Americas category: 34066 books
Dee Brown on the Civil War
Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country’s bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who...
by Benson John Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The fifty-six signers of America's Declaration of Independence risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to found a new country. In this clazzic work, Benson J. Lossing describes the lives of each of the founding fathers, their greatest achievements, and what impelled them...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.
A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts...
by Louis S. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography,...
A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.
In A is for American,...
by Tom Clancy, Tony Zinni, Tony Koltz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Marine general Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. His credentials as a soldier were impeccable, whether he was leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or - as Commander in Chief of CENTCOM - directing...
War of Two
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive.
In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols...
by John Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
Founding Martyr
The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution
Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American...
A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
His opposition to slavery outweighed his religion’s views of war: “One of the most unique and extensive views of a Delaware war veteran’s experience” (Main Line Times).
When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware’s 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker...
On the Border with Crook
General George Crook, the American Indian Wars, and Life on the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This definitive chronicle of Gen. George Crook by his loyal aide de camp offers a firsthand account of the Arizona Territory and American Indian Wars.
After serving more than fifteen years with Gen. George Crook, John G. Bourke, his right-hand man, sat down to write of his time with the legendary...
Benedict Arnold's Army
The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web).
In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of...
by John M. Osborne, Christine Bombaro
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This gripping biography from historians John Osborne and Christine Bombaro captures the story of an unlikely political hero who helped destroy American slavery. John A.J. Creswell was a son of the slaveholding South, a native of Maryland who attended Dickinson College in Pennsylvania in the 1840s....
by Jeff Wilser
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The life and lessons of the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, longbefore becoming the subject of Broadway’s Hamilton: An American Musical
Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world’s spotlight—and we need him now...