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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Established during World War II to advise the President regarding the strategic direction of armed forces of the United States, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) continued in existence after the war and, as military advisers and planners, have played a significant role in the development of national...
by Roland Maes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Book V details the expansion of the Christian nations, their interaction with other religions and secular entities and ends with the potential role of the United States.
Napoleon applied to Europe the fascist views developed by the agnostic French Free-Masons, and left Europe in a state of...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
In 1791, The First Bank of the United States was a financial innovation proposed and supported by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Establishment of the bank was part of a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power, along with a federal mint and excise taxes....
by Franklin Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) is best known for being one of the Presidents of the United States, albeit one of the least known. And its just as well, since Pierce is widely considered by historians to be one of the worst in history. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface," a Northern politician who sympathized...
Capital of the World
The Race to Host the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World....
Aggressive Nationalism
McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) has long been recognized to be one of the most significant decisions ever handed down by the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, many scholars have argued it is the greatest opinion handed down by the greatest Chief Justice, in which he declared the act creating the Second...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.
• Comprises detailed narratives encompassing...
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.
Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in...
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar...
The Harding Affair
Love and Espionage during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair,...
Abraham Lincoln and Mexico
A History of Courage, Intrigue and Unlikely Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This book by a noted Ph.D. historian is one of the best books available about historical relations between the United States and Mexico. It shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in 1846, opposition by Abraham Lincoln and other politicians to the unjustified and unconstitutional decision...
Washington and Hamilton
The Alliance That Forged America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Untold Story of the Extraordinary Alliance That Forged Our Nation and the Unlikely Duo Behind It: George Washington & Alexander Hamilton
In the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes...
Gangsterismo
The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before...