United States category: 34172 books
Constituting Americans
Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1994
Ever since the founders drafted "We the People," "we" have been at pains to work out the contradictions in their formulation, to fix in words precisely what it means to be American. Constituting Americans rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth...
by Nathan Allen, Amos Noyes Currier
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
In the history of a nation or a people there are sometimes important changes taking place, so gradually and quietly that they are scarcely perceptible at the time. It may require a series of years or several generations to work out the problems involved, but they may be followed with results of great...
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her notorious behavior, dashing husband, and associations...
by James S. Olson, Heather Olson Beal
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
The Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States. Considering ethnicity in terms of race, language, religion and national origin, this important text examines its effects on social relations, public policy...
Written in Stone
Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over...
The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King – Conspiracy Theory & The Official Investigation
Alternative Version of the Memphis Assassination - Official Government Report on Different Allegations: Selected Documents, Eyewitness Testimonies & Material Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, on April 4, 1968. In December 1993, decades after the murder, Loyd Jowers, a white man from Memphis, asserted that the Mafia and the U.S. government were involved in a conspiracy against Martin Luther King. Jowers claimed...
Sinking of the Zam Zam
Diary of James W. Stewart with the British American Ambulance Corps
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Thursday, April 17th, 1941 at 5:55 in the morning a peculiar and outlandish new noise was heard by those on board A vicious howling hissing sound I shall never forget and yet seem never quite able to remember With a horrible rending explosive crunch the first shells came aboard. James Stewart.
March...
American Cyclone
Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, bespectacled youth. Naturalist...
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
Faithful Republic
Religion and Politics in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Despite constitutional limitations, the points of contact between religion and politics have deeply affected all aspects of American political development since the founding of the United States. Within partisan politics, federal institutions, and movement activism, religion and politics have rarely...
Incarcerated Women
A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories...
America's Public Lands
From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
How is it that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing question, Randall K. Wilson traces the often-forgotten ideas of nature...
by John D'Onofrio, Todd Warger
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Mount Baker rises over northern Washington State like a mirage, dominating the landscape like few mountains in the United States. On a clear day, it is visible from as far away as Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tacoma, Washington. This immense volcano is a study in superlatives: it is the third-highest...
by Peter C. Holloran, Catherine Cocks, Alan Lessoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first...