United States category: 34172 books
A Patriot's History of the United States
From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of...
by Thomas E. Hudgeons, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Forover fifty years, The Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins has been the bestselling sourcebook for collectors. Filled with the most current values and the latest market reports, this updated edition has all the information you need to become a knowledgeable coin collector.
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The Civil War of 1812
American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants,...
The Historical Destiny of the United States
The Mystery of the American Money
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In order to understand the special work which the United States has been called upon to do in the history of Humanity, we have first to remember that the American people are, historically, that section of the people of Europe whose task it was to explore the continent of America, to subdue it and...
by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.
If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Three essays in this book provide the reader with a better and more comprehensive understanding of the ICC. War crimes have plagued mankind for centuries. While there is disagreement over...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
The Hundred-Year Marathon
China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role...
Ally
My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes a new afterword about the Iran nuclear agreement, the 2016 presidential race, and the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance
Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a period of transformative change for America...
Jewish History in the United States
The World's Foremost Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for...
The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War
While...
Autumn of the Black Snake
The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war
In 1783, with the signing of the Peace of Paris, the American Revolution was complete. And yet even as the newly independent United States secured peace with Great Britain, it found itself losing an escalating...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
George Washington, the first president of the United States, is much more than a monument on Mount Rushmore. Who was Washington, the general, president, and husband? He was first and foremost a man of impeccable honor which, despite military adversity and political wrangling, never abandoned him....
Limping through Life
A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Limping through Life
A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir
Jerry Apps
“Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed...