United States category: 34172 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical book on a vital aspect of the Revolutionary War - the Virginia campaign, the blockade and siege of Yorktown, and the role of the French in the American Revolution. It was written by the Army War College in 1931.
Contents: Part I - Yorktown, 1781 * Part II - The French-American...
Littlefield Lands
Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and speculators,...
Uprooting Community
Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted...
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
The Great Task of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans...
Accidental Activists
Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered...
Metis and the Medicine Line
Creating a Border and Dividing a People
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Washington is the capital of the United States. Situated between the states of Maryland and Virginia on the east coast of the continent, Washington in the territory of the District of Columbia, and only called DC this is the only Federal District in the U.S... DC covers 106 sq. km and its centre in...
Single Star of the West
The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Does Texas’s experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an “accidental republic” for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West chronicles...
Dispatches From Bermuda
The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running activities....
Partisan Journalism
A History of Media Bias in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States,Jim A. Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship. Kuypers shows how the American journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and,...
by Thomas Vale
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique case study provides a methodology for creating and maintaining intelligence dominance consistent with rule-of-law principles.In recent decades, globalization has produced both positive trends, such as...
The Men Who Made the Constitution
Lives of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated the debates, the exchanges were also shaped by the dynamic personalities of the fifty-five delegates...
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...