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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities,...
Unintended Consequences
The United States at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
“The United States does not do nation building,” claimed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld three years ago. Yet what are we to make of the American military bases in Korea? Why do American warships patrol the Somali coastline? And perhaps most significantly, why are fourteen “enduring bases”...
The United States and the Nazi Holocaust
Race, Refuge, and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 to the modern day. The book weaves together a vast body of scholarship to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced overview of this...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Coastal fortifications in the United States developed from the colonial practice of building temporary structures to a system designed to be permanent and enduring. Coastal fortifications...
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Hidden Out in the Open is the first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This panoramic study covers a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the United States, and by similarly momentous...
The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956
Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Egypt figured prominently in United States policy in the Middle East after World War II because of its strategic, political, and economic importance. Peter Hahn explores the triangular relationship between the United States, Great Britain, and Egypt in order to analyze the justifications and implications...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.
The book is much less a Davis memoir than...
by Constitutional Convention, Second Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Anthology of the most important documents of the United States of America especially formatted for digital readers with linked articles and amendments and also with The Constitutional Dictionary.* The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; ...
The American Challenge
Preserving the Greatness of America in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Winner of the 2012 eLitAwards Gold Medal for Best History Book
Winner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal for Best Adult Non-Fiction Ebook
Winner of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Ebook
Finalist for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book...
The United States of the United Races
A Utopian History of Racial Mixing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which...
by John M. Batten
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
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...Newbern on the Neuse river, Washington on the Tar river, and Plymouth on the Roanoke river, lie in a circle which might be described from a point somewhere in Pamlico Sound—the former and latter towns being each about thirty miles from Washington, the latter town being in the middle;...
The Formation & Evolution of the American Constitution
Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Constitutional Amendment Process & Actions by the U.S. Congress, Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Formation & Evolution of the American Constitution" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. James Madison introduced 12 amendments to the First Congress in 1789. Ten of these would go on to become what...
by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The United States Presidents and Government’s goal is to fill your mind with simple historical knowledge and to help anyone interested in American History and learning about our government. Each of our Presidents has left his or her imprint on the history of the United States, on the lives of the...
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each...