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by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in the states that comprised the Confederate States of America. The narratives were collected in 1936-1938 at the time of the Great Depression in the United...
Flags of the Fifty States
Their Colorful Histories and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Flags of the Fifty States is an indispensable historical reference and a fascinating, beautiful pictorial guide to the rich diversity of America's fifty states. It provides a colorful way to learn about how the United States grew and prospered and shaped itself and its banners over the years.
With...
Dem Days Was Hell - Recorded Testimonies of Former Slaves from 17 U.S. States
True Life Stories from Hundreds of African Americans in South about Their Life in Slavery and after the Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives....
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...
Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...
The Admirals
Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.
Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These...
The Statesman and the Storyteller
John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In a dual biography covering the last ten years of the lives of friends and contemporaries, writer Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and statesman John Hay (who served as secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt), The Statesman and the Storyteller not only provides...
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
In 1826, Thomas Jefferson was laid to rest at Monticello beside his wife and daughters. His epitaph, which he composed, reads, "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University...
Geronimo
His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
“I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.”—Geronimo
This book contains one of the most extraordinary and invaluable...
Dear Abigail
The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.
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“Never sisters loved each other better than we.”—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
Much has been written...
Hell's Angels
The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The true story of World War 2’s legendary Hell’s Angels—the 8th Air Force’s 303rd Bomb Group.
Although the United States declared war against Germany in December 1941, a successful assault on Nazi-occupied Europe could not happen until Germany’s industrial and military might were...
The Train to Crystal City
FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compelling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis).
During...
Lightning Strike
The Secret Mission to Kill Admiral Yamamoto and Avenge Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This is the story of the fighter mission that changed World War II. It is the true story of the man behind Pearl Harbor---Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto---and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down.
Yamamoto was a cigar-smoking, poker-playing,...