Destructive Creation

During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Alli...

A Wicked War

Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation late...

The Correlation and Conservation of Forces

The National Museum of American History

Text and commentary explain the 350 color photographs, which illustrate the social history of an America that was and that shaped today's America

Twa Tribes Scots Among the Native Americans

This is an enlightening account of three pioneering Scots and the special relationships they had with the native people of North America. Hugo Reid, Alexander Ross and Charles McKenzie fought against...

Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them

Ruth Finley. First published in 1929, this record of the most picturesque of all American folk arts is an enduring contribution to the study of women's history. The 200 photographs and diagrams of the...

SOG Knives and More from America's War in Southeast Asia

This guide showcases knives used by America's clandestine military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It provides the collector and others interested in the period a way of identifying honest S...

Loose-Leaf Version for the American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 2 8e & Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 2: Since 18

Memoires a. pien

Memoires a. pien is een boek van Pien

The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems. by George Eliot.

Unsinkable

The familiar story of the RMS Titanic--from her tragic 10-second encounter with an iceberg to her descent to the bottom of the ocean some three hours later, taking with her more than 1,500 lives--stil...

Essays

Arizona and Sonora

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit...

Fair Harvard

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit...

Campaigns and Commanders Series- Going for Broke

When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers - including Japanese Amer...

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a...

Arthur Ashe

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe-the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis-a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barri...

Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood

People don't leave the Point, even if they move far away. Or at least that's how it seems to journalist Kathy Dobson. Growing up in the 1970s in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal, she...

Hands-On History! Ancient Japan

This title lets you step back to the time of shoguns and samurai, with 15 step-by-step projects and over 330 exciting pictures. You can discover the amazing Japanese civilization and learn about a cul...

De academie van Vriesland

Geschiedenis van de Academie en het Athenaeum te Franeker, 1585-1843Opgericht in 1585 bestond er in het provinciestadje Franeker ruim 250 jaar lang een instelling voor academisch onderwijs, eerst als...