North America category: 699 books
Atomic Enders of the World
Part III.
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
The third short series takes a look at North Korea and the other countries who Carter defines as the Atomic Enders of the World.
by Eyre Damer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This work is undertaken with the wish to gratify a popular desire for addition to the scant literature relating to the Reconstruction Era and that most remarkable organization of modern times--begotten of conditions unparalleled in history, conditions which can never recur, and vanishing with the...
by Bill Moyers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers a passionate defense of its principles of fairness...
by Bonnye Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress
Zamimolo’s Story,50,000 BC is book 3 in the popular Winds of Change series.
Follow Zamimolo on his quest to rescue Olomaru-mia, the woman...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create...
by Richard Shenkman
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The truth and nothing but the truth—Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends.
The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.
The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.
In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies...
The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American...
The American Resting Place
400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
A sweeping history of America as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with eighty black-and-white photographs
Cemeteries and burial grounds, as illuminated by an acclaimed cultural historian, are unique windows onto our religious, ethnic, and...
Making Haste from Babylon
The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board...
Detroit 67
The Year That Changed Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up...
Founding Feuds
The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence.
From the violent brawl between...
by Henry William Elson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The Civil War Through the Camera by Henry William Elson (1857-1935). Hundreds of Vivid Photographs actually Taken in Civil War Times. Includes Sixteen Reproductions in Color of Famous War Paintings.
A Complete Illustrated History of the Civil War. first published in 16 booklets, complete from...
The Betrayal
The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored,...
American Chinatown
A People's History of Five Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine. Every day, Americans find "something different" in Chinatown's narrow lanes and overflowing markets, tasting exotic delicacies from a world apart or bartering for a trinket...