United States category: 34172 books
Nixon and Mao
The Week That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Margaret MacMillan, praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most significant moments in modern history.
In...
George Washington
The Life & Times of George Washington – Complete Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
George Washington (1732-1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and...
by Julian Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The History of United States by Julian Hawthorne is in the public dominion, why I buy it? For the followings motives: In addition of the original text there are others complementary texts. These text are: Battles of Lexington and Concord in 13 chapters, Salem witch trials in 23 chapters, Witch and...
by Mathew B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, Francis Trevelyan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner
Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original...
The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic
Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in the development of a uniform system of federal...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Read about the fascinating life of Benjamin Franklin, prolific philosopher, inventor, and Founding Father of the United States, in this beautifully illustrated version of his autobiography.
American icon Benjamin Franklin is known for many things: he published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack,...
History of the United States During Thomas Jefferson's Administrations (All 4 Volumes)
The Inauguration, American Ideals, Closure of the Mississippi, Monroe's Diplomacy, Legislation, The Louisiana Debate, Peace of Amiens, Relations With England and France, The Rise of a British Party
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson began on March 4, 1801, when he was inaugurated as the third President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1809. In domestic affairs Jefferson sought to put the principles of republicanism into action. In foreign affairs, the major developments were the acquisition...
Surviving Wounded Knee
The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee was...
by Caitlin Fitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.
In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
by Robert E. Hannigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
World War I constituted a milestone in the development of the United States as a world power. As the European powers exhausted themselves during the conflict, the U.S. government deployed its growing economic leverage, its military might, and its diplomacy to shape the outcome of the war and to influence...
by Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg);...
The United States in the Cold War
1945-1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events...
Condorcet
Writings on the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution....
The End of Iraq
How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The End of Iraq, definitive, tough-minded, clear-eyed, describes America's failed strategy toward that country and what must be done now.
The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three...