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Series
A history of US volume 8
Language
English
Description
Award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States. Master storyteller and lifelong student of American history, Joy Hakim, takes readers from 9 to 99 on a breathtaking journey through time, from the Ice Age to the 21st century.
4) Lineage book
Author
Publisher
[The Society]
Pub. Date
1896-1921
Physical Desc
166 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
6) 1776
Author
Language
English
Description
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America's survival in the hands of George Washington.
In this masterful book, David McCullough...
In this masterful book, David McCullough...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. Partisan fury is not new, and Meacham shows us how 'the better angels of our nature' have repeatedly won the day. He paints surprising portraits of Lincoln, Grant, the Roosevelts, Woodrow Wilson, Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson. He illuminates the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther...
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Series
Civil War a narrative volume 1-9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.
Author
Language
English
Description
From "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has played in uniting and shaping a nation. Beginning with the...
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Language
English
Description
"In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. You'll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on...
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Language
English
Description
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard Fast
Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in
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Language
English
Description
The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Ayers examines the visions that moved...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to FDR, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. On 'Confronting the presidents', O'Reilly and Dugard present wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements--or lack thereof. Who best served America, and who undermined the founding ideals? How do decisions made in one era resonate today?...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the Second World War would conservative evangelicalism gain momentum, thanks in large...
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