United States category: 34172 books
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In 1803, The United States made one of the greatest business deals of all time--they bought 828,000 square miles of land (1/3 the size of the United States!) for $11,250,000! To put it simply, it was a REALLY good deal.
Of Arms and Artists
The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual...
Thomas Paine
Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers
Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas...
Houston & New Orleans Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States. It is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with many ethnicities and nationalities. Houston is situated on the Gulf Coast of Texas and has the fourth largest port in the United States. Some of the world’s leading medical...
The Lonely Warrior
The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott, Founder of the Chicago Defender
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In May 1905 Robert S. Abbott started publishing the Chicago Defender. The paper attacked racial injustice, particularly lynching in the south. The Defender did not use the words “Negro” or “black” in its pages. Instead, African Americans were referred to as “the Race” and black men...
The Man Who Killed Kennedy
The Case Against LBJ
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
*"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump
The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.
Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated.
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ hit the New York Times bestseller list the week...
A Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war...
American Infidel
Robert G. Ingersoll, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The definitive biography of the man who more than any other figure in the history of the United States influenced the course of popular thought in the realm of unorthodoxy.
“…one of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.”
Rediscover Robert Green...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Here, in the magisterial yet plain-spoken style of A People's History of the United States, is historian Howard Zinn's long-awaited telling of these last six years of United States history, a time when catastrophic machinations of war have dictated our foreign and domestic policy, and when voices...
by Gene Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism...
An All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights...
Memphis and the Superflood of 1937
High Water Blues
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
The greatest flood in United States history struck the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys in January 1937. Perhaps no single flood in the United States had caused as much damage, displayed as much brutal natural force and displaced as many people. Not even the calamitous flood of 1927, which has eclipsed the...
by Hugh Brogan
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the...
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands**, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the...