North America 2

From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashio……続きを見る

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, ……続きを見る

The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FD……続きを見る

In "Mob Rule in New Orleans", Ida B. Wells-Barnett explores the varying discrepancies in the press about Robert Charles’s lynching and the violence leading up to his death in 1900. Collecting her in……続きを見る

The Prophetic Anti-Gallic Letters Adam Thom and the Hidden Roots of The Dominion of Canada The Anti-Gallic Letters by Adam Thom was published in 1836 based on Thom's editorials in Montreal Herald wr……続きを見る

This is the story of the rise and eventual disappearance of approximately thirty German weekly newspapers during a period of slightly more than eighty years. It describes the successes and difficult……続きを見る

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout Amer……続きを見る

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, center……続きを見る

More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of……続きを見る

When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left Eng……続きを見る

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton’s is the history of the agency’s work on behalf ……続きを見る

The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The ‘perfect storm’ is a on……続きを見る

He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pi……続きを見る

At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of t……続きを見る

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literatureーin……続きを見る

About this book: The Call of the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rushーa period when strong sled……続きを見る

  The first of seven (to date) concise, comprehensive histories of California coastal towns, this HarborTown History of Catalina Island offers the tale of a lovely island, from its beginnin……続きを見る

Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antito……続きを見る

Original Narratives of Early American History Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States 1528-1543. This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS THE NARRATIVE OF ALVA……続きを見る

Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Sa……続きを見る

The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteent……続きを見る

First published in 1989, Eric L. Mills’s comprehensive history of biological oceanography has been praised as ‘superb’ (BioScience) and ‘proof that history need not be dull’ (The Northern Mariner). ……続きを見る

Lynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century. His two terms as president of the United Steelworkers of America, from 1983 until 1994, cappe……続きを見る

Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, ……続きを見る

In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationsh……続きを見る

The author has a unique knowledge of history, music in general and in particular the great melodies of Bonnie Scotland. That combination makes the work a must read whether you are interested in the ……続きを見る

Part 6 of the Parkman series "France and England in North America". According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author o……続きを見る

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming,……続きを見る

Matthew Henson's account of his journey to the North Pole with Robert Peary forms the basis for A NEGRO EXPLORER AT THE NORTH POLE. The account follow's Henson's and Peary's controversial 1909 attem……続きを見る