Americas category: 34066 books
George Washington's Secret Spy War
The Making of America's First Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
George Washington was America’s first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.
George Washington’s Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
The best way to examine the presidency now, writes the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton, "is to examine the lives and personalities of the men who have held it, because the presidency today is in many ways the sum of large and small contributions made by the different presidents." Here,...
THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States
True Life Stories from Hundreds of African Americans in South about Their Life in Slavery and after the Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves from 17 American States". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices....
by Ethan S. Rafuse
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
“An important book that rescues George B. McClellan’s military reputation.” —Chronicles
Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he was 35. It was not to be. Ultimately deemed a failure...
by Samuel R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.
Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
*Includes pictures of each general and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes an introduction for each general*Includes a Table of Contents*Includes bibliographies for each generalDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely discussed...
Root and Branch
Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch...
A Case for Solomon
Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in American history—the kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar—and a haunting family mystery that took almost a century to solve.
THE MOST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went...
by Chief Joseph, Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Chief Joseph•The autobiographical Chief Josephs Own Story“Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all people as they treated us; that we should never be the first...
Alice
Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**Winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award **
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her...
Johnny Appleseed
The Man, the Myth, the American Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer...
The Mormon Menace
Being the Confession of John Doyle Lee — Danite an Official Assassin of the Mormon Church under the Late Brigham Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I - THE STORMY YOUTH OF LEE
CHAPTER II - LEE BEGINS A CAREER
CHAPTER III - LEE BECOMES A MORMON
CHAPTER IV - THE SAINTS BESET WITH TROUBLES
CHAPTER V - THE MORMON WAR
CHAPTER VI - LEE LOCATES THE GARDEN OF EDEN
CHAPTER VII - THE SAINTS GATHER AT NAUVOO
CHAPTER VIII -...
by Charlene E. McGee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II in Korea and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter combat missions of any pilot in the U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices...
Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the...