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The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.
During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and...
The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on...
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's...
California Dry
Diary During the Great Drought
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In this digital publication, James Laxer writes a diary of the time he spent in California in the winter of 2014 during the great drought. In Los Angeles and the vicinity of Palm Springs, Laxer looks at the golden state at a time when its way of life is facing an existential threat as a consequence...
by Claude M. Fuess
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains a detailed biography of Calvin Coolidge. John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) served as the President of the United States between 1923 and 1929. Originally a Republican lawyer from Vermont, he worked his way up the political ladder before becoming the governor of Massachusetts....
Father of Route 66
The Story of Cy Avery
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build.
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins...
War Party in Blue
Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American...
Frontier Regulars
The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War.
Here are incisive accounts...
Engines of Diplomacy
Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between...
Reshaping the Tornado Belt
The June 16, 1887, Grand Forks/East Grand Forks Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
When a devastating tornado hit Grand Forks and East Grand Forks on June 16, 1887, nobody saw it coming.
Even the United States Signal Service believed there was a northern limit for tornadoes in the United States. The frontier towns of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks were located about seventyfive...
The Money Makers
How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.
With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing...
The Crisis of the Old Order
1919-1933, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, is the first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
How many American Presidents can you name? Perhaps quite a few. But more than the names, it is important that you also learn of their achievements and even their controversies, too. This educational material will go through each American President and present their information in a way that would interest a child and make them want to learn more. Secure a copy today!
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
The Story of the Negro is a history of Americans of African descent before and after slavery. Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second part carries...