Americas category: 34066 books
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
For a man who grew up to become the Bull Moose, Teddy Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his physical weakness actually drove him to be more active, which also fostered an interest in nature. It also helped that Teddys family was wealthy, allowing him privileges...
by Chip Langston
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Jamestown Odyssey is a ground breaking, and provocative, book on race and family in America. To varying degrees, most Americans have some interest in who their ancestors are. Some are content to know something only about their grandparents. For others, like the author, it becomes an avocation. Most...
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, author, and Founding Father - Benjamin Franklin was one of the most exceptional people the world has ever known. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Davidson Butler, is his story.
Profundo como el silencio
El Titanic y la Revolución Mexicana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2016
En abril de 1912, en el Atlántico Norte, el trasatlántico más grande de la historia, el Titanic, se encuentra con su destino al chocar con un iceberg. El vapor alemán Frankfurt, es una de las embarcaciones que ha recibido la señal de auxilio y cambia de rumbo para...
Orphans Preferred
The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.”
—California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860
The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the...
Typhoid Mary
Captive to the Public's Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the...
Brinkley's Beat
People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.
Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider...
Hearts Touched by Fire
The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired...
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first...
Lady at the O.K. Corral
The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.
For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman...
The Forgotten Founding Father
Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation.
Webster hobnobbed...
The Train to Crystal City
FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis).
During...
by Manfred Weidhorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Robert E. Lee's life has been regarded as one of great honor and esteem and he has been a man admired for his loyalty, patriotism, and conduct as not only an American, but also a Virginian. And when he made the decision to turn down Lincoln's offer to command a large army of Union Soldiers in the...
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be...