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When early settlers left their homelands to start a new life in America, they had dreams of owning their own land a prospering from their own effor...
View full detailsCritical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief"Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all ...
View full detailsAmerica is a nation of immigrants. Through naturalization records, genealogists, historians, and other scholars trace the immigration stores of ind...
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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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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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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...
View full detailsAn authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nationHow did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of ...
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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...
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The Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world——by entrusting c...
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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 detailsImportant New Resource for Native American Research from Ancestry.com of special interest to researchers of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek...
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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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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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Immigration Stories–A Fight for Justice and FreedomDiscover both triumphant and painful real life tales of immigrants who blazed trails and broke b...
View full detailsAdmitted to the Union in 1821 as the 24th state, Missouri is rich with the lore of American history. Within and along its borders flow two great ri...
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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 ...
View full detailsAlmost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the United States through Ellis Island (also called America's Gateway). In Elli...
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The Constitution was two years old and the United States was in serious danger. Bitter political rivalry between former allies and two surging issu...
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When the American forces in the Philippines surrendered in May 1942, a mining engineer named Wendell Fertig chose to take his chances in the jungle...
View full detailsWhen the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search ...
View full detailsThe Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it beforeSome of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence. Others simply take it for gran...
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Long before it was the site of shopping centers, corporate headquarters, and universities, Troy was a humble pioneer settlement comprised of farms ...
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Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power ...
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