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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “seth c bruggeman”
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  • Lost on the Freedom Trail

    The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston

    by Seth C. Bruggeman ...
    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    Winner of the 2023 Society for History in the Federal Government Book PrizeBoston National Historical Park is one of America's most popular heritage destinations, drawing in millions of visitors annually. Tourists flock there to see the site of the Boston Massacre, to relive Paul Revere's midnight ride, and to board Old Ironsides—all of these bound together by the iconic Freedom Trail, which ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Commemoration

    The American Association for State and Local History Guide

    Edited by Seth C. Bruggeman ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and all manner of public historians who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. Its fourteen short essays are intended as tools for practitioners, students, and anyone else confronted with common problems in commemorative ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • How the Post Office Created America

    A History

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    “’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street JournalA masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Neither Snow Nor Rain

    A History of the United States Postal Service

    by Devin Leonard ...
    " [The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense." — USA TodayFounded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, and yet, it is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Black Cabinet

    The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

    by Jill Watts ...
    An in-depth history exploring the evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and '40s as FDR's Black Cabinet.In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Long Road to Hard Truth

    The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    by Robert Leon Wilkins ...
    In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Pursuit of Privilege

    A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

    by Clifton Hood ...
    A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Who Owns America's Past?

    The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

    by Robert C. Post ...
    When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public HistoryIn 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A People's Art History of the United States

    250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

    by Nicolas Lampert ...
    Series series New Press People's History
    Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day.Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • e-Pedia: United States Presidential Election

    The election of the President and Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a slate of members of the U.S

    by Wikipedia contributors ...
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The election of the President and Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a set of members of the U.S. Electoral College. These electors then cast direct votes for the President and Vice President. If both votes result in an absolute ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grassroots at the Gateway

    Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

    by Clarence Lang ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence Lang describes how the advances made in earlier decades were undermined by a black middle class ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD