New Acquisitions for America (General) and the United States http://www.oberlinlibstaff.com/library/feeds/AmeGen.xml Recent additions to the collections of Oberlin College Libraries for America (General) and the United States Copyright 2012; Oberlin College Libraries en-us Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:15:30 EST Not in our lifetimes : the future of black politics / Michael C. Dawson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536162 Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia : the making of a global president / Dinesh Sharma. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536104 Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever / Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3529750 Samuel Adams : the life of an American revolutionary / John K. Alexander. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3519484 Edward Bancroft : scientist, author, spy / Thomas J. Schaeper. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3519470 In the words of women : the Revolutionary War and the birth of the nation, 1765-1799 / Louise V. North, Janet M. Wedge, and Landa M. Freeman. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539800 The quarters and the fields : slave families in the non-cotton South / Damian Alan Pargas. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3404072 On slavery's border : Missouri's small-slaveholding households, 1815- 1865 / Diane Mutti Burke. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3519480 Ten letters : the stories Americans tell their President / Eli Saslow. New York : Doubleday, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536191 Remixing the Civil War : meditations on the sesquicentennial / edited by Thomas J. Brown. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536178 Lincoln and the Civil War / Michael Burlingame. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536152 Unbecoming British : how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation / Kariann Akemi Yokota. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536194 When Benjamin Franklin met the Reverend Whitefield : enlightenment, revival, and the power of the printed word / Peter Charles Hoffer. Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539186 Native American freemasonry : associationalism and performance in America / Joy Porter. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539149 Kearny's march : the epic creation of the American West, 1846-1847 / Winston Groom. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539654 Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War / Tony Horwitz. New York : Henry Holt, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3531554 The 1980s : a critical and transitional decade / edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3519464 A narrative of the mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians : from its commencement, in the year 1740, to the close of the year 1808 ... interspersed with anecdotes, historical facts, speeches of Indians, and other interesting matter / by John Heckewelder. Philadelphia : M'Carty & Davis, 1820. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3542105 1948 : Harry Truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed America's role in the world / David Pietrusza. New York : Union Square Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3531698 The people of the river's mouth : in search of the Missouria Indians / Michael Dickey. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3406092 I fear I shall never leave this island : life in a Civil War prison / [edited and annotated by] David R. Bush. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536307 A companion to Thomas Jefferson / edited by Francis D. Cogliano. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3536293 Culture and customs of the Sioux Indians / Gregory O. Gagnon. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3529744 Lincoln, Inc. : selling the sixteenth president in contemporary America / Jackie Hogan. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539492 Obama on the couch : inside the mind of the president / Justin A. Frank. New York : Free Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539497 Vonnegut and Hemingway : writers at war / Lawrence R. Broer. Columbia : University of South Carolina, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539448 Redefining American identity : from Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama / Ben Railton. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539255 Atlantis lost : the American experience with De Gaulle, 1958-1969 / Sebastian Reyn. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press c2010. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539229 Remembering roadside America : preserving the recent past as landscape and place / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539509 Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Kenneth J. Winkle. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539449 Red, white, black, and blue : black anger, white ignorance, and racism in Obama's America / A. Christian van Gorder and Lewis T. Tait, Jr. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539507 Daisy petals and mushroom clouds : LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the ad that changed American politics / Robert Mann. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539468 Why America failed : the roots of imperial decline / Morris Berman. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3539533 Clovis lithic technology : investigation of a stratified workshop at the Gault Site, Texas / Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson ; with William A. Dickens ... [et al.] ; foreword by Michael B. Collins. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540607 The Jefferson-Hemings controversy : report of the Scholars Commission / edited by Robert F. Turner. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540638 Hollywood left and right : how movie stars shaped American politics / Steven J. Ross. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540630 Freedom rights : new perspectives on the civil rights movement / edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3542197 The struggle in Black and brown : African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era / edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3542237 Women and knowledge in Mesoamerica : from east L.A. to Anahuac / Paloma Martinez-Cruz. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540678 Thyra J. Edwards : Black activist in the global freedom struggle / Gregg Andrews. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3478616 The South American expeditions, 1540-1545 / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ; translated with notes by Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3541833 The materiality of freedom : archaeologies of postemancipation life / edited by Jodi A. Barnes. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3541811 The Cold War's last battlefield : Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America / Edward A. Lynch. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3541773 Defending their own in the cold : the cultural turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans / Marc Zimmerman. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3541778 The future is ours : [minority politics, political behavior, and the multiracial era of American politics] / Shaun Bowler, Gary M. Segura. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press/SAGE, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551241 Slavery in the American republic : developing the federal government, 1791-1861 / David F. Ericson. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551176 Racial innocence : performing American childhood from slavery to civil rights / Robin Bernstein. New York : New York University Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551167 My southern home ; or, the South and its people / by William Wells Brown ; edited and with an introduction by John Ernest. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551155 The 1970s : a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / Thomas Borstelmann. Princton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551295 Objectifying China, imagining America : Chinese commodities in early America / Caroline Frank. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551260 America and the world : culture, commerce, conflict / Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551208 Trust in Black America : race, discrimination, and politics / Shayla C. Nunnally. New York : New York University Press, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551185 Barack Obama : political frontiers and racial agency / Ama Mazama [and] Molefi Kete Asante, editors. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press/SAGE, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551213 Just neighbors? : research on African American and Latino relations in the United States / Edward Telles, Mark Q. Sawyer, and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, editors. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3551150 Mei guo di mi wang. [1963]. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553269 The journal of Major John Norton, 1816 / originally edited with introductions and notes by Carl F. Klinck and James J. Talman ; introduction to the reissue and additional notes by Carl Benn. Toronto : Champlain Society, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553343 Conquered into liberty : two centuries of battles along the great warpath that made the American way of war / Eliot A. Cohen. New York : Free Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540324 American exceptionalisms : from Winthrop to Winfrey / edited by Sylvia Soderlind and James Taylor Carson. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553119 Native acts : Indian performance, 1603-1832 / edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke ; afterword by Philip J. Deloria. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3552777 Martin Luther King's biblical epic : his final, great speech / Keith D. Miller. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553154 Re-creating the circle : the renewal of American Indian self- determination / edited by LaDonna Harris, Stephen M. Sachs, and Barbara Morris. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553163 A tour of Reconstruction : travel letters of 1875 / Anna Dickinson ; edited by J. Matthew Gallman. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3540343 Inside the eagle's head : an American Indian college / Angelle A. Khachadoorian. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3302346 A life at the margins : keeping the political vision / Paul von Blum. Porter Ranch, CA ; Northridge, CA : New World African Press, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3387177 Pablo Tac, indigenous scholar : writing on Luiseno language and colonial history, c. 1840 / Lisbeth Haas ; with art by James Luna ; including the complete manuscript of Pablo Tac, transcribed by Marta Eguia ... [et al.]. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3552779 Who we are : Blacks / by the New Strategist editors. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3500418 Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution / by Russell M. Lawson. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3404269 Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3541995 Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / edited by Warren R. Hofstra. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3554024 Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3553980 The chameleon president : the curious case of George W. Bush / Clarke Rountree. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3554448 America in the forties / Ronald Allen Goldberg ; foreword by John Robert Greene. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012. http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b3531796