American History

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the fortyyear battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.S. C. Gwynne?s Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise...

The #1 New York Times bestseller. New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an ...

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a ?compelling?masterfully told? (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King?s early years and rise to greatness.Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting t...

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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the postWorld War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, k...

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a...

Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is a...

This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the S. Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists & thei...

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Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, ...

I am learning how to besadand happyat the same time.Jude never thought she?d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.At first, everything in America seems too fast and too ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize?A mustread, cannotputdown history.? ? Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to ch...

With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country's elected prime minister, ushered in a quartercentury of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and antiAmericanism in the Middle East. Selected as one ...

In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people?s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true?if an army of bluesuited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his...

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous lifejourney of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot "the colossus of independence," as Thom...

Informs our understanding of American politicsthen and nowand gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republicJohn Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.Dur...

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Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece and groundbreaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò.In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowni...

Authorillustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller.An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, p...

Travel the world without leaving your living room.Much more than an ordinary atlas, this book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis. It features not only borders, cities, rivers, and peaks, but also places of historical and cultural interest, eminent personalities, ic...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ?GRIPPING?THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.? ?USA TODAY ?A WONDERFUL BOOK.? ?The Christian Science Monitor ?ENTHRALLING.? ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ?A MUSTREAD.? ?Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other?the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history.Just...

When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War....

Uncover the key moments that shaped American history in this extensive history encyclopedia for children.Get the background on the Battle of Yorktown and discover what started the American Revolution. Learn the legends of the Wild West. Relive the atmosphere of the "Roaring Twenties." Covering everything from the cultures of the first Native Americ...

Memphis, 1939. Twelveyearold Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family?s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge?until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children?...

The New York Times Bestseller!"This is The Most Inspiring Children?s Book We've Ever Seen."Refinery29.com"The very first kids' book released by the iconic publishing house City Lights, Rad American Women AZ navigates the alphabet from Angela Davis to Zora Neale Hurston with colorful illustrations and short, powerful narratives. The perfect gift ...

The First World War is one of history?s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe?s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.The First World War...

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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a nowclassic novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and grayheaded Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in...

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The revised, 10th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestsellerOver the past decade, A Patriot?s History of the United States has become the definitive conservative history of our country, correcting the biases of historians and other intellectuals who downplay the greatness of America?s patriots. Professors Schweikart and Allen have now ...

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Arm...

Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it is gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the ...

Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the American Revolution in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape.Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a bloodsoaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven ...

17 hours, 31 minutes On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirtytwo men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the voyage, the Jeannette's hull was...

The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her...

Alternate cover edition here.Nathan Hale, the author?s historical namesake, was America?s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said ?I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country? before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale?s Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history?s...

Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the MexicanAmerican War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.In 1770, the fu...

AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived.Dropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America's fate, ...

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Ulysses S. Grant was the first fourstar general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. As president, he brought stability to the country after years of war and upheaval. Y...