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Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community ー linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Mackenzie House, the g……続きを見る

Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent……続きを見る

The Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century – Winston Churchill called it the first “world war” – and the clash which forever changed the course of North Ame……続きを見る

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Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author. He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for The Victory at Sea which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Letters of……続きを見る

The Lorton Correctional Complex was one of the most notorious prisons in U.S. history. It housed convicts from Washington, D.C. Known for violence and corruption, it shaped and molded every man, or ……続きを見る

A criminal prosecutor discusses the illegal drug trade and the failure of the so-called “War on Drugs” to stop it. In 1971, President Richard Nixon coined the term “War on Drugs.” His campaign to er……続きを見る

Like many nonfiction books, “Musings for Music Lovers” evolved rather than was created during some burst of genius.  It began as an article for some music friends on an Internet forum;  ov……続きを見る

Broken Patterns, by award-winning journalist Anita M. Harris, places modern American professional women--and their mothers and grandmothers--in remarkable historical context. Based on interviews wit……続きを見る

Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New ……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book i……続きを見る

Les Tribus indiennes des États-Unis - Armand Mondot Enquête américaine sur les Origines, les Mœurs et l’état actuel des Indiens Les Tribus indiennes des États-Unis est un livre écrit par l'écrivain ……続きを見る

1492 is a Christopher Columbus biography in the form of a classic work of biographical fiction by Mary Johnson that tells the entire story of that fateful year and the voyage of the great Italian ex……続きを見る

Example in this ebook The Province of Quebec covers an area of over one hundred thousand square miles, and is the largest province in all the Dominion of Canada. The latter country is sometimes call……続きを見る

Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorr……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   The beautiful island of Porto Rico lies, as you will see by looking at the map, near that great open doorway to North America and the United States which we call the G……続きを見る

Example in this ebook Away up toward the frozen north lies the great peninsula, which the United States bought from the Russians, and thus became responsible for the native peoples from whom the Rus……続きを見る

Ottawa Book Award 2015 ー Shortlisted Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.| The years after World……続きを見る

Presenting all six installments of Richard Feltoe’s series on the War of 1812, gathered together in an ebook bundle. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern histori……続きを見る

Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biog……続きを見る

A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19t……続きを見る

Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was reall……続きを見る

Liberty against oppression, right against wrong - a clear message has come down to us about the origins of the American War of Independence, one of the founding events of the modern world. As with s……続きを見る

Hear the cannon roar at Valley Forge with George Washington, dance the night away at a Chicago Speakeasy during Prohibition, take a ringside seat for the gunfight at the OK Corral, ride Apollo 11 to……続きを見る

First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie "Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "……続きを見る

Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States shows a mature statesman at the height of his powers. But Lincoln's story starts long before that with a struggling countr……続きを見る

THE NORTH AMERICAN NEW LEFT was a protest-oriented movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In its early, developmental stage New Left theories evolved primarily from the trial-and-error experiences of its ……続きを見る

I call myself Q because I am a Star Trek Fan. No, I'm not a Trekker or Trekkie, just a fan. I don't have a copy of Spock Sings!, but enjoy the "Q" Character from Star Trek: The Next Generation. I li……続きを見る

Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day. Beginning with the Battle of Lake Champlain ……続きを見る

The combined focus of this series is, of course, the history of America and the history of American English. This first book, Cannibal (call it a prequel) sets the scene for European conquest of Ame……続きを見る