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Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill James's Baseball Abstract transformed the way mana...

American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. The story of the cherry tree, for example, tells us nothing about George Washington's actual childhood, but surely it tells us something about what Americans wanted in the father of their country-an incorruptible leader of the people. Along the same lines, the story of Betsy Ross's flag tells us nothing about how ...

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American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. All 0these stories have one thing in common: they are all a lot of fun to read.

This work is an engaging exploration of the process of historical research, following historians as they search for solutions to the greatest mysteries of all time.

Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo."--JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball"Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversi...

Why did the eagle become our national symbol (even though Ben Franklin preferred the turkey)? How did Gilbert Stuart's image of George Washington end up on the dollar bill? Did Betsy Ross really have anything to do with the Stars and Stripes? Here are the stories behind America's most enduring images.

Frontmatter -- Avant-Propos -- Exploitation quantitative et cartographique des comptes numériques et sommaires (1819-1826) / LE ROY, EMMANUEL / DUMONT, LADURIE PAUL -- Taille, maladie et société : essai d'histoire anthropologique / ARON, JEAN-PAUL -- Table analytique

The fascinating untold stories of America's founding fathers!The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence. From the violent brawl between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon in the halls of Congress, to George Washington's battle against...

Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo."--JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball"Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversi...

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We Hold These Truths... presents 54 historically powerful quotes from the country's founders and founding documents and provides rich narratives that highlight their astounding, and generally unknown, origins.

An Eye-Opening Journey Through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES of AMERICAN HISTORY Did Leif Ericsson beat Columbus to America? Did Pocahontas really save John Smith? Was Amelia Earhart a spy? Who killed JFK? These are just a few of the intriguing mysteries of American history. Unsolved Mysteries of American History re-creates the most mystifying events of our past and follows some of our greatest historians as they search for answers. Like seasoned detectives, these historians gather ev...

Now in paper--the inside story of two dozen of the greatest love stories of our times, each accompanied by a striking black and white photo of the couple--the perfect Valentine's Day or Mother's Day gift There are more kinds of love than anyone-even poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning-could count. Here are two dozen great loves from across the spectrum: some married, some not, some lasting, some not. Here are the stories of Edith and Woodrow Wilso...