United States category: 34172 books
by Ronald T. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Two hundred years later, the War of 1812 has been mostly forgotten. When the United States declared war on England, both sides were unprepared for battle. American troops outnumbered British forces by two-to-one; however, they were led by inexperienced politicians and aging Revolutionary War heroes....
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
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 is ready to explore when you are.
Each...
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
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 is ready to explore when you are.
Each...
Raising Freedom's Child
Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation...
Stages of Engagement
U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898-1949
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation’s history.
Joshua E. Polster applies key thematic...
Consumers' Imperium
The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the...
by Richard L. Nostrand
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview for general readers and scholars...
Texas by Terán
The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Texas was already slipping from the grasp of Mexico when Manuel Mier y Terán made his tour of inspection in 1828. American settlers were pouring across the vaguely defined border between Mexico's northernmost province and the United States, along with a host of Indian nations driven off their lands...
Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were,...
The Lives of Chang and Eng
Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese...
The Evolutionists
American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Charles Darwin published his monumental treatise The Origin of Species in 1859. It has proved to be a major contribution to scientific theory but highly contentious as well. In the United States, more than in any other country, Darwin's theory of evolution became, and remains, a matter of "political"...
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2011
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. This walking tour of Sumter, South Carolina is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural landmarks, cultural sites...
Ocean Ablaze
War Reaches the Outer Banks
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Two yellowing envelopes in a long-untouched file, unmistakably of U.S. Army origin but addressed to a North Carolina housewife, caught the attention of her son as he sorted her papers after her death. The postmarks, Virginia Beach, VA., and dated in 1942, were puzzling, as was the official return...
Adaptation Of The Vessels Of The Western Gunboat Flotilla To The Circumstances Of Riverine Warfare
During The American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study investigates the adaptation and purpose-built construction of the vessels used by the Federal government to conduct riverine warfare on the waters of the American Mississippi River drainage basin. The study concentrates on the technology, geography, hydrography, and convention which shaped...