United States category: 34172 books
Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter,...
Presidents at War
From Truman to Bush, The Gathering of Military Powers To Our Commanders in Chief
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Panama, the Gulf War, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq
What do these events and scores of others have in common? Each of these wars, incursions, invasions,...
by A. Ward Burian
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The fascinating story of how and why all fifty American states were formed—and how they became a part of history’s greatest social experiment.
Every US state has a unique history that deserves a separate book. The Creation of the American States provides readers with essential information...
What Would Jefferson Do?
A Return to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81 nations can be described as fully democratic. Yet...
Letters from the Heart
1943-1946
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Letters from the Heart is a story of Dana A. Webb, Jr., Cobby,, a P-51 pilot, assigned to the 328th Fighter Squadron and the 352nd Fighter Group stationed in England and Belgium during World War II. It is a work of nonfiction based primarily on letters written by Cobby Webb to his parents and his...
The Challenge to Change
Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful....
Lost States
True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to...
Rogue Nation
American Unilateralism And The Failure Of Good Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
America's democratic ideals have long been the hope of the world, but our allies increasingly see us as abandoning those ideals. It's not hard to understand why. In the months before 9/11, the United States walked away from a number of international treaties including the Kyoto Accord. After the attack,...
Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian Northwest
A Study in Canadian-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
From the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, only a line separates Canada from the United States—the mute evidence of each nation's manifest destiny. As a boundary, the 49th parallel is entirely manmade and will never really divide the Northern Great Plains, for it is a region at once geographically...
by Barry A. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United Statess image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally...
by Timothy Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The atomic age began at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of “the Gadget” at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced the capitulation of Japan and ended World War II, the Trinity test was the culmination of herculean efforts...
by S.D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
In this volume, Professor Clark shows that for two hundred years Canadian society was subject to the same kind of disturbing and disruptive forces that revealed themselves in the United States in the Revolutionary period. In Canada, as in the United States, there was a frontier element which, economically,...
The General’s Wife
The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
An excellent and diligently researched biography of Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902), the wife of the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
"Behind every successful man there stands a woman."
This maxim was...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This story of Operation Restore Hope relates how many issues unique to operations other than war were addressed and resolved by the commanding general of the Unified Task Force Somalia (UNITAF) and his staff. Because it is written specifically from the perspective of the command element and drawn...