North America category: 699 books
by John Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Mackenzie House, the grey-brick townhouse, steps from modern Yonge-Dundas Square and the Toronto Eaton Centre, where the...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1933
Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally...
by Stanley Vestal
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Here is a story, in thinly disguised fictional form, of Plains Indians, especially a Cheyenne chief, Whirlwind—his manner of life, his beliefs, and particularly, his love of his son. The villain is a Mandan who is given refuge in the Cheyenne camp and then wreaks havoc with the lives of his hosts....
The Lives and Times of the Patriots
An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The Lives and Times of the Patriots was first published in 1938, the centennial of the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the subsequent Patriot raids over the border from the United States. The Canadian part of the agitation for constitutional and social reform, long a subject of controversy and bitterness,...
Franklin Roosevelt. Du New Deal à la conférence de Yalta
L’émergence d’une superpuissance
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Franklin Roosevelt en moins d’une heure !Aussi célèbre que George Washington et Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt a présidé les États-Unis durant une dizaine d’années. Arrivé au faîte du pouvoir alors que les effets de la Grande Dépression...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Mr. Guillet is a familiar figure in the field of Canadian local and social history: his work has been acclaimed for its thorough and accurate research, its skilful use of source material, its wealth of authenticated anecdote, and its attention to detail. Written in an attractive and comfortable style,...
This Is the Rat Speaking
Black Power and the Promise of Racial Consciousness at Franklin and Marshall College in the Age of the Takeover, 1967–69
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Author of Aliened American: A Biography of William Howard Day, 18251900; Legendary Locals of Harrisburg; and Biography of an Antislavery City: Antislavery Advocates, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Activists The demise of the so-called Jim Crow laws in 1964 and 1965 and the victory of the...
It's Me, Edward Wayne Edwards
the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Meet Edward Wayne Edwards, the most evil serial killer you've never heard of. In this chilling case-by-case analysis and story of the killer's life, former detective John A. Cameron argues that Edwards was not only responsible for the five torture-murders he confessed to and was eventually convicted...
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land
Unfinished Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships...
Music in Boston
Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852–1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852–1918 is a history of the city’s classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before the American Civil War and extends to the close of the Great War. The book provides insights into the intellectual foundation of Boston's musical...
Who's My Enemy?
Memories of an American Soldier in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Who's My Enemy? Memories of an American Soldier in Vietnam by Ivan Lynn Bowman is not your usual self-published book. It’s confession, catharsis, outrage, and psychotherapy all balled up together into an attack on the status quo. Take a big smart handsome athletic kid from...
The Mexican Revolution
Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms...
The Dignity of Every Human Being
New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
“The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s. Using extensive archival and documentary research, Kirk Niergarth follows the work of regional artists...
Losing Home
A Native Waters Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A story eight thousand years in the telling... “This is all a dream to me. A dream from a thousand years ago. And I’m only glad that I can experience it while I’m still awake...” This is the story of a nation, and that of one of its own sons. An abridged version of Roger Emile Stouff’s first...