Americas category: 34066 books
Al Capone
Chicago's King of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Crime writer Nate Hendley examines the life and crimes of Al Capone, the world’s most famous gangster, during his brief reign over corrupt, Prohibition-era Chicago. A fresh, personal look at this iconic figure.
Grant and Sherman
The Friendship That Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it...
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Few writers have told the story of the American Revolution with more grace, clarity, or emotional power than New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming. Here, collected for the first time and posthumously, are Fleming's favorite works. He takes us back to the days of the founders, detailing...
Oswald's Tale
An American Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America [waiting]...
American Patriots
Answering the Call to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle for independence, these heroic men and women willingly shed their blood, sweat, and tears—often sacrificing their own lives and fortunes in order to hand down the precious legacy...
The Grimké Sisters
Sarah and Angelina Grimké, the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The Grimké Sisters
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Childhood of Sarah, 7. Practical teachings, 9. Teaching slaves, 11. Sarah a godmother, 13. Their mother,...
by Marla R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia
Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures...
Co. Aytch
A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a testament to one man’s enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction.
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by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Here, from some of America's greatest historians - Richard Ketchum, David McCullough, and Thomas Fleming, among them - are the dramatic stories of men who made the American Revolution: from Samuel Adams to Thomas Paine, Henry Knox to Friedrich von Steuben, John Paul Jones to Benedict Arnold, Lord Cornwallis to Benjamin Franklin.
Denmark Vesey
The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is a...
Trials of the Earth
The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American South
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The...
Summary of Deep Down Dark
by Héctor Tobar | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar | Includes Analysis Preview of this Instaread: Deep Down Dark is a narrative nonfiction book by journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar. The book tells the story of thirty-three miners trapped in a caved-in mine in northern Chile...
Master of War
The Life of General George H. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
In this revelatory, dynamic biography, one of our finest historians, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably...