United States category: 34172 books
Sanctified Landscape
Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...
Whither America
Duty - Honor - Country or Treadmill to Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
‘Whither America’ is the autobiography of C. Ben Basye, supplemented by a significant amount of relevant history. The nine-decade long life story started on a Missouri farm in the midst of the Great Depression. He was a 15 year old high school graduate in 1943, while World War II was raging. He...
JFK Assassination
50 Years On in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
JFK Assassination 50 Years on in 60 Minutes
Contents Introduction The JFK Assassination: The Timeline The Life and Presidency of John F. Kennedy : The Childhood of a Legend, The Rise to Power, The Presidency The Accepted Version of Events : Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald (A case for the...
by Major Thom Duffy Frohnhoefer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
General Creighton Abrams assumed command of United States forces in the Republic of South Vietnam in the summer of 1968. In recent years, this change in leadership has been viewed as a radical departure from the operational approach implemented by his predecessor General William Westmoreland. This...
The Twilight War
The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war
For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This authoritative timeline of the American Revolution includes the text of numerous original documents of the era, providing extraordinary insight into the thoughts and plans of key players in the drama, including General George Washington.
Sample of Contents (incomplete): Washington to Robert...
The Federalist
The Gideon Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by...
Thomas Jefferson
American Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Originally published in 1898, Thomas Jefferson is a classic biography of the man who so deeply ingrained the republican ideals of the Founding Fathers into American society.
As such, it is the kind of work that avoids the trap of noticing everything that went unnoticed in the past while failing to...
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery
As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A complete record of the lectures on slavery in the United States of America delivered to the classes in Moral Science at the Randolph Macon College during the mid-nineteenth century, when abolitionism was at it’s height and before the American Civil War had begun. The premise of the lectures is that slavery is right, and is a fundamental principle of the social state.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This unique historical compilation provides comprehensive information on the role of naval power in the American Revolution, including the birth of the U.S. Navy, naval documents, a comprehensive history and timeline of Captain John Paul Jones, and a full list of the vessels of the Continental Navy,...
By the Hand of Providence
How Faith Shaped the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, from the Declaration of Independence to the signing of Britain’s peace treaty.
From the author of Forged in Faith comes the remarkable untold history of how the faith of our fathers critically influenced the outcome of the...
The Framers' Coup
The Making of the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local...
The American Commonwealth
Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined “the institutions and the people of America as they are.” Bryce presented his findings in The...
Unshackling America
How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle....