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Free Download American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension: Practitioners as Change Agents in Foreign Relations (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy) by Bruce Gregory
English | January 13, 2024 | ISBN: 3031389166 | 508 pages | MOBI | 0.93 Mb
This is the first book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. It tells the story of how change agents in practitioner communities – foreign service officers, cultural diplomats, broadcasters, citizens, soldiers, covert operatives, democratizers, and presidential aides – revolutionized traditional government-to-government diplomacy and moved diplomacy with the public into the mainstream. This deeply researched study bridges practice and multi-disciplinary scholarship. It challenges the common narrative that U.S. public diplomacy is a Cold War creation that was folded into the State Department in 1999 and briefly found new life after 9/11. It documents historical turning points, analyzes evolving patterns of practice, and examines societal drivers of an American way of diplomacy: a preference for hard power over soft power, episodic commitment to public diplomacy correlated with war and ambition,an information-dominant communication style, and American exceptionalism. It is an account of American diplomacy’s public dimension, the people who shaped it, and the socialization and digitalization that today extends diplomacy well beyond the confines of embassies and foreign ministries.

Free Download American Decades, 2010-2019
by Editors, Gale;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781414436067 | 720 pages | PDF, True EPUB | 217.63 MB

Free Download 150 Great Americans (Essence of American History) by William J. Bennett, John T.E. Cribb
English | October 18, 2022 | ISBN: 140032579X | 224 pages | PDF | 4.57 Mb
Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J. Bennett and John T. E. Cribb published a 365-day almanac of our nation’s history. Now, in this updated and expanded series compiled from The American Patriot’s Almanac, Bennett and Cribb’s masterful grasp of our history offers 150 more great Americans.

Free Download Luther Adams, "Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 146961894X, 080783422X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.4 mb
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks to move to urban centers in the South to make their homes. Adams defines "home" as a commitment to life in the South that fueled the emergence of a more cohesive sense of urban community and enabled southern blacks to maintain their ties to the South as a place of personal identity, family, and community. This commitment to the South energized the rise of a more militant movement for full citizenship rights and respect for the humanity of black people.

Free Download Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
English | April 30, 1999 | ISBN: 0765804646, 1138540358 | True EPUB | 690 pages | 1.6 MB
Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvard studying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism.

Free Download Emily Clark, "Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0807132373, 0807134465 | EPUB | pages: 138 | 0.6 mb
In 1927, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Their convent was the first in the territory that would eventually be part of the United States. Notable for establishing a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony’s military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis among the enslaved population of colonial Louisiana that contributed to the development of a large, active AfroCatholic congregation in New Orleans. In Voices from an Early American Convent, Emily Clark extends the boundaries of early American women’s history through the firsthand accounts of these remarkable French female missionaries, in particular Marie Madeleine Hachard.

Free Download Francois-Georges Dreyfus, "Unrecognized Resistance: The Franco-American Experience in World War Two"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0765802406, 1138517666 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.4 mb
At a time of differing perceptions of and frayed relations between the historic alliance between France and the United States, this volume merits the attention of serious people in government service and a wider public. It describes deeds of enormous courage, performed at great risk, in a time of crisis. The behavior of American soldiers and intelligence officers, and the extraordinary support from ordinary French men and women in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, is a story too little remembered today, and even less frequently told. This volume is an edited summary of what transpired at a unique colloquium held in the Salle Mdicis of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris in December 2000, and hosted by the president of the French Senate. The results highlight the importance of historical documentation of this period of tragedy and heroism. Those present acknowledged the special nature of the friendship between France and the United States, more than half a century after that unique time of cooperation between French and Americans during the Resistance. That this friendship has been preserved for more than 225 years, since Benjamin Franklin first visited Paris in the eighteenth century, is extraordinary testimony to its resilience, as well as to the enduring commitment to liberty shared by both countries.The event was charged with the emotion of history. That emotion was given greater meaning by the presence of younger attendees, many of whom had never heard their elders speak publicly about the Unrecognized Resistance. All were very much aware that this was an uncommon occasion and, because of the continuing march of time, would very possibly be the last one like it. The importance and emotionalism of this event has been captured by one of the foremost scholars in contemporary European history, François-Georges Dreyfus. Unrecognized Resistance will be mandatory reading for anyone interested in modern history, World War II, international relations, studies in reciprocity, and building lasting coalitions.

Free Download Tayannah Lee McQuillar, Fred L. Johnson, "Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1568583877 | EPUB | pages: 286 | 0.4 mb
A passionate, critically incisive cultural biography of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and an examination of the forces that shaped him.

Free Download Dr Brian Holden-Reid, Joseph G Dawson III, "The Vistas of American Military History 1800-1898"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138881996, 0415373190 | EPUB | pages: 198 | 0.4 mb
A team of leading American military historians here investigate the factors that shaped the United States Army in the nineteenth century.

Free Download Edward Wilson Morse, "The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines and in Humanitarian Service August, 1914-April, 1917"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1019773456 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.7 mb
Even before the official entry of the United States of America into the First World War in April 1917, many of its citizens had already crossed over "The Pond" and already had lent their efforts to the Allied cause. The author Edwin Morse set himself a terribly difficult task to record even a handful of these gallant soldiers, doctors, surgeons and aviators; he selected as a sampling of 34 different stories which he set out to tell in brief. Those he selected contributed to the Allied cause in different and diverse ways – some joined the Foreign Legion, some the British Army, others supported the medical services or drove ambulances; still further more joined the French Army aviators and formed the famous Lafayette Escadrille.