Best of
American-History

1970

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West


Dee Brown - 1970
    A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression


Studs Terkel - 1970
    Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, and writers, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the Depression affected the lives of those who experienced it firsthand.

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower


Stephen E. Ambrose - 1970
    Faced with conciliating or disagreeing with such stormy figures as Churchill, Roosevelt, and DeGaulle, and generals like Montgomery and Patton, General Eisenhower showed himself to be as skillful a diplomat as he was a strategist.Stephen E. Ambrose, associate editor of the General's official papers, analyzes his subject's decisions in The Supreme Commander, which Doubleday first published in 1970. Throughout the book Ambrose traces the steady development of Eisenhower's generalcy--from its dramatic beginnings through his time at the top post of Allied command.The New York Times Book Review said of The Supreme Commander, "It is Mr. Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center. ... General Dwight Eisenhower comes remarkably alive. ...[Ambrose's] angle of sight is so fresh and lively that one reads as if one did not know what was coming next. It is better than that: One does know what's coming next--not only the winning of a war but the making of a general--but the interest is in seeing how."This study of Eisenhower's role in the world's biggest war is absorbing as reading and invaluable as a reference.Stephen E. Ambrose was Director Emeritus of the Eisenhower Center, Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, and president of the National D- Day Museum. He was the author of many books, most recently The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisana Purchase to Today. His compilation of 1,400 oral histories from American veterans and authorship of over 20 books established him as one of the foremost historians of the Second World War in Europe. He died October 13, 2002, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives


Norman R. Yetman - 1970
    Stark descriptions of the horrors of slave auctions, and many other unforgettable details of slave life. Accompanied by 32 compelling photographs and a new preface by the editor.

In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache


James Kaywaykla - 1970
    This eyewitness account . . . recalls not only the hunger, pursuit, and strife of those years, but also the thoughts, feelings, and culture of the hunted tribe. Recommended as general reading."—Library Journal "This volume contains a great deal of interesting information."—Journal of the West "The Apache point of view [is] presented with great clarity."—Books of the Southwest "A valuable addition to the southwestern frontier shelf and long will be drawn upon and used."—Journal of Arizona History "A genuine contribution to the story of the Apache wars, and a very readable book as well."—Westerners Brand Book "Shining through every page is the unquenchable spirit that was the Apache. Inured, indeed trained, to suffering, Apaches stood strong beside Victorio, Nana, and finally Geronimo in a vain attempt to maintain those things they held more dear than life itself—freedom, homeland, dignity as human beings. A warm and vital people, the Apaches had, and have, a great deal to offer."—Arizona and the West

Black Pioneers of Science and Invention


Louis Haber - 1970
    The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history.      Includes a bibliography and an index.

The Earl of Louisiana


A.J. Liebling - 1970
    J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events which began when Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of Uncle Earl's final year in politics. First published in 1961, The Earl of Louisiana recreates a stormy era of Louisiana politics and captures the style and personality of one of the most colorful and paradoxical figures in the state's history. This new edition of the work includes a foreword by T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Huey Long: A Biography.

A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America


Ivor Noël Hume - 1970
    It is a classic, highly sought-after handbook for the professional archaeologist, museum curator, antiques dealer, collector, or social historian. Though first published more than thirty years ago, Ivor Noel Hume's guide continues to be the most useful and accurate reference on the identification of artifacts recovered from Anglo-American colonial sites.This edition contains a new preface, updated references, and corrections based on recent scholarship, in addition to the original 102 photographs and line drawings. With a list of forty-three categories, including buttons, cutlery, stoneware, and firearms, collectors and curators of early American artifacts will find this book insightful, informative, and indispensable.An acclaimed archaeologist and historian, No�l Hume understands the interests of both professionals and enthusiasts. He manages to combine out-of-the-ordinary information with a lively presentation. His extensive knowledge and experience make this richly detailed text communicate something beyond the facts--the reality of other times, places, and cultures.

Reveries at Stillmeadow; a woman's precious moments from the Stillmeadow books of Gladys Taber


Gladys Taber - 1970
    

The Mighty Eighth: A History of the Units, Men, and Machines of the Us 8th Air Force


Roger A. Freeman - 1970
    Eighth Air Force as "The Mighty" is back again in a revised edition. The most remarkable and most popular account of WWII aviation depicts the 8th from its arrival in Britain in 1942, to its spread across the country to operate from over 40 bases, on the way to becoming the largest air unit ever committed to battle. An extensively detailed and fully researched account covers intensive bomber and fighter sorties over Europe conducted by over 2,000 aircraft involving over 150,000 men. The exploits of B-17s, B-26s, and P-47s are told, along with little-known explanations of the vastly sophisticated supply chain that kept them flying. Over 700 photos of planes on the ground and in battle action depict formations and strategies, while over 150 full-color illustrations display aircraft group markings.

Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W. Morgan 1849-1853 (Maritime)


Nelson Cole Haley - 1970
    The narrative of a voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W Morgan 1948-1853.

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown


Stephen B. Oates - 1970
    In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures the man in all his complexity. The book is now back in print in an updated edition with a new prologue by the author.

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography


Merrill D. Peterson - 1970
    As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.

Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow


Alexander Kendrick - 1970
    

Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-sided American


Thomas Jefferson - 1970
    In this story of Thomas Jefferson, told in his own words, I have tried to present an intimate and rounded portrait of a great and many-sided American.

The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad


F.N. Monjo - 1970
    Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party—or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?This Level 3 I Can Read book is a captivating first-person historical fiction account of the Underground Railroad, narrated by Tommy, a ten year-old Quaker boy,. With beautiful, simple prose that folds in historical facts about slavery and the Civil War, this book makes this important period of American history accessible to beginning readers. Includes an afterword from the author F.N. Monjo that explains the historical context of the Fugitive Slave Law.Supports the Common Core Learning Standards

Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps


Stanley W. Paher - 1970
    The detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns are chronicled along with numerous B/W photos of more than 575 mining sites and towns.

The Boston Massacre


Hiller B. Zobel - 1970
    Reissued in new paperback format and design.

Life of Billie Dixon: Plainsman, Scout, and Pioneer


Olive K. Dixon - 1970
    

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans


Edward Eggleston - 1970
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Battle of April 19, 1775,: In Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville, and Charlestown, Massachusetts


Frank Warren Coburn - 1970
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The War Of The Innocents


Charles Bracelen Flood - 1970
    

Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist's View of Colonial Life and History, with a New Afterword


Ivor Noël Hume - 1970
    Published in 1963 when historical archaeology was in its infancy, Here Lies Virginia details the archaeology and excavation of Roanoke Island, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, Virginia. Combining artifacts and written records, Ivor Noel Hume provides an intimate portrait of colonial life. In his new Afterword, Noel Hume discusses the changes that have taken place in the field of historical archaeology since the book was first published thirty years ago. He uncovers both the advantages and the shortcomings of computer technology in archaeology as well as problems caused by the separation of artifact studies from archaeological site interpretation. This first paperback edition will bring back into print a treasury of the archaeological history of Virginia.

This Fabulous Century 1960-1970


Time-Life Books - 1970
    

A History of the Indians of the United States


Angie Debo - 1970
    Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated.In the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment.The most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation.Miss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized—an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy.In response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, voluntary relocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives.The result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.

General Wainwright's Story


Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1970
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The Resurrection of Richard Nixon


Jules Witcover - 1970
    

Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles


Burnette Vanstory - 1970
    Vanstory's rich narrative of the barrier islands from Ossabaw to Cumberland--and the mainland towns along the way--has become the standard popular history of Georgia's golden coast.Thoroughly revised and with over forty new illustrations, this edition traces the crucial and colorful role these islands have played from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Home, at one time or another, to the American Indians, the French, the Spanish, and the English; to buccaneers, friars, and priests; to Puritans and Scottish Highlanders; to slave traders, planters, soldiers, statesmen, and millionaires, these islands are as rich in history as they are in natural beauty.Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles now takes the reader through the years from General James Oglethorpe to President Jimmy Carter, unfolding the stories of the lives that have touched, or been touched by, the golden isles of Georgia.

Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides


William M. Fowler Jr. - 1970
    A hero of the American Revolution on land and sea, Talbot was a Rhode Island Militia officer, a successful privateer, and a U.S. Navy Captain who saw action during the Quasi War with France. This biography by Professor William M. Fowler, Jr. of Northeastern University, based in large part on the collection of Talbot papers in the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport Museum, brings us the life of a plain citizen of the new republic -- a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.

The Years of MacArthur: Volume 1: 1880-1941


D. Clayton James - 1970
    Alternately revered and vilified, MacArthur has seldom, if ever, been understood dispassionately, though more than twenty books have been written about him. This book, the first of a two-volume biography, is a portrait in depth of this military genius, from his early days down to Pearl Harbor. It is at once a chronicle of a full life and a history of the modern American army.Douglas MacArthur was born into a family steeped in military traditions. His father, Arthur, became famous through his service in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. His mother, Mary, a strong-willed woman, encouraged her son's ambition to enter West Point. When Douglas was about to take the stiff entrance examination, she admonished, "Doug, you'll win if you keep your nerve." He kept it, and won entrance, graduating first in his class in 1903.After a few incongenial years as an engineer, MacArthur was given an opportunity for leadership and administration -- his greatest talents -- and he rose steadily. By 1917, when the United States entered the World War, he was sufficiently well regarded to be appointed Chief of Staff of the crack 42nd (Rainbow) Division. Raised to the rank of Brigadier General in 1918, he led the 84th Infantry Brigade in numerous battles and subsequently was made commander of the 42nd Division. Later he administered an occupation district of the Rhineland after the Armistice. He returned home in 1919, decorated and famous.The years between the wars were often marred by disappointments. As superintendent of West point, MacArthur found his schemes for overdue reform frustrated by conservative officers. In 1922 he was sent to the Philippines, where (except for 1925-28) he served until he was appointed Chief of Staff by Hoover in 1930. While Chief of Staff, he was confronted by the difficulties of wrestling appropriations from an unwilling Congress. His tenure was marred, too, by the infamous "bonus marchers" incident, and by a growing coolness, after 1933, between himself and the Roosevelt administration. In 1935 he returned to the Philippines as military adviser to President Quezon. He retired from the American Army in 1937, staying on in the islands to serve Quezon.On July 26, 1941, MacArthur's career revived when Roosevelt appointed him commander of the newly formed United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). War was imminent; MacArthur was ready. He immediately initiated a crash program to build up Filipino military strength. As Professor James concludes, "The eve of America's darkest hour was approaching . . . Those who knew the general well had no doubt that he would respond with vigor and brilliance."

American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social and Political


Theodore Roosevelt - 1970
    But in this sense he is known chiefly as the "Rough Rider" of the Santiago campaign; whereas those who read this book will see that his experience as a volunteer officer in the war with Spain is only one incident in a life which has been singularly varied in thought and accomplishment and useful in many fields. In 1900 when American Ideals was originally published, Theodore Roosevelt was the governor of New York. During the three years from 1894 to 1897 he wrote the greater part of the essays on political subjects which are printed in the volume of American Ideals. Here you will find his theory of politics, based on honesty, courage, never-ending hard work, and fair play; and coupled with these a certain measure of expediency which without sacrificing principle strives to get things done, and to accept the second best if what he considers the first best is not attainable; realizing that in a government of universal suffrage many minds must be consulted and a majority of them brought to the same conclusion before anything can be accomplished. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909). A Hero of the Spanish-American War, he served as governor of New York (1899-1900) and U.S. Vice President (September 1901) under William McKinley. In addition to holding the elective offices he was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel of the Rough Riders, all by the age of 42, at which time he became the youngest man ever to hold the office of President. In 1906 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for this mediation in the Russo-Japanese War.

The Barnyard Epithet & Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial


J. Anthony Lukas - 1970
    

First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.


Buzz Aldrin - 1970
    Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin give us the exclusive story of Apollo 11: from the earliest preparations to the final touchdown back on Planet Earth. Theirs is the inspiring tale of a truly heroic adventure. Photographs accompany the text.

Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800


Lewis Preston Summers - 1970
    Summers' genealogical masterpiece covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, the work focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier,, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mason, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Putnam, Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, and Wyoming. Documents featured in the Annals include minutes of the county courts, marriage licenses, abstracts of deeds and wills, surveys of lands, and lists of soldiers. In addition, there is an exhaustive list of Revolutionary War soldiers from Southwest Virginia, compiled from the most reliable sources. Numerous illustrations and three large fold-out maps add to the book's considerable authority. The unusual length of the work--1,757 pages plus numerous unnumbered illustrations and maps--has compelled us to reprint the work in two parts rather than in a single, ungainly volume.

Shotgun for hire;: The story of "Deacon" Jim Miller, killer of Pat Garrett


Glenn Shirley - 1970
    

Nothing Too Daring: A Biography of Commodore David Porter, 1780-1843


David F. Long - 1970
    

The American Tradition


Clarence B. Carson - 1970
    

Arts and Crafts of Cherokee


Rodney Leftwich - 1970
    Presented here are examples of Cherokee baskets, pottery, woodcraft, beadwork, and more. Accompanying text describes the methods and techniques Cherokee craftspeople use.

The Wild Bunch


James D. Horan - 1970
    The largest and most dangerous gang in the history of the American West, they rode, robbed and killed as late as 1911. When they died, the Old West died with them.This book is the truth. It is based on actual memoirs, letters, interviews with the Wild Bunch themselves, as well as on the first-person accounts of the Pinkerton detectives who pursued them from Wyoming to the Bolivian frontier, where the history of the Wild Bunch ends.

Folktales of Mexico


Américo Paredes - 1970
    Mr. Paredes has prepared a scholarly collection of the Mexican tales that still thrive in oral literature and i the famous Mexican fiestas, which combine legend, dance, ritual, carnival, and drama in endless recombination."All levelsof Mexican social strucrture are represented in the tales since Dr. Paredes has included tales from modern, cosmopolitan Mexico Cty as well as narratives from the campo. Aside the usual stereotyped characters of much of the world's folktale tradition, we find Aztec dieties and monsters, charismatic caudillos, psychiatrists, and such famous personges as Kim Novak and Pedro de Urdemalas.... The miraculous and the mundane, the fictitious and the historical arae present .... Dr. Paredes has done an outstanding job of translating these tales into an English which retains much of the flavor of Mexican Spanish without falling into the trap of allowing the narratives to sound as if they were written for utterance by Mexican bandidos of a spaghetti western. His Introduction traces the history of the folkloristic scholarship within Mexico and points out the successes and failures of some of that scholarship. This Introduction, coupled with Dr. Dorson's Preface, which sketches the major events and influencs in the development of modern Mexico, serve to give a background against which the selected tales can be better understood. Folktales of Mexico stands as one of the few works available to non-Spanish speakers and readers which portrays with relative accuracy a Latin American tradition of oral narrative." - P. Brandt George, Folklore Forum

Prelude to the Century, 1870-1900


Time-Life Books - 1970
    A series of books chronicling our lives in powerful time capsules, from the dawn of the century -- when horses outnumbered cars 21 million to 8,000 -- to its close.

The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South


Lawrence J. Friedman - 1970
    

Joseph Ellicott & the Holland Land Company: The Opening of Western New York


William Chazanof - 1970
    

Letters on American slavery


John Rankin - 1970