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By Jo Ann Boydston (editor), John Dewey, Lilian Handlin (introduced by) and Oscar Handlin (introduced by)
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9780809328062 | 1 edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 28, 2008), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on. They deal with Jewish immigration to America and attitudes toward lands of origin, early efforts to organize American Jewish life through a variety of social structures, anti-Semitism, American Jewish religious affairs, the response of American Jewry to World Wars I and II, the participation of American Jewry in the Zionist movement, the adjustment to American economic and political life, and the flourishing of Yiddish theater...read more
By Charles Berlin and Oscar Handlin (introduced by)
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9780674017931 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on.

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Product Description: Awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in history, The Uprooted chronicles the common experiences of the millions of European immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—their fears, their hopes, their expectations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780812217889 | 2 edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 23, 2002), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in history, The Uprooted chronicles the common experiences of the millions of European immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—their fears, their hopes, their expectations.

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Product Description: This biography explores the controversies, triumphs, and failures of the presidency of James K. Polk. In this book, Sam W. Haynes places Polk's expansionist agenda in both political and social contexts and examines the nature and origins of the expansionist impulse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780321087980 | 2 edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 2001), cover price $20.67 | About this edition: This biography explores the controversies, triumphs, and failures of the presidency of James K.

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9789990103175 | Addison-Wesley, June 1, 2001, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history. Truth in History teaches how to read, how to analyze, how to discriminate. It is as helpful to the reader whose history is created daily in the news as it is to the professional historian whose field is in a crisis of disarray...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674910256 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The mentor for several generations of American historians, Handlin tackles the fundamental problems of his field--truth in history--discussing the limitations of the historian and the ways one can operate honestly within those limitations

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9781560009511 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, January 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history.
9780674910263 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1979, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: The mentor for several generations of American historians, Handlin tackles the fundamental problems of his field--truth in history--discussing the limitations of the historian and the ways one can operate honestly within those limitations

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9789681611200 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1997, cover price $13.99

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Product Description: Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans, they find, clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of their authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lilian Handlin (editor) and Oscar Handlin (editor)
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9780674326392 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States.

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9780674326408 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 25, 1997, cover price $41.50 | About this edition: Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States.

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Product Description: Brief, paperback biography that discusses former U.S. president Samuel Adams.
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9780673992932 | Longman Pub Group, January 1, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Brief, paperback biography that discusses former U.

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9781560002376 | 2 sub edition (Transaction Pub, April 1, 1996), cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This happy combination of literary essay and exceptionally well-written history, providing insights into a past still important in the twentieth century, will quickly take an honored place on the shelves of Harvardiana. Bernard Bailyn writes on the origins of Harvard and the foundations of Harvard's persistent character, structure, and style of governance, and contributes another chapter on the unhappy ending to the administration of the beloved President Kirkland (x8xo-i8z8), who presided over but could not control a period of profound change...read more
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9780674354449 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, August 11, 1995), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This happy combination of literary essay and exceptionally well-written history, providing insights into a past still important in the twentieth century, will quickly take an honored place on the shelves of Harvardiana.

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Product Description: Describes the man and the effect his inventions and innovations had on the economy of the new nation.
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9781886746329 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins College Div, October 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the man and the effect his inventions and innovations had on the economy of the new nation.

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Product Description: The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life...read more
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9781886746190 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins College Div, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored.

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Product Description: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years.
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9780316343152 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years

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9781886746213 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins College Div, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years.
9780673393401 | Longman Pub Group, May 1, 1981, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years

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Product Description: This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.
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9780060171537 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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9780060955007 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.

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Product Description: This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America's least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye. Herbert Hoover's career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States: humble beginnings surmounted by hard work and tremendous ambition, wealth, public service and, eventually, the presidency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780881337051 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, December 1, 1992), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America's least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye.

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060391430 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1992, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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Product Description: As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasants society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice...read more
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9780674079861 | Rev enl su edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience.

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060390921 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1989, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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9781555530211 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It revealed for the first time the importance of political action in the development of the American free enterprise system...read more
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9780674146914 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $30.50 | About this edition: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy.

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Compiles the observations and impressions of Europeans who have travelled to the U.S. from the 1700's
By Oscar Handlin (editor)
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9780674884700 | Reissue edition (Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Compiles the observations and impressions of Europeans who have travelled to the U.

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060390594 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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9780884640110 | Anti Defamation League of Bnai, June 1, 1986, cover price $2.50

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9780837193342 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1977), cover price $41.95

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