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THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Memoirs of the 26th President of the United States
Boyhood and Youth, Education, Political Ideals, Political Career (the New York Governorship and the Presidency), Military Career, the Monroe Doctrine and Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book is an autobiography written by Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most impressive figures of the entire American History. Statesman, historian, writer, explorer, soldier and naturalist, Roosevelt leads us through his life discovering at the same time his political ideals and his love of the...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States (1858-1919)
This ebook presents «African and European Addresses», from Theodore Roosevelt. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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by Jill Lepore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
America's Great Debate
Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously...
Autobiography of Red Cloud
War Leader of the Oglalas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Red Cloud—the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. In the 1860s he destroyed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command, closed the Bozeman Trail, and forced the United States to a peace conference. A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills...
by Sammye J. Meadows, Jana Prewitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals and maps, and also discusses...
Swastika Nation
Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the late 1930s, the German–American Bund, led by its popinjay dictator Fritz Kuhn, was a small but powerful national movement in pre-World War II America, determined to conquer the United States government with a fascist dictatorship. They met in private social halls and beer garden backrooms,...
The Last Gasp
The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada...
Becoming the Tupamaros
Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In Becoming the Tupamaros, Lindsey Churchill explores an alternative narrative of US-Latin American relations by challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of revolutionary movements like the Uruguayan Tupamaros group. A violent and innovative organization, the Tupamaros demonstrated that...
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion...
Black Thursday
The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Martin Caidin’s Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid tells of the United States Air Force’s massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses - escorted by squadrons...
by Anon.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN / NVA) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZs)...
Lincoln's Wrath
Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete...
Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexual knowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education...