North America category: 699 books
Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America
The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged...
by Ann Maire Kordas
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This study examines how childhood and adolescence were shaped by – and contributed to – Cold War politics in America.
Dear Dr. Spock
Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts...
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven hundred years. Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place. The aristocracy, Tocqueville believed, was gradually disappearing...
by History and Civilization Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book deals with the history of Paleolithic man and his descendants in America.
"As the centuries rolled by, and the river lessened in bulk, until it but little more than filled its present channel, there still remained along its shores the more cultured descendants of the primitive chipper...
by Frank H, John G, Francis Klett
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The Zuni Indians are Native Americans; a Pueblo tribe residing at Zuni on the bank of the Rio Zuni near the boundary of New Mexico, and in the adjoining villages of Nutria, Ojo Caliente, and Pescado. They were discovered by Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan missionary in 1539. Fray Marcos accompanied...
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age
In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...
Living with Animals
Ojibwe Spirit Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls,...
Ang Estados Unidos Presidente ug Gobyerno
The United States Presidents and Government In Cebuano
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Ang Estados Unidos Presidente ug Gobyerno sa tumong mao nga pun-on sa imong hunahuna uban sa yano nga sa kasaysayan kahibalo ug sa pagtabang sa bisan kinsa nga interesado sa American Kasaysayan ug pagkat-on mahitungod sa atong gobyerno. Matag usa sa among mga Presidente mibiya sa iyang o sa iyang...
Sjedinjene Države i predsjednici Vlade
The United States Presidents and Government In Bosnian
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Sjedinjene Države i predsjednici Vlade cilj je da ispunite svoj um s jednostavnim istorijskim znanjem i da pomogne nikome zanima u američkoj istoriji i učenje o našoj vladi. Svaki od naših predsjednika je ostavio svoju trag na povijesti SAD-a, na život američkog naroda i ljudi širom...
by Agnes Christina Laut
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Literary Thoughts edition presents The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North by Agnes Christina Laut ------ "The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North" was written by Agnes Christina Laut (1871–1936),...
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as...
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic
In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade,...
by Paul Francis Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
On April 7th 1863. The Union Navy steamed toward Charleston Harbor with nine ironclad ships intending to intimidate the city and its citizens into surrender. Instead, the Confederate Batteries on Fort Sumter and other points along the shore dealt the Union an embarrassing rebuke. Loss of life was limited...