History
Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose
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In the ninety years since the Titanic sank, countless sermons and editorials, poems, songs and ads, socialists and chauvinists, Christians, reformers, anarchists, and pitchmen have drawn on the power of the century's worst disaster to move their audience.
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
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"A pioneer work in…the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft." —Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University
Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Reissued for the 200th anniversary: "High and heroic adventure.... An exhilarating story of bravery, self-discipline, and firm resolve, and Mr. Hawke tells it uncommonly well."—The New Yorker
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type
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"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
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An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.