Product Description: Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's everyday lives during this fateful era...read more

Product Description: In the nearly nineteen years since the destruction of the Wall that divided East from West Berlin, Germans have struggled with the challenges of reunification. The task has been dauntingunifying two countries with a common language but mutually hostile political and economic systems...read more

Product Description: The first period of the twentieth century - that stretch of years beginning in the 1870s and ending with the United States' entry into World War I - is known as the Gilded Age. This was the era of the "Robber Barons" and the origin of modern America...read more

The native-son historian conducts a narrative tour of the Mountain State's historical highways and byways, pointing out significant past and present events, landmarks, and achievements

Product Description: "An excellent book, lively and well written, and likely to appeal to a wider audience than the typical academic monograph."--William D. Phillips, Jr., author of The Worlds of Christopher ColumbusSinking Columbus describes and analyzes the failure of the 1992 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage from Spain to the New World, once "universally" hailed as the "discovery of America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Taylor, David A.