateway 1986 paperback. Minimal Highlighting. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some highlighting. Book #or1184035. ISBN #0895267969 / 9780895267962. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark America Finding Herself (Our Times 1900-1925 Volume II) Charles Scribner's Sons 1971 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Some Chipping. Book #or1150949. ISBN #068412355X / 9780684123554. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark Our Times 1900 - 1925 VI: The Twenties Charles Scribner's Sons 1936 hardcover. Previous owner name and address printed in.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1186543. (keywords: History / 1900 - 1925) (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark Over There (Our Times 1900-1925 Volume V) Charles Scribner's Sons 1972 hardcover. Dustjacket is chipped. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150922. ISBN #0684125234 / 9780684125237. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark Pre-War America (Our Times 1900-1925 Volume III) Charles Scribner's Sons 1971 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1150948. ISBN #0684123568 / 9780684123561. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark The Turn Of The Century (Our Times 1900-1925 Volume I) Charles Scribner's Sons 1971 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150950. ISBN #0684123541 / 9780684123547. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sullivan, Mark The Twenties (Our Times 1900-1925 Volume VI) Charles Scribner's Sons 1972 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1150947. ISBN #0684125242 / 9780684125244. (filed under: American History ) *
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Summers, Mark Wahlgren The Gilded Age: Or the Hazard of New Functions Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1997 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1199585. ISBN #0135766796 / 9780135766798. (filed under: American History ) *
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Swisher, James K. The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country Pelican Publishing Company 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164701. ISBN #1589805038 / 9781589805033. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sydnor, Charles S. American Revolutionaries in The Making: Political Practices In Washington's Virginia paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136187. (filed under: American History ) *
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Takaki, Ronald A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Back Bay Books 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1183873. ISBN #0316831115 / 9780316831116. (keywords: MULTICULTURALISM UNITED STATES SOCIAL CONDITIONS) (filed under: American History ) *
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Takaki, Ronald A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Back Bay Books 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1164845. ISBN #0316831115 / 9780316831116. (keywords: MULTICULTURALISM UNITED STATES SOCIAL CONDITIONS) (filed under: American History ) *
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Taylor, Alan Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, And The Northern Borderland Of The American Revolution Alfred A. Knopf 2006 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152613. ISBN #0679454713 / 9780679454717. (filed under: American History ) *
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Taylor, Alan Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, And The Northern Borderland Of The American Revolution Alfred A. Knopf 2006 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152613. ISBN #0679454713 / 9780679454717. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1761, at a boarding school in New England, a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant first met Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman. They began a long and intense relationship that would redefine North America. For nearly fifty years, their lives intertwined, at first as close friends but later as bitter foes. Kirkland served American expansion as a missionary and agent, promoting Indian conversion and dispossession. Brant pursued an alternative future for the continent by defending an Indian borderland nestled between the British in Canada and the Americans, rather than divided by them. By telling their dramatic story, Alan Taylor illuminates the dual borders that consolidated the new American nation after the Revolution. By constricting Indians within reservation lines, the Americans sought to control their northern boundary with the British Empire, which lingered in Canada. The border became firm as thousands of settlers established farms, held as private property, all around the new reservations. This struggle also pitted the federal government against the leaders of New York, competing to control the lands and the Indians of the border country. They contended for the highest of stakes because the transformation of Indian land constructed the wealth and the power of states, nations, and empires in North America. In addition to land, the frontier contest pivoted on murders, which repeatedly tested who had legal jurisdiction: Indians or newcomers. To assert power, the contending regimes sought to try and execute Indians or settlers who killed one another. To defend native autonomy, however, the Indians asserted an alternative by covering the graves of victims with presents to console their kin. When the gallows replaced covered graves, the Indians lost their middle position as free peoples. Taylor breaks with the stereotype of Indians as defiant but doomed traditionalists, as noble but futile defenders of ancient ways. In fact, the borderland Indians demonstrated remarkable adaptability and creativity in coping with the contending powers and with the growing numbers of invading settlers. Led by Joseph Brant, the natives tried to manage, rather than entirely to block, the process of settlement. Taylor shows that they did so in ways meant to preserve Indian autonomy and prosperity. Rather than sell lands for a song to governments, the Indians sought greater control and revenue by leasing lands directly to settler tenants. But neither the British nor the American leaders could accept Indians as landlords, as competitors in the construction of power from land in North America. Once a middle ground, the borderland became a divided ground, partitioned between the British Empire and the American republic.

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Tebbel, John W. Turning the World Upside Down : Inside the American Revolution Crown Publishers, Inc. 1993 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1197534. ISBN #0517589559 / 9780517589557. (keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY REVOLUTION 1775 1783 REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD 1800) (filed under: American History ) *
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Thibodeaux, Joyce Martin Browns Of Hartford, Michigan : Extended Family History 1984 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1194905. (filed under: American History ) *
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