North America category: 699 books
We Came Naked and Barefoot
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...
by Selwyn Dewdney, Kenneth Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota. Numerous drawings were made from these pictographs at a hundred different sites; the originals range in age from...
The New York Times Disunion
A History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some taking on...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, ca. 1488/1490 Valladolid, ca. 1557/1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition. He is remembered as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans, first...
The Fenian Season
A Canadian Historical Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This fast paced historical thriller takes place against the background of a rising Fenian movement in the United States and the overt hostility of Washington toward the ‘Canadas’ immediately after the American Civil War. The Fenian Brotherhood was dedicated to the freeing of Ireland from ‘British...
by Latifau Joseph François
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Joseph François Lafitau is acknowledged as one of history’s most significant and interesting figures in the field of ethnology. Regarded as one of the first modern ethnographies, Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times, a publication of the Champlain Society,...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Here is a record of one of history's great migrations, the Atlantic Migration to the New World, especially from 1770 to 1890, when eleven million people came from the British Isles to North America. The slow crossing by sailing ship was unpleasant even in the best accommodation, but for the poor conditions...
by Katherine Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
This particular Perkins family line goes back an amazing forty nine generations. My humble family line from West Tennessee who were small farmers actually came from ancient Kings and Queens of France and England. Follow the journey from the year 600 AD and this family's journey from Germany,...
Paniolo House Stories
From the Kupuna of Waimea, Hawai'i Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Paniolo House Stories Volume 1 includes interviews with Yoshio Hara, Eva Kealamakia, Elizabeth Kimura, Hisa Kimura, Mary Bell Lindsey, Katy Lowrey. Volume 2 includes interviews with Dan Miranda, Bea Nobriga, Blanche Rapoza, Grace Shigematsu, Ichiro Yamaguchi, and Shigeko Yoshikami. The purpose of...
Art, Artisans and Apprentices
Apprentice Painters & Sculptors in the Early Modern British Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Before the foundation of academies of art in London in 1758 and Philadelphia in 1805, most individuals who were to emerge as artists trained in workshops of varying degrees of relevance. Easel painters began their careers apprenticed to carriage, house, sign or ship painters, whilst a few were placed...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
New Netherland was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod while the settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States...
Cold Fire
Kennedy's Northern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and...
Columbus Was Last
From 200,000 to 1492, a Heretical History of Who Was First
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Columbus Was Last is an engrossing narrative about the research of archeologists, geographers, geologists, oceanographers, linguists, folklorists, ethnobotanists, and other scholars that convincingly dispels the simplistic legend that Columbus was the first to "discover" America.<p>...
Christopher Columbus
The Discovery of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Christopher Columbus in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus set out in 1492 to find a new route to Asia and the East Indies. But on 12...