American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly JacksonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 318.9 MBOverview: A dynamic, timely history of 19th-century activists – free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes – and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s 50th […]
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly JacksonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 45.8 MBOverview: A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists—free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes—and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s fiftieth birthday, both John Adams […]
The PayPal Wars: Battles with Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. JacksonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.1 MBOverview: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the rest of the “PayPal Mafia” are now household names who’ve reshaped technology, automobiles, space travel, and politics. But two decades ago, they were unsung entrepreneurs […]
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia JacksonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 21 MBOverview: How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American […]
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire by Andrew Jackson O’ShaughnessyRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 574 MBOverview: The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been […]