North America category: 699 books
The Loxleys and the War of 1812 Novel
The Novelisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
On June 18th, 1812, the United States of America declared war on Great Britain and looked to conquering Canada as the first military objective of the war.
Adapted by the author himself from the best-selling graphic novel, this novelisation introduces the Loxleys, a Canadian family living in...
by Bonnye Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
"What author Bonnye Mathews has managed to do is to expertly craft a series of notably entertaining novels that incorporates new data into an historical fictional accounts that bring these ancient peoples alive." -Midwest Book ReviewKi'ti's Story is a coming of age story of a girl predestined to lead...
The Lost Empire of Atlantis
History's Greatest Mystery Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“Tremendous. This guy has done history like you would not believe.”
—Glenn Beck
The secrets of history’s most enduring mystery are finally revealed in The Lost Empire of Atlantis. Through impeccable research and intelligent speculation, Gavin Menzies, the New York Times bestselling...
The Earth Shall Weep
A History of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A sweeping, well-written, long-view history” of Native American societies and “a sad epic of misunderstanding, mayhem, and massacre” (Kirkus Reviews).
In this groundbreaking, critically acclaimed historical account of the Native American peoples, James Wilson weaves a historical narrative...
Tragic Encounters
The People's History of Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“Pulling from his epic A People’s History of the United States**, Smith creates a chronological history of Native Americans.” —**Library Journal
During the last years of his life, Page Smith—one of America’s greatest historians—concentrated on composing a history of Native Americans...
by Henry W. Henshaw, James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
From the time of its discovery by Grijalva in 1534 until 1607, a number of fruitless attempts had been made by the Mexican authorities to colonize the peninsula of Lower California, and no small amount of treasure had been wasted in the efforts. The sole obstacle to the success of the schemes for...
by Bonnye Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.
Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC is book 2 in the popular Winds of Change series, a prehistoric fiction series on the peopling of the Americas.
Manak-na...
The Indian Great Awakening
Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined...
Colonial American History Stories - 1215 - 1664
Timeline of United States History, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Colonial American History Stories - 1215 – 1664 contains almost 300 history stories presented in a timeline that begins in 1215 with the signing of the Magna Carta to the printing of the first Bible in Colonial America in 1664. The historical events include both famous ones as well as many forgotten...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions...
Imperial Legacies
The British Empire Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Britain yesterday; America today.
The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most important, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home?
This comprehensive book will answer all of those...
Burton J. Hendrick’s Collected Works: The Victory At Sea, The Story of Life Insurance, and More! (5 Works)
(Pulitzer Prize work)
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author. He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for The Victory at Sea which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and again in 1929 for The Training of An American. Hendrick wrote the Age of Big Business...