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American Historical Documents 1000-1904 (Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition, Registered edition)

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: P. F. Collier & Sons: January 1938

Seller ID: 324462

ISBN: B002C4EDOG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Russia's American Colony (Duke Press Policy Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: January 1987

Seller ID: 333039

ISBN: 0822306883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American, Canadian, and Soviet scholars gathered in Sitka under the auspices of the Kenan Institute to review and reinterpret the history of tsarist Russia's colonial outpost in Alaska. The result is this comprehensive examination of that history, which goes beyond the traditional concentration on political and diplomatic history by treating the economy, society, and culture of Alaska during the Russian period.
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The Timechart History of America

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Worth Partnership: January 2003

Seller ID: 334115

ISBN: 1903025052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House: July 2007

Seller ID: 348926

ISBN: 1400065305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh "butterflies" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight o...
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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 334406

ISBN: 0743203178

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Nothing Like It in the World" gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Cent...
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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 343196

ISBN: 0743203178

Condition: Used - Good

The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 347069

ISBN: 1560254084

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the sam...
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1001 Events That Made America: A Patriot's Handbook

By: Axelrod Ph.D., Alan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic: February 2006

Seller ID: 346580

ISBN: 0792253078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For some, patriotism means flags and parades, for others it's "My country right or wrong." But it's much more than that, and as Alan Axelrod observes in this revealing review of our history, true patriotism is built on a bedrock of understanding--who we are as individuals and as a nation, how our ideals and our democracy have evolved, and what it really means to be an American. It's a challenge that calls for an open mind and a clear perspective on the people, events, and issues that shaped our society--and that's just what "1001 Events That Made America" provides. This handy, informative c...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

By: Barry, John M.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 1998

Seller ID: 350637

ISBN: 0684840022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Awar...
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America in Midpassage (2 Volume set)

By: Beard, Charles

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Macmillan: January 1939

Seller ID: 346795

ISBN: B000J4JBU2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

By: Beth Macy

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Back Bay Books: October 2017

Seller ID: 330542

ISBN: 0316337528

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

By: Bolden, Tonya

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams: January 2014

Seller ID: 344703

ISBN: 1419708465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

By: Bonnie Angelo

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: October 2001

Seller ID: 334736

ISBN: 0060937114

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bonnie Angelo, a veteran reporter and writer for Time, has captured the daily lives, thoughts, and feelings of the remarkable women who played such a large role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents. From formidably aristocratic Sara Delano Roosevelt to diehard Democrat Martha Truman, champion athlete Dorothy Bush, and hard-living Virginia Clinton Kelley, Angelo blends these women's stories with the texture of their lives and with colorful details of their times. First Mothers is an in-depth look at the special mother-son relationships that nurtured and helped prope...
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By the Bomb's Early Light

By: Boyer, Paul

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pantheon: November 1986

Seller ID: 341687

ISBN: 0394747674

Condition: Used - Good

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

By: Bradley, James

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2009

Seller ID: 344204

ISBN: 0316008958

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name. In 2005, a century later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and discovered what had transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul. In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident an...
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The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr (American Portraits)

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Anchor: May 2012

Seller ID: 347070

ISBN: 0307743268

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history, Burr was also a man before his time--a proponent of equality between the sexes well over a century before women were able to vote in the US. Through Burr's extensive, witty correspondence with his daughter Theodosia, Brands traces the arc of a scandalous p...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

By: Brian Kilmeade,Don Yaeger

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sentinel: October 2017

Seller ID: 336448

ISBN: 0735213232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections

By: Brokaw, Tom

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Random House: November 1999

Seller ID: 341785

ISBN: 0375503943

Condition: Used - Good

"I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in "The Greatest Generation" about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today--the people I called the Greatest Generation--it was my way of saying thank you. I felt that this tribute was long overdue, but I was not prepared for the avalanche of letters and responses touched off by that ...
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