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Decision at Sea
Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American nation....
by Michael E. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped...
The True Flag
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.
How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination...
by Edwin Erle Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The story of the United States has frequently been told. It has been told in the spirit of boasting, as a marvel of local accomplishment. It has been told in the spirit of reverence, as the work of a chosen people under a special dispensation of Providence. Its glory has been ascribed now to one political...
Choosing Sides
Loyalists in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s...
For Their Own Cause
The 27th United States Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism...
by Charles Kendall Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A History of the United States by Adams and Trent is a thorough history of the Nation until 1902.
A Few Bloody Noses
The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
The ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. Robert Harvey, whose most recent book Liberators was brilliantly reviewed on both sides of the ocean, challenges conventional views of the American Revolution in almost every aspect-why it...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
Last Run of the Whisperer
A Story of a Soldier of the Connecticut Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
"Last Run of the Whisperer" is a historical fiction novel based upon the Revolutionary War records of William Waterman of Norwich, Connecticut colony. The author has taken the information that William Waterman has provided to us through his own account of his service in the American Revolution,...
The United States in World War II
1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events...