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Bird Woman is historian James Schultz’s biography of Sacajawea culled from the first-hand accounts of various elderly Native Americans who personally knew her. Schultz weaves together the key events in Sacajawea’s story, from her traumatic childhood and adolescence, being captured and taken away...

Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts: Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still Up From Slavery by Booker...

A classic, comprehensive survey of pre-20th Century American history, H.E. Marshall’s This Country of Ours: The Story of America is a treasure trove of information and essential reading for young historians. This new digital edition of This Country of Ours includes an image gallery.

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains is the true account of Hugh "Rising Wolf" Monroe, who came to the Blackfoot country when he was 16 and took part in buffalo hunts, accompanied war parties, saw parts of the United States no white man had...

Lone Bull's Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story, is the account of Black Otter, a Pikuni (or ‘Blackfoot’) Indian cast out from his tribe for breaking the hunting rules and forced to wander the wilderness in search of redemption.

This short but richly detailed memoir by Thomas Jefferson offers a rare autobiographical glimpse into the fascinating mind of this Founding Father during the tumultuous events of his remarkable public career. In addition to being our third President, Jefferson was Minister to France during...

From the birth of the Roman Empire to the rise of the city-states through the Renaissance and the making of modern Italy, Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Italy is a fascinating story of the forces and events that shaped this country. 

In his concise, richly detailed memoir My Sixty Years on the Plains fur-trapper W. T. Hamilton - also known as ‘Wildcat Bill’ - gives the reader a first-hand account of life outdoors in the Old West. From trailblazing to trading with Indians, Hamilton relates how a mountain man relied on his wits and specialized knowledge in order survive the inhospitable environments.

“Give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry. Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete...

The Saga of Pappy Gunn is the biography of heroic World War 2 US Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn.     “An affectionate biography of an almost legendary Air Force hero.” — Kirkus Reviews.

In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs...

In 1707 the three kingdoms of England, Ireland, and Scotland united to form Great Britain. "One of the most astonishing transformations in European history," in the words of historian Simon Schama. In A Short History of England, Ireland, and Scotland Mary Platt Parmele traces the origins and development of each nation from the dark ages to the modern era.

“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest! Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island. ‘Billy’ Bones, Robinson Crusoe, Friday, Lemuel Gulliver, Long John Silver, Captain Flint and the...

First published in 1850 as a pamphlet, The Law by Frederic Bastiat defines the nature of law and the role of government. It is essential reading for law students and anyone interested in jurisprudence.