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New Acquisitions

May 2011

Recent WHS Library Acquisitions

General Collection

BV4262 S437 2009
Seay, Scott D.
Hanging between heaven and earth : capital crime, execution preaching, and theology in early New England.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2009.

BX8947 O35 C37 2009
Cassity, Michael J.
Divided hearts : the Presbyterian journey through Oklahoma history.
Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2009.

D619 D64 2011
Doenecke, Justus D.
Nothing less than war : a new history of America's entry into World War I.
Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.

D670 B83 2010
Budreau, Lisa M. (Lisa Mary), 1957-
Bodies of war : World War I and the politics of commemoration in America, 1919-1933.
New York : New York University Press, c2010.

D763 N4 B436 2008
Bennett, David, 1943-
Magnificent disaster : the failure of the Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944.
Drexel Hill, PA : Casemate, 2008.

D769.347 B87 2006
Burns, Dwayne.
Jump into the valley of the shadow.
Havertown, Pa. : London : Casemate ; Greenhill [distributor], 2006.

D769.8 A6 R64 2009
Robinson, Greg, 1966-
Tragedy of democracy : Japanese confinement in North America.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

D783 W37 2011
Watterson, Rodney K.
32 in '44 : building the Portsmouth submarine fleet in World War II.
Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c2011.

D802 F8 S479 2011
Sheeran, James.
No surrender : a World War II memoir.
New York : Berkley Caliber, 2011.

D805 G3 L417 2011
Levinson, Leila.
Gated grief : the daughter of a GI concentration camp liberator discovers a legacy of trauma.
Brule, Wis. : Cable Pub., c2011.

E76.6 R43 2009
Reconfigurations of Native North America : an anthology of new perspectives.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2009.

E78 G3 W25 2011
Wallis, Neill J.
Swift Creek gift : vessel exchange on the Atlantic Coast.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

E98 D9 T57 2011
Tipi : heritage of the Great Plains.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Seattle : Brooklyn Museum ; In association with University of Washington Press, c2011.

E99 C5 B744 2011
Boulware, Tyler.
Deconstructing the Cherokee nation : town, region, and nation among eighteenth-century Cherokees.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.

E99 D1 D54 2009
Diedrich, Mark.
Ignatius Court : "Dakota congressman" of the Fort Totten Reservation.
Rochester, MN : Coyote Books, c2009.

E99 I7 M24 2011
MacLeitch, Gail D.
Imperial entanglements : Iroquois change and persistence on the frontiers of empire.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

E169.12 R497 2011
Richter, Daniel K.
Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

E184 A1 D2827 2010
Davis, Danny W.
Phinehas Priesthood : violent vanguard of the Christian Identity movement.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

E184 A75 D383 2011
Davis, Rocío G.
Relative histories : mediating history in Asian American family memoirs.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2011.

E184 F4 B35 2011
Baldoz, Rick, 1969-
Third Asiatic invasion : empire and migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946.
New York : New York University Press, c2011.

E184 G3 H64 2011
Honeck, Mischa, 1976-
We are the revolutionists : German-speaking immigrants & American abolitionists after 1848.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.

E185.86 M3625 2006
Mann, Eric.
Katrina's legacy : white racism and black reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Los Angeles, CA : Frontlines Press, c2006.

E208 A425 2011
Allison, Robert J.
American Revolution : a concise history.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

E208 R463 2011
Revolutionary founders : rebels, radicals, and reformers in the making of the nation.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

E209 R89 2011
Rozbicki, Michal.
Culture and liberty in the age of the American Revolution.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

E263 P4 P47 2010
Pennsylvania's revolution.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.

E354 B55 2009
Black, Jeremy.
War of 1812 in the age of Napoleon.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2009.

E355.1 C485 E83 2011
Eshelman, Ralph E.
Travel guide to the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake : eighteen tours in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

E415.9 F4 C66 2011
Cook, Robert J., 1958-
Civil War senator : William Pitt Fessenden and the fight to save the American republic.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.

E449 A15554 2011
Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola.
Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

E450 B93 B37 2010
Barker, Gordon S., 1952-
Imperfect revolution : Anthony Burns and the landscape of race in antebellum America.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2010.

E457.92 2011
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln on war.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2011.

E467.1 R2 A4 2010
Ramseur, Stephen Dodson, 1837-1864.
Bravest of the brave : the correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

E468.9 S65 2011
Smith, Andrew F., 1946-
Starving the South : how the North won the Civil War.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.

E559.5 1st M37 2010
Martin, George Winston, 1954-
"I will give them one more shot" : Ramsey's 1st Regiment Georgia Volunteers.
Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2010.

E612 L6 W48 2010
Wheelan, Joseph.
Libby Prison breakout : the daring escape from the notorious Civil War prison.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2010.

E621 E24 2011
Eaton, Harriet, 1818-1884.
This birth place of souls : the Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

E745 S57 C75 2010
Crosswell, D. K. R. (Daniel K. R.)
Beetle : the life of general Walter Bedell Smith.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.

E748 D24 M36 2009
Manning, Christopher.
William L. Dawson and the limits of Black electoral leadership.
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2009.

E840 K74 2011
Kreps, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth)
Coalitions of convenience : United States military interventions after the Cold War.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

E840 L38 2011
Latham, Michael E.
Right kind of revolution : modernization, development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.

E840 L417 2010
Leebaert, Derek.
Magic and mayhem : [the delusions of American foreign policy from Korea to Afghanistan].
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.

E840.8 S79 H87 2011
Hunt, Jim, 1945-
Warrior : Frank Sturgis--the CIA's #1 assassin-spy who nearly killed Castro but was ambushed by Watergate.
New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2011.

E846 C58 2010
Colman, Jonathan.
Foreign policy of Lyndon B. Johnson : the United States and the world, 1963-1969.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

E876 A145 2011
1980s : a critical and transitional decade.
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

F73.44 R39 2010
Rawson, Michael.
Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2010.

F230 S58 2010
Showdown in Virginia : the 1861 convention and the fate of the Union.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

F232 S5 A46 2009
"Answer at once" : letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

F262 P25 M946 2009
Myers, Barton A., 1980-
Executing Daniel Bright : race, loyalty, and guerrilla violence in a coastal Carolina community, 1861-1865.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.

F301 D36 2011
Davis, William C., 1946-
Rogue republic : how would-be patriots waged the shortest revolution in American history.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

F334 B653 A773 2008
Arrington, Richard.
There's hope for the world : the memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's first African American mayor.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

F592 C33 R46 2011
Remley, David A.
Kit Carson : the life of an American border man.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.

F731 B35 R67 2010
Rostad, Lee.
House of Bair : sheep, Cadillacs and Chippendale.
Helena, Mont. : Sweetgrass Books, 2010.

Select Magazines/Newspapers

Schulhaus reporter = Schoolhouse reporter.
Austin, Tex. : German Free School Guild

Indiana minority business magazine.
Indianapolis, IN : IMBD, Inc.

Broadside : the magazine of the Library of Virginia.
Richmond, VA : Library of Virginia

Wisconsin Government Publications

WI Gov. Pub: CRI 2.1/2:H 65/200?-
Homicides in Wisconsin / Wisconsin Statistical Analysis Center, Office of Justice Assistance.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub: CRI 2.2:M 7/2005-
Disproportionate Minority Contact : An Analysis of Brown, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, and Rock counties/ Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance.
Available on the Internet: link

WI Gov. Pub: GO HOM.1:2010/2
The Final Report of the Wisconsin Homeland Security Council / Wisconsin Homeland Security Council.
Available on the Internet: pdf

United States Government Publications

I 29.86 /4:G 48 /2
Cultural Landscape Report for Glenmont, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey / National Park Service, Boston, 2010.

I 29.86 /4:M 83
Cultural Landscape Report for Morro Bay State Park Campground, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation / National Park Service, Boston, 2010.

I 29.86 /4:G 74 /V.1
Cultural Landscape Report for Governors Island National Monument / National Park Service, Boston, 2010.

I 29.86 /4:R 63
Cultural Landscape Report for Roger Williams National Memorial / National Park Service, Boston, 2010.

I 29.86 /4:AT 9
Atwood-Higgins Historic District Cultural Landscape Report and Outbuildings Historic Structures Report, Cape Cod National Seashore / National Park Service, Boston, 2010.

PR 44.9:2011
Economic Report of the President transmitted to the Congress February 2011 / United States Government Printing Office, 2011.

AE 2.114:2009 /Bk.1
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Barack Obama, 2009 / United States Government Printing Office, 2010.

PR 44.8:D 36M 23
Macondo the Gulf Oil Disaster, Chief Counsel's Report / National Commission on the BP Deepwater horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 2011.

Y 3.2:C 76 /3 /C 73 /2
Congressional Oversight Panel February Oversight Report, Executive Compensation restrictions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program / United States Government Printing Office, 2011.

Y 3.2:C 76 /3 /T 17 /2
TARP and other Government Assistance for AIG Hearing before the Congressional Oversight Panel / United States Government Printing Office, 2010.

Canadian Government Publications

New Collections in the Archives of the WHS

Local Government Records

Manuscript Collections

| Posted on May 21, 2011


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