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Making a Nation: The United States and Its People

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The Penguin History of the United States of America

Thoroughly revised and updated, this single volume reference traces American history from precolonial times to the present day, and discusses important issues, movements, and and personalities that helped shape the nation into a global superpower. Original.

A Rage for Order; Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

Traces the history of race relations, examines changing public attitudes, and tells the stories of those involved in Civil Rights movement

The Alcoholic Republic; An American Tradition

Recreating America’s first fifty intemperate years, when, from 1790 to 1840, Americans drank more alcoholic beverages per capita than at any other time in history, Rorabaugh examines some of the reasons why Americans drank so much

The American Occupation of Japan; The Origins of the Cold War in Asia

Argues that the occupation shaped U.S. policy towards postwar Asia