Americas category: 34066 books
Rush
Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration...
Miss Anne in Harlem
The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders.
The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion—with...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Civil War Classics)
A Memoir of a Former Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.Among the first of slave narratives to be published, Harriet A....
Partners in Command
George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
A unique look at the complex relationship between two of America?s foremost World War II leaders
The first book ever to explore the relationship between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, Partners in Command eloquently tackles a subject that has eluded historians for years. As Mark Perry...
Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto...
Beyond Band of Brothers
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers Weekly
They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized...
Custer's Trials
A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints...
The Road to El Dorado
Percy Fawcett and the Lost World of Z
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In 1925, Percy Fawcett left England for Brazil--he would never return.
For his entire life, Fawcett had been fascinated with exploration. The child of an explorer, Fawcett had heard countless wild stories of adventure and it did not surprise anyone that he became an explorer himself.
In...
by Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
“A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average...
by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
A selection of Benjamin Franklin’s writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.
Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin’s writings shows why he was the bestselling author...
The Other Custers
Tom, Boston, Nevin, and Maggie in the Shadow of George Armstrong Custer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighorn—and so did their only sister's husband.
Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died with the 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Bighorn in 1876. So too did their...
On Gold Mountain
The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The story that inspired the major motion picture produced by Brad Pitt, directed by Steve McQueen, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account...
Killing Patton
The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling...