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Washington on Courage
George Washington's Formula for Courageous Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
George Washington was the senior officer of the colonial forces during the first stages of the French and Indian War, the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, the man who presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution,...
The First Prejudice
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration...
Crown of Thorns
Political Martyrdom in America From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990
"A provocative treatment of political martyrdom in the United States . . . . a well-crafted, thought-provoking book."
-The Lincoln Herald
"In the U.S., dead politicians and controversial reformers have frequently been called martyrs to a cause. But achieving martyrdom is more elusive...
Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry
Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
George Washington’s 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, a foundational document in the history of religious freedom in the United States, embodies a vision of religious harmony that remains deeply pertinent in our increasingly diverse society. In Washington’s Rebuke...
by Robert Clayton Buick
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The front cover of this book depicts the true and fatal wounds to President John F. Kennedy that was never revealed by the Warren Commission or by the official autopsy report. Instead, the United States Government and high ranking government officials responsible for the assassination of President...
Twelve Inventions Which Changed America
The Influence of Technology on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people...
by James Forrestal, Walter Millis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. These fascinating diaries begin in 1944 shortly after James Forrestal became Secretary of the Navy, and end with his resignation in March 1949 as America’s...
Rebellion in the Temple of Justice
The Federal and State Courts in South Carolina During the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Ghost Courts of the War Between the States
In 1860, news of Abraham Lincoln's election arrived in Charleston like a fire alarm. In the United States courtroom on Chalmers Street, the grand jury simply refused to go on. All eyes are on the judge. In a dramatic moment, Judge A.G. Magrath, tears...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Mark Lardas explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium frigates, built for the Continental Navy during the years 1776–1783. This was the first navy of the United States and much of the fleet was comprised of ships that had been modified from existing vessels, converted...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
By 1805 the 44-gun frigate was probably viewed as a failed experiment whilst the 38-gun frigate was viewed as the vessel of the future. Ten years later every navy was building 44-gun frigates and today it is viewed as the symbol of the Napoleonic-era cruiser. This remarkable transformation resulted...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “immensely readable” history of the United States from FDR’s election to the final days of the Cold War (Publishers Weekly).
The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world’s sole...
Presidential Parallels
What They Our Presidents Had in Common, and Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Almost everyone is aware of the strange coincidences and parallels between Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy but did you know that practically every American president has some little known connection with another past or future president? In Presidential Parallels, What Our Presidents Had in Common,...
A Threat of the First Magnitude
FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States.
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In the Name of Democracy
American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?
Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information...