United States category: 34172 books
by William Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The people of Bennington often refer to the American Revolution as "our war," as it was the site of the decisive Battle of Bennington. Yet more than one thousand Bennington boys fought in the Civil War, and residents on the homefront played their parts to support the United States, too. All the machinery...
Beyond 1917
The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
A massively destructive and transformative event, the First World War left in its wake many legacies. Beyond 1917 explores both the consequences of the war for the United States (and the world) and American influence on shaping the legacies of the conflict in the decades after US entry in 1917. From...
by Herbert E. Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953) was a distinguished historian who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. He was a Harrison Fellow while at Pennsylvania. Bolton quickly became an expert on Spanish colonies in the New World. Professor...
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...
by Lt.-Col. Alexander B. Bitter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph assesses the adequacy of current United States joint campaign planning doctrine within the context of conventional operations between similar forces within a theater of war. The study focuses on five key doctrinal planning concepts— center of gravity, decisive points, operational...
A Union Forever
The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning...
by Samuel Ringgold Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Samuel Ringgold Ward was born a slave but escaped and became a famous abolitionist. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents in this edition of Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, and England.
Roman Catholicism in the United States
A Thematic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Army field manual (FM) 4-40, Quartermaster Operations, is the revision of the obsolete FM 10-1, Quartermaster Principles. FM 4-40 provides logisticians and field commanders an understanding of Quartermaster principles, organizations, and procedures within the context of decisive action. The manual...
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 32) - Pennsylvania Motorcycle Meets Compilation - On Sale!
Be A Part Of The Scene & More Being A Part Of The Scene
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Pennsylvania Motorcycle Meets I&II are on sale. Price if ordered separately - $4.98, but on sale now for $1.99. A 60% discount!
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 32) Pennsylvania Motorcycle Meets Compilation includes -
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 16) Pennsylvania Motorcycle Meets
These...
Jeannette Rankin
America's Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Suffragist, social worker, first woman elected to the United States Congress, a lifelong peace activist, and a tireless advocate for political reform, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No." Elected to Congress from Montana on the eve of the United States' entry...
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system...
Norwegians and Swedes in the United States
Friends and Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
To early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language, culture, and religion sorted them into distinct groupings: not Scandinavian, but Norwegian or Swedish—and...
The Third Asiatic Invasion
Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second “Asiatic invasions.” Perceived as alien because of their Asian ethnicity yet legally defined as American...