US History & American Studies from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Tightly bound with lower edge remainder mark, this memoir began to take shape as the author's husband lay dying, a victim of cancer. Their decades together had been unspoken. His profession, a C.I.A. operative, and its details, were for him to know. Management of their home and their five children were her focus. But when cancer began to dominate he… Read more about this item

Collection of letters by Confederate Soldiers, led by Lt. Ted Barclay. B&W photos plus nearly 200 biographical sketches of comrades and civilians from Lexington and Rockbridge County. Manuscripts, Select Bibliography, Books and Articles, Index. Historian Charles W Turner, Ph.D., published this volume Professor Emeritus of Washington and Lee University, a longtime resident of Lexington VA, past President of the Rockbridge… Read more about this item

A scholarly study of post-American Revolution neomercantilism, exploring liberal political economy as the new country of America, independent from its colonial 18th century relationship with England.

Memoir: World War II History. Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Van Rundstedt.

Spine has sun-fade. Binding solid. Deckled outside page block. Oval gold pastoral scene, lower front. Senator Aiken in his Introduction reviews the 10 prior years and the economic depression America had been sinking into. Signed by author to friends w/ small Xmas tag.

A sturdy, well-designed academic study and history, with a range of charts focusing on some founding families of Salem, Massachusetts, as developed by 1800, post American Revolution. Families include Archer, Moulton, Becket, Crowninshield, Derby, Silsbee, Boardman, Hodges, Sparhawk, Higginson, Cabot. Some occupations and intermarriages are detailed. Puritan families, occupations, Socioeconomjc patterns, and influences on changing family structures are woven into… Read more about this item

Non-fiction account by the 2nd most powerful government employee in the Richard Nixon White House Administration, Bob Halderman. Published after 5 years of scandal and conflicting reports following the break-in to the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building. The burglars were were hired by top echelon Republican National Party operatives during Nixon's re-election campaign, including… Read more about this item

Archival B&W photo section. Research and history is by author Bob Steuding, then Humanities teacher, New York Faculty Exchange Scholar, and Poet Laureate of Ulster County. A native to the Catskill region, he was raised near the Ashokan. When his first edition of this history first appeared in 1985, he was surprised by its immediate success, reprinting several times to… Read more about this item

Not Peace but a Sword (1939) - Europe. Personal account of events in Prague, Madrid, London, Paris and Berlin during the 12 fateful months between March 1938 and March 1939. Vincent Sheean, 1899-1975, was an American journalist and novelist, publishing more than 12 books, notably about people and events of World War II.

Faded prior owner inscription, inside front board plus pencilled signature, Barbara M Wells, friend of author Braden. Years later, former Dartmouth College student Tom Braden was editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate era. Book surface has slight cover soiling.

Sturdy, clean, anthology of 20 of the American Black and White historical and social protesters whose voices and activities focused on racial inequities over the 19th and 20th centuries. They are Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Prince Hall, Richard Allen, Samuel Cornish, John B Russwurm, David Walker, Nat Turner, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet,… Read more about this item

Selections of children's and youth viewpoints of "Mayflower" passengers who emigrated with religious determination from England and Holland to the "New World", its unknowns, adventures, and challenges in 1620. They landing on Cape Cod in what became Massachusetts. Together, they built a stockade community, with shelters and gardens, Plimouth Plantation.

Horizontal format illustrated 19th century youth American paperback, history, This biographical account for young readers describes the courageous work of runaway slave Harriet Tubman in helping to guide escaping slaves northward to safety and freedom via a network of other anti-slavery citizens, homes, churches.

Red paper over boards; gold spine titles. A political indictment of "how the radical left has responded to 9/11." Hudson Institute's Norman Podhoret. A featured selection of the Conservative Book Club. Inside lower jacket damp stain, corner wrap.

Essays on American and British political and economic changes after World War II. Background: British Socialists organized the Fabian Society, a planning school, training leaders, schooling speakers, writers. prposed State ownership of credit, functions: electric power, transportation, basic metals. Then Socialism made British inroads. Prolific author John T Flynn has outlined the shifts in political priorities. Book condition is better… Read more about this item

41st U.S. President. Archival B&W and color photos. Pulitzer Prize author (A. Jackson bio).

Black cloth over boards, stamped titles in red. Containing all maps, charts, illustrations, diagrams, etc. Tucked in: Photo in sepia news magazine style, presumably author-historian H.G. Wells. Classic World History reference book. At back, Chronological Table of Leading Events from 800 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clean with minor cover blemishing.

"Definitive political biography". Political conservative and Republican, popular, engaging public figure in 1980 was elected President of the United States. Respected historian and journalist Lou Cannon had observed and researched Reagan for about 25 years before focusing on Reagan's California governorship and U.S. Presidency. Complete set. The cardboard box in which these two volumes are placed as a set… Read more about this item

Introductory p.1-69, then, II. The President and his Cabinet; III. The President and Congress; IV. Foreign Relations; V. Concluding Observations. Stated First Edition F-P, (copyright page) but Book-of-the-Month 4-p. flyer tucked in (written by Henry Steele Commager) with no front end jacket pricing. Patten Foundation Indiana University Visiting Professor at London School of Economics. #4293 on front inside flap. Prior… Read more about this item

Barack Obama was elected President of the United States for two consecutive terms of four years each. Themes of this autobiography include: reach and limits of presidential power; partisan politics; international diplomacy; assembling a cabinet of advisors; global financial crisis; Affordable Care Act; strategy for Afghanistan; Wall Street reform; Deepwater Horizon environmental blowout; death of Osama bin Laden; testing for… Read more about this item