North America category: 699 books
by John Simcoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers is a journal from 1777 to the end of the Revolutionary War, written by the British loyalist John Simcoe.
Savannah 1779
The British turn south
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In 1778 Great Britain launched a second invasion of the southern colonies as part of the “southern strategy” for victory in the American Revolutionary War. A force of 3,000 British soldiers, Hessians and Loyalists was dispatched from New York City to capture Savannah, capital of the State of Georgia....
by Theophilus Gould Steward
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
4 works of Theophilus Gould Steward American author, educator, clergyman (1843-1924)
This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Theophilus Gould Steward. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - How the Black St. Domingo...
Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, they have motivated many adult-driven schemes to effect a positive future. But have all children...
Science in Canada
Selections from the Speeches of E.W.R. Steacie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The relationship between science and government, currently the subject of much lively debate, was one to which E.W.R. Steacie devoted a great deal of his energy and outstanding talents. As President of the National Research Council, a key position which he held for ten years, Dr. Steacie played an...
Last Run
The Gauntlet Runner Book VII
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Jacob Murray finally has what he wanted…almost. He is still tired from a war that has dragged on close to seven years. He desperately wants to get home but he has his obligations. He finally has Maggie by his side, only as fate has it, heartbreak is always around the corner.The French are desperate...
by Camilla Kattell
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Young people, little known and well known, like Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wootton, Josiah Gregg, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Francis Parkman Jr., and others come to life in this anthology of their adventures on the Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Trail was the road to the southwestern part of the continent becoming...
The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes...
by Henry Adams, Elizabeth Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
Henry Adams, in full Henry Brooks Adams, (born February 16, 1838, Boston—died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C.), historian, man of letters, and author of one of the outstanding autobiographies of Western literature, The Education of Henry Adams.
Adams...
Particulars of a Revolution
An Existential approach to American History
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The Particulars of the American Revolution are an invitation for the reader to create an existential personal myth against the outline and content of the American Revolution.
Patrick’s Unfinished
Particulars of an Existential Personal Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Patrick’s Unfinished is an Existential Approach to American history with an invitation to timeline your life story against the American Revolution and create a personal myth against American history in the American Revolution period
Strategy Six Pack 12
Six History Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“Hidden talent counts for nothing.”
- Nero.
Strategy Six Pack 12 presents six historical texts spanning two millennia and three continents. Ancient Rome and the Americas get two books each: Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Rome is paired with Jacob Abbott’s biography of...
The Dalton Brothers
And Their Astounding Career of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Two classic accounts of some of the Old West’s most infamous outlaws—the Dalton Gang and “Black Jack” Ketchum—in one volume.
Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly business—twenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation...
Martial Metaphors
Soldiers' Perspectives on the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The book draws on letters, diaries, recent books and articles in History, but also relies on multi-disciplinary sources in politics and literature, along transnational comparisons to place the events in a broader perspective. The book invites the reader to embark with the soldiers and some civilians...