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In 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millio...
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In the nineteenth century, the people of Alabama relied on newspapers to learn about the world outside their own hometowns. Prior to the 1890s, the...
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Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in Am...
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In the first major biography of Noah Webster in over sixty years, author Harlow Unger creates an intriguing portrait of the United States as an ene...
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A comprehensive, highly readable referenceThis is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration of North America...
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A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...
View full detailsBy the late nineteenth century, the city of Jacksonville was a vibrant cultural center on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Through changing fortunes, Jack...
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Originally published in 1898, Thomas Jefferson a classic biography of the man who so deeply ingrained the republican ideals of the Founding Fathers...
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By the end of 1798, France--"our oldest ally"--had captured or sunk more than eight hundred American ships, and President John Adams called George ...
View full detailsSnapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations—from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't...
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(From the Preface) This book on the history of Farmington represents more than two and a half years of work by the staff of the Farmington Public L...
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Story of the Sioux uprising of 1862 along the Mississippi River in Minnesota. 300 Dakota Indians were sentenced to death. We earn a commission for ...
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Whet Your Appetites for A Fascinating History of American Food"Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A g...
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At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Musl...
View full detailsThe Nutmeg State, the Constitution State, the Land of Steady Habits. For a state that some derisively claim is "no bigger than a postage stamp,” th...
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Praise for Harlow Giles Unger's Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot"Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate...
View full detailsIn 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies–born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon’s conscription. His work would become inextrica...
View full detailsAfter seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tenn...
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They did the dirty work of the American RevolutionTheir spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of...
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Black Heroes Who Have Made Us a Better AmericaActivists and rap stars, abolitionists and pioneers, inventors and scientists surge with life through...
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America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these...
View full detailsNative South Carolinian and historian Benjamin Brawley once wrote, "The little triangle on the map known as South Carolina represents a portion of ...
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Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan, seven miles south of Sout...
View full detailsNo scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essen...
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