United States category: 34172 books
by Robert E. Brennan, Jeannie I. Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
Northern New York State has boasted a prominent military presence since the War of 1812. Beginning in 1816 with the establishment of Fort Drum's predecessor, Madison Barracks, troops have trained there throughout the summer months and the harsh winters. Today, Fort Drum is the largest military facility...
by Garrett Peck
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath—the Red Scare, race riots, women’s suffrage, and Prohibition.
The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in...
by William Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
A good many Americans were ready to seize any chance of venting their anti-British feeling; and most Americans thought they would only be fulfilling their proper 'destiny' by wresting the whole of Canada from the British crown. These two national desires worked both ways for war--supporting the government...
How to Save the Constitution
Restoring the Principles of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Our Founding Fathers’ vision for America is under attack—and you can save it.
America is a nation unique in the world, a government born under the radical idea of working for the people—not just for a powerful few. Our blueprint? The U.S. Constitution, a brilliant framework of common-sense...
Corporatocracy
A Revolution in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, a retired attorney and patriot began writing a collection of essays commenting on the problems he sees around him.
Lee S. Dimin, who served in the Army Air Force during World War II, shares how the growing power of corporations...
The Dawning of American Labor
The New Republic to the Industrial Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A concise history of labor and work in America from the birth of the Republic to the Industrial Age and beyond
From the days of Thomas Jefferson, Americans believed that they could sustain a capitalist industrial economy without the class conflict or negative socioeconomic consequences experienced...
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Revolutionary America explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815, when settlers of North America rebelled against British rule, won their independence in a long and bloody struggle, and created an enduring republic. Centering the narrative on the politics...
Many Voices, One Nation
Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North...
Frontiersmen in Blue
The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black women to work in Omaha’s meat packinghouses. In 1942, Thelma Paige used the courts to equalize the salaries of black and white schoolteachers...
The Bronx
The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Often overlooked by most tourists and locals alike, the Bronx—one of five boroughs that comprise the city of New York—is rich in cultural and historical attractions. From the Bronx Zoo (the largest urban zoo in the United States) to the New York Botanical Garden (one of the most visited botanical...
Food Will Win the War
Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over there." Baking...
We Will Be Heard
Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Most of their stories are little-known, but Freeman's compelling portrait of women working for change reminds us that women have never been silent in the political...
The People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems,...