United States category: 34172 books
A Is for American
Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together.
In A is for American,...
The World Remade
America in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A bracing, indispensable account of America’s epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the...
Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century.
In the...
Two Americans
Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River...
Standing Next to History
An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Joseph Petro served for 23 years as a special agent in the United States Secret Service; eleven of them with presidents and vice presidents. For four of those years he stood by the side of Ronald Reagan.
Following his career as a Navy Lieutenant, during which he patrolled the rivers and canals...
by John Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Roscoe Thayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 December 14, 1799) served...
The Quiet Man
The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In this major reassessment of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, his former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency.
“I’m a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don’t.”—George...
by William E. Gienapp
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early...
Travels in North America, 1832–1834
A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States,...
Neither Snow Nor Rain
A History of the United States Postal Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**“****[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.” —**USA Today
Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the United States Postal Service was the information network that bound far-flung Americans...
Abraham Lincoln
The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound...
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
American Capitalism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader.
To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story...
A Rabble of Dead Money
The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America--with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies--certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but...