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Burnt-Out Fires
California’s Modoc Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.
Everyone pointed to...
by Stan Hoig
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo.After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers,...
by Chris Heffelfinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The radicalization of Muslims and Islamic institutions in the United States, Europe, and across the Islamic world has fostered a new generation of Islamist activists, many of them willing to use violence to achieve their aims. In Radical Islam in America, Chris Heffelfinger describes the development...
by Den Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early forms of commerce, and other enthralling accounts are part of this small New Mexico town’s...
The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times).
It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and...
Bonds of Union
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial...
by Linda Rae Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Winning the Culture War is an exposé on America’s gradual but steady secular and socialist drift. It serves as a treatise that unashamedly reinforces our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage while sounding the alarm at where we as Americans are heading unless Christians and concerned citizens take...
The Siege of Washington
The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation's capital was surrounded by the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. With no fortifications...
When the Yankees Came
Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential...
by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents
From Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, an acclaimed look at the spiritual beliefs of such iconic Americans as Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, established David L. Holmes as a measured voice in the heated debate over the new nation’s religious underpinnings. With the same judicious approach, Holmes...
by Robert Ross McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2006
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.
by Edward Austin Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
Light Ahead for the Negro written by Edward Austin Johnson who was an attorney. This book was published in 1904. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work,...
Mannahatta
A Natural History of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding...