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The 6th United States Cavalry in the Civil War
A History and Roster
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by individual states, the regular regiments drew soldiers from across the country. By war’s end 2,130 men and at least one woman from 29 states and 14 countries...
by James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Great Debate That Made the U.S. Constitution" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The intention...
Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, January 1873 - June 1873
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising...
Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, July 1872 - December 1872
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising...
by Charles Morris
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This book contains a complete, accurate, and graphic history of our country from the first visit of the Northmen, a thousand years ago, to the opening of its new destiny, through the late struggle, resulting in the freeing of Cuba, the wresting of the Philippines, Porto Rico, and the Ladrones from...
The Longest Road
Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large.
Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes pictures of Khrushchev and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a Table of ContentsWe will bury you. Nikita KhrushchevA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River...
A Shadow on the Household
One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada....
Rites of August First
Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "August...
The Firebrand and the First Lady
Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Longlisted for the National Book Award
A groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American...
Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the...
A Time of Our Choosing
America's War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The authoritative account of America's most controversial war since Vietnam, a conflict in which "shock and awe" were not confined to the battlefield
It was a war like no other the United States had ever fought. It began with the bombing of Saddam Hussein's bunker and ended with statues...
The War of 1812
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
John R. Grodzinski’s volume in the Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies covers the origins of the War of 1812 - the major post-revolutionary conflict fought between the United States and the British Empire - providing a general overview of the significant battles that occurred...
From the Jaws of Victory
The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known...