American History

Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures,...

America's foremost left-wing journalist of the post-World War I era was I.F. "Izzy" Stone. At the time of his death in 1989, Stone had completed the passage he once predicted...

Bull Run - Ball's Bluff - Chickamauga - Antietam - Secessionville - Champion's Hill. To the Northern public during the Civil War, they were exotic names of unfamiliar places where...

Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of...

A New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year. A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history...

"History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent--and memorable." -- San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About...

A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of...

Author: Booth MooneyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, Australia, 1964Condition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe book chronicles the life and political career of Lyndon B. Johnson. It offers...

Author: Barbara GoldsmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book chronicles the life of a prominent figure, detailing her journey through significant personal and societal...

Author: John GassnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Crown Publishers, 1963Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a curated collection of twenty-five significant plays from the modern American theatre. This...

Author: Jean LipmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1942Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a comprehensive study of American primitive painting, showcasing the...

Author: Nigel NicolsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the life of Mary Curzon, an American heiress from Chicago. She embarked...

Author: Allen DruryBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1960Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAllen Drury's seminal novel plunges readers into the intricate world of Washington D.C. A controversial presidential nomination...

Author: Claudio VélizBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press, 1994Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work examines the intricate relationship between cultural development and economic structures across...

Author: Doreen CowperthwaiteBinding: HardbackPublished: Council of the College, Melbourne, 1969Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the rich history of the Presbyterian Girls' College located in Geelong, Victoria,...

Author: J. Fenimore CooperBinding: HardbackPublished: Dean & Son Ltd., 1111Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings"The Last of the Mohicans" transports readers to the tumultuous backdrop of the...

Author: Belva PlainBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, London, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis novel follows the fortunes of the Werner family, German Jewish immigrants in New York....

On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson's 250th birthday, a number of today's leading historicans take a fresh look at our third president, architect of democracy for his time and still...

One of the most important events in Scotland's history, which contributed directly to the 1707 Act of Union with England. The word Darien is a scar on the memory of...

The story of Fray Servando's life in exile recounst the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a...

Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He examines the budget,...

In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...

As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...

Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...

Follow in the footsteps of the famed explorers, from Washington DC to Washington state It has been 200 years since their epic trek across Western America, yet Lewis and Clark...

This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...

Author: Jules FeldmannBinding: HardbackPublished: J. Gadsden Australia Ltd., Melbourne, May, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account chronicles the evolution of Gadsden over its formative...

Author: Bernard Asbell (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson, London , 1982Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsEleanor and Anna Roosevelt share intimate thoughts and observations. They reveal the...

Author: Douglas FetherlingBinding: HardbackPublished: Broadview Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of anecdotes that offer insights into Canadian history and culture....

Author: Robert Aquinas McnallyBinding: HardbackPublished: Bison Books, 2017Condition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account details a tragic story of genocide during America's Gilded Age....

Author: Isabella L. BirdBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains recounts the travels and experiences of...

Author: Walt Whitman; Gavin Ewart (introduction by)Binding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a collection of observations and reflections. The author...

Author: J. O. RandellBinding: HardbackPublished: Brown Prior Anderson, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the history of the McLaurin, McMeekin, and Paton families. It traces...

Author: Maggie WeidenhoferBinding: HardbackPublished: Currey O'Neil Melbourne, 1985Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a collection of stories and insights into the lives of women during...

"For Vanity Fair, I'll pose like Monroe the beauty who fell so far and so low As for me, I can handle the fame and the glamour Make the damn...

Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860....

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Author: Gerald ClarkeBinding: SoftbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, New York - BOMC, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography provides a comprehensive look into the life of Truman...

Author: Eli N. EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Free Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionJudah P. Benjamin served as the Confederacy's Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary...

Author: Harry Kalven, Jr., And Hans ZeiselBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 1993Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis special edition of the book examines the American...

Author: Richard KlugerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 1994Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis special edition tells of a pivotal moment in American legal history. It...