North America category: 699 books
No Accident, Comrade
Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the...
by Carol A. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A Book for the Curious,
Amateur and Serious Genealogists
Do you Want To Know More
About the Past?
The early 1900’s was a time of change. World events controlled people’s everyday lives and society norms were challenged. Where were your ancestors during World War I? ...
Charlie Chaplin
A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Richard Carr’s Charlie Chaplin places politics at the centre of the filmmaker’s life as it looks beyond Chaplin’s role as a comedic figure to his constant political engagement both on and off the screen.
Drawing from a wealth of archival sources from across the globe, Carr provides an...
LOOKING FOR HUMBOLDT
& Searching for german footprints in new mexico and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
As a German-American explores the colorful landscape of the American Southwest, its adventure-rich past, and the roles played by Humboldt and a handful of German participants and immigrant soldiers come alive. Early on, Spanish and English methods collide. With exquisite detail and stark honesty,...
101 Stumbles in the March of History
What If the Great Mistakes in War, Government, Industry, and Economics Were Not Made?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
An all-new compendium of 101 historic screw-ups from the author of 100 Mistakes that Changed History.
DID I DO THAT???
When asked to name a successor, Alexander the Great declared that his empire should go “to the strongest”. . . but would rival factions have descended into war if...
Reagan's Demise
The Iran Contra Affair As It Relates to Trumpism in 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
America's Schizoaffective Writer of Short Works writes about Regan's Demise and the Iran Contra Affair as it relates to Trumpism in 2017.
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by John Borthwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1857 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This edition contains color illustrations. John David Borthwick, born (1824-1892) in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a prominent physician, was a nomadic Scottish journalist and author who received both a gentleman’s...
White Pine
American History and the Tree That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early America—and in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling read, almost an adventure story.
An Empire of Regions
A Brief History of Colonial British America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
An Empire of Regions is a refreshing interpretation of British American history that demonstrates how the thirteen British mainland colonies grew to function as self-governing entities in distinct regional clusters. In lucid prose, Eric Nellis invites readers to explore the circumstances leading to...
by Gary Wonning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Each generation from the beginning of our country has contributed to what our country has become. By the same token, no one is perfect. Consequently, each generation has done and will continue to perform acts that it would have been better if some other course of action was taken. The baby boomers have contributed much and have been blamed for the decline of America. What is the true story?
by jared william carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The second part book on Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb and almost ended the world.
Inventing American Tradition
From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference,...
by Madeline Y. Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even...
by Rosemary O'Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies.
This...