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by Moses Grandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmate, his original owner's son, when they were both eight years old. Hired out until he was twenty-one, Grandy describes each of his temporary masters--some cruel and some kind. His first wife is sold shortly...
The Travels of Elkanah Watson
An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American...
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.
More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
by Eran Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers,...
The Foundation of the CIA
Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late...
by B J Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Take a very brief glance at the most important operations of the American naval service during the Revolution and the War of 1812-15.
by Lynn Hudson Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
He was born in 1767, a subject of the British Empire, and died in 1848, a citizen of the United States and a member of Congress in company with Abraham Lincoln. In his dramatic career he had known George Washington and Benjamiin Franklin, La Fayette of France, Alexander I of Russia, and Castlereagh...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
June 1865–December 1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
"Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs," wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, in the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found...
No God But Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...
The Deepest South
The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce...
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
United States Army in WWII - Europe - Breakout and Pursuit
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 33 maps and 97 illustrations]
The campaign in the summer of 1944 related in this volume included some of the most spectacular ground action of the U.S. Army during World War II. It began with the slow and costly hedgerow fighting against determined German efforts to contain the Normandy...
United States Army in WWII - Europe - the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 14 maps and 96 photos]
During most of the eleven months between D-day and V-E day, the U.S. Army was carrying on highly successful offensive operations. As a consequence, the American soldier was buoyed with success, imbued with the idea that his enemy could not strike him a really heavy...
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by Edward T. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 20 illustrations
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese empire attacked the U.S. military installations in Hawaii. Four days later, Germany’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, fulfilling a treaty with Japan, declared war on the United States. Having sealed with that act the developing alliance...