Product Description: A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom. In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy―one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war...read more

Product Description: At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow a hole in the enemy lines. Then a specially trained division of African American infantry would spearhead a powerful assault to exploit the breach created by the explosion...read more

Product Description: In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow a hole in the enemy lines...read more

A National Book Award finalist examines the United States' turbulent history of ethnic assimilation and racial strife through the experience of the legendary World War I regiments, the fabled Harlem Hell Fighters of the 369th infantry and the legendary 'lost battalion' of the 77th division. Reprint.

The author of The Crater recreates Lincoln's youth, from his mother's horrible death and his disapproving father, to his trip down the Mississippi where he experiences the violence and pleasures of frontier life. (view table of contents)

Explores the image of the wilderness hero found in American literature (view table of contents)

The author of The Crater recreates Lincoln's youth, from his mother's horrible death and his disapproving father, to his trip down the Mississippi where he experiences the violence and pleasures of frontier life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A lively exploration of the Planet of the Apes films as racial allegory. In 1968, Planet of the Apes became a megahit movie both in the US and abroad, inspiring four film sequels, two TV series, several comic series, and hundreds of millions of dollars in worldwide merchandising...read more

Examines the fundamental ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on dime novels, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of political figures

Product Description: Book by Slotkin, Richard

Though aiming to go straight as a consultant to a film company turning out nickel Westerns about his life, Henry Starr, under the cover of scouting film locations, returns to robbing banks

Product Description: In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a myth redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675–77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired "errand into the wilderness...read more

Product Description: For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675–77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, carrying out a divinely inspired "errand into the wilderness...read more