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by Richard D. Heffner, Alexander B. Heffner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, now updated with new content such as Trump's inaugural address.
Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian Richard D. Heffner and journalist Alexander Heffner,...
by Joseph Sturge
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
Preface to the American Edition
Preface to the English Edition
A Visit, &c.
General Observations
Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Appendix B: EARLY EFFORTS OF "FRIENDS" IN BEHALF...
The 10 Big Lies About America
Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”
In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten...
1812
The War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In June 1812 the still-infant United States had the audacity to declare war on the British Empire. Fought between creaking sailing ships and armies often led by bumbling generals, the ensuing conflict featured a tit-for-tat "You burned our capital, so we'll burn yours" and a legendary battle...
Theodore Roosevelt
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The firsthand account of the life of adventurer, scholar, war hero, and twenty-sixth president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.
There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living.
Here, in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt recounts his remarkable journey...
Great Crossings
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they went. Great Crossings also...
Useful Enemies
America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How the United States protected John Demjanjuk: “A richly researched, gripping narrative about war, suffering, survival, corruption, injustice and morality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred).
John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why...
Secret Service Dogs
The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever look at a...
by Jack F., Jr. Matlock
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Former U.S. ambassador to the USSR Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist...
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
by William L. Richter
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. There was a very real possibility that the union could have been sundered, resulting in a very different American history, and probably, world history. But the union was held together by tough...
by The Editors of REA
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Interactive Flashcard books represent a novel approach which combines the merits of flash cards with the ease of using a book. One side of each page includes questions to be answered, with space for writing in one’s answers — a feature not usually found on flash cards. The flip side of the...
The Slaveholding Republic
An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln....
Hollywood’s Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film...