United States category: 34172 books
Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
Balancing Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored...
Washington DeCoded
A New View Over the Capitol
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
National Symbols In The Streets Of Washington, D.C. Washington DeCoded: A New View Over the Capitol is a ride through the streets of the Capital City. National symbols from the Great Seal of the United States were embedded into the 1792 design for Washington, D.C. Included among a surprising number of...
by Ronald Walters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
“In The Price of Racial Reconciliation*,* Ronald Walters offers an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities for reconciliation are viewed in the future. If...
Waves of Decolonization
Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization...
by Henry M. Flint
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Life of Stephen A. Douglas, United States Senator From Illinois. With His Most Important Speeches and Reports is a biography of the 1860 Democratic nominee for president. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.
Gamecock
The Life and Campaigns of General Thomas Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This is a 1961 biography by distinguished historian and author, Dr. Robert D. Bass, of the elusive American general Thomas Sumter—nicknamed the “Carolina Gamecock,” for his fierce fighting style—and his campaigns against the British Army in the South during the American Revolution.
Thomas...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other...
In Safe Hands
True Stories About the Men and Women of United States Customs and Border Protection
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In Safe Hands is a compilation of stories about the day-to-day activities experienced by inspectors in the United States Customs Service. Whether it be at Logan Airport in Boston, the land border in Houlton, Maine, or one hundred miles at sea on a Coast Guard cutter, these men and women are tirelessly...
Liberty and Union
A Constitutional History of the United States, volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This, the first of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation.
Written in a...
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....
by Mark R. Cheathem, Terry Corps
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The Jacksonian period under review in this dictionary served as a transition period for the United States. The growing pains of the republic’s infancy, during which time Americans learned that their nation would survive transitions of political power, gave way to the uncertainty of adolescence....
by Dr. Jeffrey Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan...
Rethinking America
From Empire to Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the...
Chop Suey
A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants across the United States--by far the most plentiful among all our ethnic eateries. Now, in Chop Suey Andrew Coe provides...