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United States of LEGO®
A Brick Tour of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
United States of LEGO takes readers on a journey across America that has never been seen before. Photographer Jeff Friesen composes artful LEGO brick dioramas, each revealing a scene with a witty caption that celebrates what makes every American state unique, incorporating toy-scale monuments, colorful...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. A little over 200,000 votes in Mexico's 2006 presidential election determined whether or not the United States might soon share a border with a potentially communist country. A closer...
The Evolution of the U.S. Constitution
The Formation of the Constitution, Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Constitutional Amendment Process & Actions by the U.S. Congress, Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
James Madison introduced 12 amendments to the First Congress in 1789. Ten of these would go on to become what we now consider to be the Bill of Rights. One was never passed, while another dealing with Congressional salaries was not ratified until 1992, when it became the 27th Amendment. Based on the...
by J. Lloyd Mecham
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Of the several regional arrangements that function within the United Nations, the most elaborate in organization and function is the Organization of American States. Although the United Nations holds the primary responsibility for preserving international peace, its charter concedes virtual autonomy...
America, Empire of Liberty
A New History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A magisterial history of the United States by a prize-winning historian
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written."
--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great "empire...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history form the enduring legacy of America’s Founding Fathers including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution...
Forgotten Dead
Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This guide is based on the College Entrance Examination Board test in Advanced Placement United States History. The guide covers what most U.S. history students study in high school and college. Audience Intended for everyone interested in U.S. History, particularly high school and college students.FEATURES:-Fully...
by Kim E. Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
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Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present,...
New Orleans Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Enjoy your trip to the United States with the New Orleans Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to the United States Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental...
by Robert W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The period between 1775 and 1815 could be called the “critical period” of American foreign relations. At no time in American history was the existence of the republic in greater physical peril. Questions of foreign policy dominated American public life in a way unequalled until World War II. From...
Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity....
by Michael Bronski
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire,...