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The Johnstown Flood
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The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in David McCullough's hands it is, well, riveting. His award-winning histories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal were preceded by this account of the disastrous dam failure that drowned Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Written while the last survivors of the flood were still alive, McCul... »
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of prope... »
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New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905
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Edward's book is a very nice total history of the time period, with particularly interesting examinations of the culture. Edwards effectively tears down the notion of a sudden birth of a Progressive Era and looks at its roots in the "Gilded Age." She, in a very thoughtful way, breaks down some of the simple victomology that tends to encompass study o... »
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The Robber Barons
This 1934 book provides a history of the late 19th century that is missing from school history books. The author worked for a few years in Wall Street and... »
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