United States category: 34172 books
America's First Great Depression
Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed...
by John F. Stover
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth...
The Quiet Don
The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meeting of crime chieftains in 1957? Even in the production of The Godfather movie?
Secretive—even...
Blood and Daring
How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.
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In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because...
Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit
American Art and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America's battle against communism. Part of that effort in cultural diplomacy included a program to arrange the exhibition of hundreds of American paintings overseas. Michael L. Krenn studies the successes, failures, contradictions, and controversies...
by Laura Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States. It is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with a vibrant mixture of 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...
The President's Desk
An alt-history of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The President’s Desk is the story of America as seen through the eyes of its most powerful piece of furniture. Standing in the most important office in the land for over a hundred years, it has been sat at by no less than twenty-four of the greatest men who ever lived (I’m leaving out Nixon, obviously)....
From Colony to Superpower:U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned...
When the United States Invaded Russia
Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central...
Spies
The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
“This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).
Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete...
The Venona Secrets
Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
***The Venona Secrets***presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.
In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more...
Edmund G. Ross
Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Thanks to John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, most twenty-first-century Americans who remember Edmund G. Ross (1826–1907) know only that he cast an important vote as a U.S. senator from Kansas that prevented the conviction of President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” allowing...
by Timothy A. Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Tucked away in the nations heartland, a boy was born the very summer the United States would enter the First World War. His name was Joe Sexton, and his life would bear witness to the dramatic and monumental changes and events that marked the twentieth centurythe First World War, the Great Depression,...
TIME Andrew Jackson
An American Populist
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Andrew Jackson remains one of America's most extraordinary, influential and at times controversial leaders, defined by a brilliant military and political career that sought to advance the needs of the common man over those of the entrenched elite-in essence, giving rise to the idea of populism.
This...