North America category: 699 books
The Road to Dawn
Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.
-He rescued 118 enslaved people
-He won a medal at the first World's Fair in London
-Queen Victoria invited him...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
• Fleck is a noted scholar of Thoreau and has presented at the Thoreau Institute. • Fascinating account of Thoreau’s only international travel experience to Quebec in 1850. • Unlike the many facsimile reproductions available, this edition features a modern design that enhances readability. • Part of the Literary Naturalist Series and features a new foreword.
So Far from God
The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona,...
by Carol A. Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
A Book for the Curious,
Amateur and Serious Genealogists
Do You Want To Know
More About the Past?
Are you a genealogist looking for background information? Ancestors are more than just a name and date. The past becomes more alive when you realize your ancestors were...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just...
The Age of Nixon
A Study in Cultural Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
The fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American people, connections that can be detected both in...
The Constitution in Crisis
The High Crimes of the Bush Administration and a Blueprint for Impeachment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
The Republican-led Congress has been notoriously slow to investigate the current Republican administration. For that reason, Representative Conyers of Michigan commissioned his staff to put together the report that became The Constitution in Crisis. It chronicles the deceptions, manipulations, and...
The Gods of Prophetstown
The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would see darkness come...
by Gary Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The events of 9/11 shook the world. But how much do you really know about what happened that day? If your knowledge is based purely on what you've seen on the nightly news, prepare to have your mind blown as the unfiltered true facts of that horrific day are made clear in this fantastic book which...
The Forgotten Presidents
Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak or...
River of Hope
Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...
Sir Robert Borden
Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Sir Robert Borden was Plenipotentiary of Canada at the Peace Conference. With the Versailles Treaty ratified by the Canadian Parliament, Borden largely believed his work was done. He retired as Prime Minister in 1920. Although Borden died in 1937, the great legacy for Canada that derived from Borden's...
Cajun By Any Other Name
Recovering the Lost History of a Family and a People
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Readers of Cajun By Any Other Name live the experience of Acadian ancestors whose lives were shattered by a forced expulsion from Nova Scotia in 1755 - from their exile in Maryland and re-emergence in the Louisiana parishes - and join a search for an identity nearly destroyed by re-tooled surnames,...
Oklahoma
A Sense of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
To be sure, Oklahoma is a land of contrasts. Within the state one can find red necks and blue bloods, pickups and polo ponies, beer joints and country clubs, fiery preachers and pagans, rodeo and ballet. Oklahoma is the nation’s great mixing bowl.
Yet all too often even native-born Oklahomans...