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From the earliest days of the United States, millions of Americans have served their country in the military. Indeed, most families have seen one o...
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 ...
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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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A comprehensive, highly readable referenceThis is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration of North America...
View full detailsA stirring tale of adventure and tragedy"They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tires...
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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...
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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 detailsOne of the thirteen original colonies, the state of New Jersey is a study in contrasts. It is both the Garden State, home to the Rutgers tomato, bu...
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Spanning more than two hundred years of martial adventurism, aggression, and outright blundering, Arrogant Armies chronicles the profoundly misguid...
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Wide-ranging, authoritative, and timely, here is an illuminating portrait of America's Native peoples, combining information about their history an...
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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...
View full detailsIn 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...
View full detailsThe birthplace of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, Pennsylvania is steeped in history as deep as that of th...
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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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Whet Your Appetites for A Fascinating History of American Food"Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A g...
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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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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For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, ca...
View full detailsThis is the first truly complete treatment of the history and genealogy of Plymouth Colony. It includes a concise history of the colony, both chron...
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For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in ...
View full detailsAn adventure through the classic, the vintage, the kitsch, the nostalgic, and the fun of Americana culture guided by showman Charles Phoenix. “Add...
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We will walk on our own feet;we will work with our own hands;we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837From th...
View full detailsLike the tides of the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore’s fortunes have ebbed and flowed through the years, from its bustling beginnings as a colonial port...
View full detailsPhiladelphia began, nearly a century before the American Revolution, as the colony of Englishman and Quaker convert William Penn. Founded in 1681 o...
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