United States category: 34172 books
Laudonniere & Fort Caroline
History and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America.
America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States...
by Sheryl Kayne
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Awarded the 2009 Silver Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: the first and only travel book devoted solely to immersion travel—volunteering, living, and learning trips within the United States!
This book will absolutely...
by L. H. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Originally published in 1911, this work is by the American horticulturist, and botanist, Liberty Hyde Bailey. He was a keen advocate of preserving American rural civilisation and as a leader in the Country Life Movement he promoted the principles of agrarianism in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
President Harry S. Truman once said that if he were remembered for anything, it would be for his foreign aid programs. Despite the fragmented appearance of the Truman administration’s various foreign aid programs, they were all inspired by a clear policy “to assist free peoples to work out their...
Unconditional Defeat
Japan, America, and the End of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this "war without mercy" could only come...
America and the Great War
A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017
"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of...
by Neil A. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment. This crisis enabled the Democrats to recapture the White House and embark upon a period of reform unsurpassed until the 1960s. Roosevelt's New Deal laid the foundations of a welfare system that was further consolidated...
Charleston
The Brief History of a Remarkable City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
"Charleston" is a highly readable primer on the South Carolina City's incredible history from its founding through the 2015 Emanuel AME Church massacre and the massacre's aftermath. It was designed specifically to give readers unfamiliar with Charleston's incredible history, especially visitors, a way...
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by Huey Pierce Long
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In this flamboyant fiction novel, Louisiana Governor Huey “Kingfish” Long, one of Franklin Roosevelt’s political rivals, details a political fantasy in which he is president of the United States. Through imaginary conversations with men of power, he presents his aspirations, including the “Share...
“Beast” Butler
The Incredible Career of Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1962, this is a biography of Benjamin Franklin Butler, (1818-1893), aka “Beast” Butler, an American lawyer, politician, soldier and businessman from Massachusetts, who became best known as a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and for his...
by Cate Lineberry
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
***Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize***
Henry Louis Gates, Jr: "A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history."
Candice Millard: “Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer.”
The astonishing true story of Robert Smalls’ amazing journey...
Mormon Battalion
United States Army of the West, 1846-1848
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public....
Old and New New Englanders
Immigration and Regional Identity in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In Old and New New Englanders, Bluford Adams provides a reenvisioning of New England’s history and regional identity by exploring the ways the arrival of waves of immigrants from Europe and Canada transformed what it meant to be a New Englander during the Gilded Age. Adams’s intervention challenges...
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915
Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the Comstock...