United States category: 34172 books
Seaweeds
A Color-Coded, Illustrated Guide to Common Marine Plants of the East Coast of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Automobiles, interstate highways, shorter work weeks, longer vacations, and higher salaries have all combined to bring the seashore closer to man. Where once a visit to the shore was only a dream for many, or a once-in-a-lifetime trip for others, the varied oceanic life that has held man's interest...
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
How America Kept Its Feet
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us.
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces...
by Craig H. Roell
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Judah P. Benjamin is a controversial figure in the history of the Confederate States of America. Some historians credit him for his administrative prowess. Others scorn him as a prime reason for the failure of "The Lost Cause". He served successively as CSA attorney general, secretary of...
Under the Big Top
Big Tent Revivalism and American Culture, 1885-1925
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Under the Big Top examines the immensely popular big tent revivals of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America and develops a new framework for understanding Protestantism in this transformative period of the nation's history. Contemporary critics of the revivalists often depicted them as anxious and...
Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil”
Containing a Vindication of the American Constitutions and Defending the Blessings of Religious Liberty and Toleration, Against the Illiberal Strictures of the Rev. Samuel B. Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil” was written in 1811 in response to the Reverend Samuel B. Wylie’s work, The Two Sons of Oil, which was published in 1803. In this work of radical Presbyterian theology, Wylie pointed out what he considered to be deficiencies in the constitutions of both...
Corporate Spirit
Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield explores the long intertwining of religion and commerce in the history of incorporation in the United States. Beginning with the antecedents of that history in western Europe, she focuses on organizations to show how corporate strategies in religion...
by Brian C. Hales
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Under the subject of alternative lifestyles, the issue of polygamous relationships falls squarely in the middle of the debate. Polygamous marriages are a common practice in many other countries, but the United States has vehemently opposed such unions and will no doubt find itself disputing its position...
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that...
Executing Freedom
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put...
Wars for Empire
Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended...
Christian Imperialism
Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire...
How America Got It Right
The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
At last, a historian tells the truth about America’s role in the world—refuting the lies of anti-American propagandists.
Left-wing critics—both at home and abroad—relish blasting our country for being the world’s sole superpower, or even an “imperialist” power.
But as acclaimed...
American Catholics
A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1983
Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.