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by Egerton Ryerson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The Loyalists of America and Their Times Volume II Egerton Ryerson, methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario (1803-1882)
This ebook presents «The Loyalists of America and Their Times Volume II», from Egerton Ryerson. A dynamic table...
A Patriot's History® of the Modern World, Vol. I
From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
“America’s story from 1898 to 1945 is nothing less than the triumph of American exceptionalism over liberal progressivism, despite a few temporary victories by the latter.”
Conservative historian Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number one New York Times bestseller, A Patriot’s...
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Journal of a Voyage to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Auguste Levasseur’s Lafayette in America is a journal of General Lafayette’s 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of all 24 United States. In this book, Lafayette’s private secretary describes how the now 67-year-old hero of the American Revolution and apostle of liberty in Europe was welcomed in an adoring...
by Salvatore Prisco
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
We Cannot Remain Silent
Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup...
by John F. Chilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and...
by J. K. Zawodny
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
MORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces...
by Peter P. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Shortly before the United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812, Congress came within two votes of declaring war on Napoleon BonaparteÆs French empire. For six years, France and Britain had both seized American shipping. While common wisdom says that America was virtually an innocent in...
by James West Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History...
by Tom Lansford
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
The post-Cold War diplomacy of the United States evolved in stages that reflected changes in the international system. Through the 1990s, the nation's foreign affairs were marked by an evolution away from the post-World War II focus on security and superpower competition to a more multifaceted and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars.
In one portable volume, with accessible...
Terror in the Heart of Freedom
Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to...
Puerto Rico in the American Century
A History since 1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the...