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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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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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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...
View full detailsA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictures.From the Smithsonian Institution's renowned Anacostia Museum and...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state."--Publ...
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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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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...
View full detailsThe Blue, the Gray, and the Red is the first book dedicated solely to chronicling the numerous campaigns waged against the Indians in the American ...
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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...
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The Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world——by entrusting c...
View full detailsAmerica is a nation of firsts, from its pioneering innovation in technology and science to its politics, social affairs, and culture. But despite ...
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"A compelling account of Jackson's Indian-fighting days . . . as well a grand sweep of the conquest of the trans-Appalachian West, a more complex, ...
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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(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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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...
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You really can't believe everything you read . . . A premature newswire report announces the end of World War I, spurring wild celebrations in Ame...
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AN ENLIGHTENING, EXPANDED VIEW OF AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who took fishing ...
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Enter the workshops of America's early engineering geniuses and discover how they came up with their ideas and applied them to the marketplace. Dav...
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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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The possibility that Confederate President Jefferson Davis might have sent General Robert E. Lee to aide Braxton Bragg in his battle at Chattanooga...
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"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic t...
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