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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Leonard Wood rose from obscure civilian contract doctor in the American southwest of 1885 to Chief of Staff of the United States Army as the Army itself changed from frontier constabulary...
by Michael A. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
This compendium of over 500 entries on the most important and relevant personalities, programs, activities, and agencies of U.S. intelligence, beginning with the Sons of Liberty before the onset of the Revolutionary War until the most recent reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, covers...
by Joyce P. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Now in a fully updated edition that goes through the Obama administration and the election of Donald Trump,this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding to the present. Joyce P. Kaufman provides students with a clear...
Fort Concho
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. For centuries, this high open plateau had remained barren except for passing expeditions or Native American hunting parties. The establishment of Fort Concho provided...
Alexander Hamilton
The Graphic History of an American Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential figures in United States history—he fought in the Revolutionary War, helped develop the Constitution, and as the first Secretary of the Treasury...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
A People's History of American Empire
The American Empire Project, A Graphic Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form
Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom...
Left of the Left
My Memories of Sam Dolgoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Sam Dolgoff, a house painter by trade, was at the center of American anarchism for seventy years. His political voyage began in the 1920s when he joined the Industrial Workers of the World. He rode the rails as an itinerant laborer, bedding down in hobo camps and mounting soapboxes in cities across...
Liberty and Liberticide
The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained,...
In Battle for Peace (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
The Story of My 83rd Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour from walkthetown.com is ready to explore...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the United States most well known authors, and one whose work is still read by every student in the country. Emerson was a lecturer, essayist and poet who became the champion of individualism and ended up becoming the Father of the Transcendentalist movement by the mid-1830s....
My First Summer in the Sierra
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21st, 1838. His Father wanted his children to have a stricter Religious upbringing and therefore moved the family to the United States. John Muir is perhaps known today as the most pre-eminent naturalist and advocate for the preservation of much of the western...
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21st, 1838. His Father wanted his children to have a stricter Religious upbringing and therefore moved the family to the United States. John Muir is perhaps known today as the most pre-eminent naturalist and advocate for the preservation of much of the western...