United States category: 34172 books
Alexander Hamilton
America's Forgotten Founder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Alexander Hamilton: Americas Forgotten Founder describes the character and achievements of a man who was instrumental in casting the form of our government and especially its strong financial structure. His financial innovations renewed the public credit when war debts threatened to swamp the fledgling...
A Regiment of Slaves
The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action in the eastern theater of operations from late 1863 to mid-1865. The regiment—drawn largely from freedmen and liberated slaves in the Middle Atlantic and New England states—served in Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s Army...
Freedom by the Sword
The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former...
In Search of Power
African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization and Black Power. In the critical period from 1956 to 1974, the emergence of newly independent states worldwide and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the United States exposed the limits of racial integration and...
by Peter O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832–1863, Peter O’Connor uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to provide a corrective to simplified interpretations of British attitudes towards the United States during the antebellum and early Civil War periods. Exploring the many complexities...
James K. Polk
A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
When he was elected President in 1845, James K. Polk was only 49 years old-at that time the youngest president ever to be elected. He faced a conflicted nation on the verge of tremendous territorial expansion. James K. Polk's four years in office marked the greatest period of territorial acquisition...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since the end of the Cold War NATO has struggled to maintain a raison d'etre for its continued existence and relevance. In the 1990s NATO expanded both its membership and the scope of...
Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of...
Revolutionaries for the Right
Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained...
Rome in America
Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an "American Catholicism," a national faith responsive to domestic concerns, disengaged from the disruptive ideological...
The Return of George Washington
Uniting the States, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead...
A Sovereign People
The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The momentous story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the crises of the 1790s and in the process bound the states into a unified nation
Today the United States is the dominant power in world affairs, and that status seems assured. Yet in the decade following...
The Handy State-by-State Answer Book
Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty States
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How did colonies, territories, and land purchases shape the United States of America? What differences-and similarities-are there between the states? What does each state bring to the union? From sea to shining sea, The Handy State-by-State Answer Book: Faces, Places, and Famous Dates for All Fifty...
Leaders at War
How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
One of the most contentious issues in contemporary foreign policy—especially in the United States—is the use of military force to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Some military interventions explicitly try to transform the domestic institutions of the states they target; others...