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America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience (Critical Issues in American History)
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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Recent bestsellers by Niall Ferguson and John Keegan have created tremendous popular interest in World War I. In America's Great War prominent historian Robert H. Zieger examines the causes, prosecution, and legacy of this bloody conflict from a frequently overlooked perspective, that of American in...Read More

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the see...Read More

American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (The American Moment)
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger, Gilbert J. Gall
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Highly acclaimed and widely read, American Workers, American Unions (first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new chapters on the pre–1920 period, as wel...Read More

Republicans and Labour, 1919-29
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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The CIO, 1935-1955
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the Americ...Read More

Southern Labor In Transition: 1940-1995
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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Twentieth Century American Biography Series: John L. Lewis (Twayne's Twentieth-Century American Biography Series)
Book Title Author(s) : Robert H. Zieger
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A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Historical Guides to American Authors)
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Although perceived in his own day as a lightweight chronicler of 1920s trends and fads, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is now recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Whether for his classic novels (The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night), his frequently anthologized...Read More

Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster
Book Title Author(s) : Alan Derickson
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In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The ...Read More

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
Book Title Author(s) : Patrick Huber
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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of ...Read More

 

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