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Compton Collection 2015 Compton Collection 2015 The Compton collection of American history books is located on the upper lever of the Student Research room (2M.25) and is arranged in alphabetical order. Aaron, D. c. and R. j. c. Bendiner (1970). The strenuous decade : a social and intellectual record of the 1930's. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books. Abraham, H. J. (1985). Justices and Presidents : a political history of appointments to the Supreme Court. New York, Oxford University Press. Abrams, R. M. and L. W. Levine (1971). The shaping of twentieth-century America : Interpretive Essays. Boston, Little and Brown. Acheson, D. (1970). Present at the creation : my years in the State Department. London, Hamilton. Acheson, D. and D. P. a. t. c. Acheson (1971). The Korean war. New York, Norton. Adams, A. and G. Rounds (1965). Trail drive : a true narrative of cowboy life from Andy Adams' Log of a cowboy. New York, Holiday House. Based on Log of a Cowboy, first published in 1903, it is an account of a trail drive from the Mexican border to the Blackfoot Indian Agency in Montana in the 1880s. Adams, A. D. (1908). The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America, 1808-1831, pp. xi. 307. Ginn & Co.: Boston & London. Adams, H. (1899). John Randolph. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company. Adams, H. and H. Agar (1948). The formative years Volume 1. London, Collins. Adams, H. and H. Agar (1948). The formative years volume 2. London, Collins. Adams, H. and R. McColley (1996). John Randolph : a biography. Armonk, N.Y. ; London, M.E. Sharpe. Adams, H., et al. (1983). Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The education. New York, N.Y. Cambridge, Literary Classics of the United States University of Cambridge Press. Adams, J., et al. (1959). The Adams-Jefferson letters. Chapel Hill, N.C., Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg Va. by the University of North Carolina Press. Adams, S. and E. Lawson (1946). Samuel Adams : selections from his writings. New York, International Publishers. Adams, T. S., et al. (1914). Labor Problems, a text book, New York. Adams, W. P., et al. (1980). The first American constitutions : republican ideology and the making of the state constitutions in the revolutionary era. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press. Addams, J. (1910). Twenty years at Hull-House : with autobiographical notes. New York, The Macmillan Co. Adler, S. (1957). The isolationist impulse : its twentieth-century reaction. London ; New York, Abelard-Schuman. Adler, S. (1965). The uncertain giant, 1921-1941 : American foreign policy between the wars. New York, Macmillan. Agar, H. (1966). The price of union. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Agee, J. and W. Evans (1960). Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Agresto, J. (1984). The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy. Ithaca, N.Y. ; London, Cornell University Press. Ahlstrom, S. E. (1972). A religious history of the American people volume 1. New Haven, Yale University Press. Aichele, G. J. (1989). Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--soldier, scholar, judge. Boston, Twayne Publishers. Aitken, H. G. J. (1971). Did slavery pay? : readings in the economics of black slavery in the United States. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Akers, C. W. (1980). Abigail Adams, an American woman. Boston, Little, Brown. Albertson, D. (1963). Eisenhower as President, Hill and Wang. Albion, R. G. and R. H. Connery (1962). Forrestal and the Navy, Columbia U,P. Alden, J. R. (1954). The American Revolution, 1775-1783. New York,, Harper. Alden, J. R. (1984). George Washington : a biography. Baton Rouge ; London, Louisiana. Alexander, C. C. (1969). Nationalism in American thought 1930-1945, Rand. Allen, F. L. (1931). Only yesterday : an informal history of the nineteen-twenties. New York ; London, Harper & Brothers. Allen, F. L. (1961). Since Yesterday, etc, pp. xii. 292. Bantam Books: New York. Allen, F. L. (1965). Since yesterday : the Nineteen-Thirties in America, September 3,1929-September 3, 1939, Bantam; Transworld. Allen, H. C. and C. P. Hill (1957). British essays in American history. London, E. Arnold. Allen, H. C. and R. Thompson (1976). Contrast and connection : bicentennial essays in Anglo- American history. London, G. Bell & Sons Ltd. Allen, R. L. and P. P. Allen (1974). Reluctant reformers : racism and social reform movements in the United States. Washington, D.C., Howard University Press. Allen, T. B. (2010). Tories : fighting for the king in America's first civil war. New York, Harper. A history of the Americans who chose to side with the British in the American Revolution that sheds important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed because they remained faithful to their mother country. Alley, R. S. and United States. Supreme Court. (1988). The Supreme Court on church and state. New York, Oxford University Press. Allmendinger, B. (1992). The cowboy : representations of labor in an American work culture. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press. Allport, G. W. (1958). The nature of prejudice : abridged. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Allsop, K. (1961). The bootleggers : the story of Chicago's prohibition era. London, Hutchinson. Allswang, J. M. (1977). Bosses, machines, and urban voters : an American symbiosis. Port Washington ; London, Kennikat Press. Allswang, J. M. (1978). The New Deal and American politics : a study in political change. New York ; Chichester, Wiley. Alperovitz, G. (1965). Atomic diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam : the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power. New York, Simon and Schuster. Alter, J. (2006). The defining moment : FDR's hundred days and the triumph of hope. New York ; London, Simon & Schuster. Alterman, E. M., Kevin. (2012). The cause: The fight for American liberalism, From Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama Viking. Altmeyer, A. J. (1966). The Formative years of social security. [With portraits.], pp. xi. 314. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison. Altschuler, G. C. (1982). Race, ethnicity, and class in American social thought 1865-1919. Arlington Heights, Davidson ; London : Eurospan [distributor]. Amar, A. R. (1998). The Bill of Rights : creation and reconstruction. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press. Ambrose, S. E. (1967). Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 : The decision to halt at the Elbe, Norton. Ambrose, S. E. (1985). Rise to globalism : American foreign policy since 1938. New York, Penguin Books. Ambrose, S. E. (1995). D-Day, June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II. New York ; London, Touchstone. Ambrose, S. E. (1996). Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the opening of the American West. New York ; London, Simon & Schuster. Ambrosius, L. E. (1988). Woodrow Wilson and the American diplomatic tradition : the treaty fight in perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. American Anti-Slavery, S. (1864). Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at its third decade, held in the city of Philadelphia, Dec. 3rd and 4th, 1863, with an appendix and a catalogue of Anti-Slavery publications in America from 1750 to 1863, New York. Ammerman, D. (1974). In the common cause : American response to the Coercive Acts of 1774. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia. Ammon, H. (1971). James Monroe: the quest for national identity. New York, McGraw-Hill. Ammon, H. (1973). The Genet mission. New York, Norton. Anderson, T. (1961). Jacobson's Development of American Political Thought, Appleton-Century. Andrews, C. M. (1931). The colonial background of the American revolution : four essays in American colonial history. New Haven London, Yale university press H. Milford, Oxford university press. Appleby, J. O. (2000). Inheriting the revolution : the first generation of Americans. Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Belknap Press. Aptheker, H. (1960). The American Revolution, 1763-1783. New York,, International Publishers. Aptheker, H. (1989). Abolitionism : a revolutionary movement. Boston, Twayne Publishers. Arnesen, E., et al. (1998). Labor histories : class, politics, and the working class experience. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press. Arnold, A. B. (2014). Fueling the Gilded Age : railroads, miners, and disorder in Pennsylvania coal country. New York, New York University Press. Arsenault, R. (2006). Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Arthur, J. (1989). The unfinished constitution : philosophy and constitutional practice. Belmont, Calif., Wadsworth Pub. Co. Asinof, E. (1990). 1919 : America's loss of innocence. New York, Donald I. Fine Inc. Athearn, R. G. (1960). High country empire : the high plains and Rockies. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press. Atherton, L. (1954). Main Street on the Middle Border. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. Auerbach, J. S. (1976). Unequal justice : lawyers and social change in modern America. New York, Oxford University Press. Auerbach, J. S. (1983). Justice without law? New York, Oxford University Press. Auerbach, J. S. c. (1969). American labor: the twentieth century. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill. Ayers, E. L. (1984). Vengeance and justice : crime and punishment in the 19th-century American South. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press. Ayers, E. L. (1992). The promise of the new South : life after Reconstruction. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press. Ayers, E. L. (1996). All over the map : rethinking American regions. Baltimore ; London, Johns Hopkins
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