Best U S History Books
Best Free U S History Books of 2024
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Language of Flowers Book Reviews
Kate GreenawayCharming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19thcentury illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents tulip = fame; blue v...
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The Student As Historian Book Reviews
Peter PappasThis eBook is based on an innovative teacher’s workshop held in June 2015 The Student As Historian ~ Teaching with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. This ebook contain...
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History of the United States, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Reconstruction Book Reviews
Scott YenorThis volume continues the Ashbrook Center’s collection of primary documents covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. It is the third of ...
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Inside Pike Place Market Book Reviews
Pike Place Market Preservation & Development AuthorityInside Pike Place Market is a visually rich digital book that celebrates the urban design, role of citizen activism, immigrant and cultural groups, and principles embedded in the f...
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Gettysburg Address Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnThe Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the bestknown in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the af...
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The American Revolution Heroes 1775-1783 Book Reviews
Carver Academy 5th Grade StudentsBasic information about John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The Sons of Liberty, and George Washington.
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History of the United States, Volume 5 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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A Short History of the United States Book Reviews
Edward ChanningChanning's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Pr...
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Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States Book Reviews
Raphael SemmesIt is a history book. A number of publications have appeared, first and last, concerning the author and his career, as was naturally to have been expected. The Alabama was the firs...
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The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details Book Reviews
I. Windslow AyerThe signal potency of secret organizations at the South prior to the secession of States, and indeed the only really effective machinery by which an attempt at disunion by the peop...
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Japanese American Internment Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The Cold War Book Reviews
David KruglerThis collection of documents on the Cold War continues the Ashbrook Center’s  extended series of document collections covering major periods, themes, and institutions in A...
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Mexican American War Book Reviews
Flávio GarciaThis iBook offers an overview of the Mexican American War. It has videos and short checking for understanding quizzes.
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Building the American Republic, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Harry L. WatsonBuilding the American Republic  combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Wa...
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The Rough Riders Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltThis article is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the SpanishAmerican War and the only one of the three t...
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Progress and Poverty in Industrial America Book Reviews
Peter PappasHow do we evaluate the social costs and benefits of technological innovations?  New 21st century technologies and the emergence of a global economy have produced progress ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnEmancipation Proclamation summary: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the C...
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Jim Crow and Segregation Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The Federalist Book Reviews
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John JayThe new charter of government agreed upon in Philadelphia in 1787 faced the daunting challenge of approval by conventions in each of the states. Immediately there arose one of the ...
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History of the United States, Volume 2 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Documents and Debates in American History and Government Book Reviews
Sarah Morgan SmithThis collection of documents presents American history from 1493 to 1862 as a series of 15 chronologically arranged topics. For each of these, a selection of documents recreates a ...
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Southeast Alaska Book Reviews
Peter PappasMulticultural Alaska Series winner of Best Textbook Award2016. This volume tells the story of Southeast Alaska its geography, peoples, culture, and history and includes seven int...
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History of the United States, Volume 6 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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The Currency of Empire Book Reviews
Jonathan BarthIn The Currency of Empire , Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed...
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The Disfranchisement of the Negro Book Reviews
John L. LoveThe assault, under the forms of law, which is being made upon the political rights of the Negro is the symptom of an animus which has its roots imbedded in the past. It does not ma...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Book Reviews
Jefferson DavisThis book is written by Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. In this book he wrote straightforward about the history of the Con...
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A Week in September 2001 Book Reviews
Reinhard KargerThe disaster of September 11th began on a picturesque morning with magical photos of a still intact silhouette. The last sunrise between the twin towers shows an innocent morning ...
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A Short History of the Confederate States of America Book Reviews
Jefferson DavisA Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying...
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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Book Reviews
George Washington WilliamsSlavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the antislavery movem...
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Presidents of the United States Book Reviews
Mary AlepraInteresting facts about the Presidents of the United States.
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Assassination of Lincoln Book Reviews
T. M. HarrisIn this book published in 1892, U.S. General Thomas Meale Harris reviews the plot that resulted in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the trials of the conspir...
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Bill of Rights Book Reviews
Emily Terry & Blanca MedranoFun and interactive book over the Bill of Rights!
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The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King Book Reviews
Alan ConcannonThis short book covers the main aspects of Martin Luther King’s life and death fighting for Civil Rights in America. King studied and used many philosophies of the great writer Tol...
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A Matter of Conscience Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnThis foray into the East, where Lincoln was still a relative mystery, was for him a crucial moment. Still an unannounced candidate for president, he recognized an opportunity to di...
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The Great Depression and the New Deal Book Reviews
John, MoserThis collection of documents on the Depression and New Deal is the second volume in an extended series of document collections from the Ashbrook Center that will cover major period...
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Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassBorn a slave in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped and became one of America’s leading intellectuals and abolitionists. Here, two of his essays – My Escape from Slavery Reconstructio...
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American History in 50 Events Book Reviews
Henry FreemanAmerican History in 50 Events Have you ever wondered why America is the way it is?  Do you want to understand the events that have shaped American culture?  Are y...
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The Mormon Menace Book Reviews
John Doyle Lee & Alfred Henry LewisThis 1905 antiMormon book contains the autobiography of John Doyle Lee, who was executed in 1877 for his participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857. American journalist...
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The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War Book Reviews
Annie Heloise Abel"The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War" written by "Annie Heloise Abel", it's contain about the American Indian as Participant in the Civil W...
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The American Revolution Book Reviews
John FiskeThe struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the Americ...
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John Chamberlain Badger Mormon Frontiersman Book Reviews
David Von BadgerThe life of John Chamberlain Badger began at a time of great spiritual awakening in the United States.  While just a young boy, his parents became converts of the Church o...
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History of the United States, Volume 4 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Watergate Nixon 1968-1972 Book Reviews
Scott HarderThis book is designed to supplement the classroom teaching of the Nixon administration during the years 19681972.  The Watergate scandal and subsequent investigation and r...
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Know the Past, Find the Future Book Reviews
Various AuthorsFrom Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jonesmore than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite ...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book Reviews
Adam SmithHe remembered how it had seemed to him to him, a priest sweet to die if he might die clasping unrebuked this woman in his arms. The blood throbbed in his temples as he recalled the...
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On the Plains with General Custer Book Reviews
Elizabeth B. CusterPerhaps no battle in American history produced more controversy than the Battle of the Little Big Horn River. There in eastern Montana territory on June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colone...
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Discovering the South Book Reviews
Jennifer RitterhouseDuring the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a ba...
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Documents and Debates in American History and Government Book Reviews
David TuckerThis collection of documents presents American history from 1865 to 2009 as a series of 14 chronologically arranged topics. For each of these, a selection of documents recreates a ...
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The Handsomest Man in the Country Book Reviews
Nancy RadkeMally Buchanan always said she would marry The Handsomest Man in the Country. Almost eighteen, the war over and her family gone, Mally heads west to find her uncle and aunt. They a...
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The History of England, Volume I Book Reviews
David HumeThe History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England. Hume's History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution o...
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The Red Record Book Reviews
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe book is a Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States.
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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America Book Reviews
Moses GrandyThis is a history book. About a fortnight ago, the subject of the following brief Memoir came to me, bearing with him a letter from a dear friend and distinguished abolitionist in ...
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Understanding the Cosmos Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The Rise of the Standard Oil Company Book Reviews
Ida M. TarbellIn 1859 Edwin L. Drake, a former railway conductor, drilled the first artesian well specifically for petroleum near Titusville, Pennsylvania, and in effect “discovered oil.” Within...
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History of the United States, Volume 3 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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The Constitution Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Julian HawthorneBook gives an account of the events leading up to the foundation of the USA. The author offers a compelling story of our early history while describing the men and women.
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The Color Line Book Reviews
W.E.B. DuboisWith the publication of The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois emerged as a leading black intellectual of the new twentieth century. The book was a collection of fourtee...
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America Book Reviews
William Edward Burghardt Du BoisThis monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.e., national, State, and colonial s...
Best Paid U S History Books of 2024
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Language of Flowers Book Reviews
Kate GreenawayCharming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19thcentury illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents tulip = fame; blue v...
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The Student As Historian Book Reviews
Peter PappasThis eBook is based on an innovative teacher’s workshop held in June 2015 The Student As Historian ~ Teaching with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. This ebook contain...
-
History of the United States, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Reconstruction Book Reviews
Scott YenorThis volume continues the Ashbrook Center’s collection of primary documents covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. It is the third of ...
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Inside Pike Place Market Book Reviews
Pike Place Market Preservation & Development AuthorityInside Pike Place Market is a visually rich digital book that celebrates the urban design, role of citizen activism, immigrant and cultural groups, and principles embedded in the f...
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Gettysburg Address Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnThe Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the bestknown in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the af...
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The American Revolution Heroes 1775-1783 Book Reviews
Carver Academy 5th Grade StudentsBasic information about John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The Sons of Liberty, and George Washington.
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History of the United States, Volume 5 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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A Short History of the United States Book Reviews
Edward ChanningChanning's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Pr...
-
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States Book Reviews
Raphael SemmesIt is a history book. A number of publications have appeared, first and last, concerning the author and his career, as was naturally to have been expected. The Alabama was the firs...
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The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details Book Reviews
I. Windslow AyerThe signal potency of secret organizations at the South prior to the secession of States, and indeed the only really effective machinery by which an attempt at disunion by the peop...
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Japanese American Internment Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The Cold War Book Reviews
David KruglerThis collection of documents on the Cold War continues the Ashbrook Center’s  extended series of document collections covering major periods, themes, and institutions in A...
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Mexican American War Book Reviews
Flávio GarciaThis iBook offers an overview of the Mexican American War. It has videos and short checking for understanding quizzes.
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Building the American Republic, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Harry L. WatsonBuilding the American Republic  combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Wa...
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The Rough Riders Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltThis article is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the SpanishAmerican War and the only one of the three t...
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Progress and Poverty in Industrial America Book Reviews
Peter PappasHow do we evaluate the social costs and benefits of technological innovations?  New 21st century technologies and the emergence of a global economy have produced progress ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnEmancipation Proclamation summary: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the C...
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Jim Crow and Segregation Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The Federalist Book Reviews
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John JayThe new charter of government agreed upon in Philadelphia in 1787 faced the daunting challenge of approval by conventions in each of the states. Immediately there arose one of the ...
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History of the United States, Volume 2 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Documents and Debates in American History and Government Book Reviews
Sarah Morgan SmithThis collection of documents presents American history from 1493 to 1862 as a series of 15 chronologically arranged topics. For each of these, a selection of documents recreates a ...
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Southeast Alaska Book Reviews
Peter PappasMulticultural Alaska Series winner of Best Textbook Award2016. This volume tells the story of Southeast Alaska its geography, peoples, culture, and history and includes seven int...
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History of the United States, Volume 6 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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The Currency of Empire Book Reviews
Jonathan BarthIn The Currency of Empire , Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed...
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The Disfranchisement of the Negro Book Reviews
John L. LoveThe assault, under the forms of law, which is being made upon the political rights of the Negro is the symptom of an animus which has its roots imbedded in the past. It does not ma...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Book Reviews
Jefferson DavisThis book is written by Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. In this book he wrote straightforward about the history of the Con...
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A Week in September 2001 Book Reviews
Reinhard KargerThe disaster of September 11th began on a picturesque morning with magical photos of a still intact silhouette. The last sunrise between the twin towers shows an innocent morning ...
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A Short History of the Confederate States of America Book Reviews
Jefferson DavisA Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying...
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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Book Reviews
George Washington WilliamsSlavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the antislavery movem...
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Presidents of the United States Book Reviews
Mary AlepraInteresting facts about the Presidents of the United States.
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Assassination of Lincoln Book Reviews
T. M. HarrisIn this book published in 1892, U.S. General Thomas Meale Harris reviews the plot that resulted in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the trials of the conspir...
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Bill of Rights Book Reviews
Emily Terry & Blanca MedranoFun and interactive book over the Bill of Rights!
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The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King Book Reviews
Alan ConcannonThis short book covers the main aspects of Martin Luther King’s life and death fighting for Civil Rights in America. King studied and used many philosophies of the great writer Tol...
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A Matter of Conscience Book Reviews
Abraham LincolnThis foray into the East, where Lincoln was still a relative mystery, was for him a crucial moment. Still an unannounced candidate for president, he recognized an opportunity to di...
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The Great Depression and the New Deal Book Reviews
John, MoserThis collection of documents on the Depression and New Deal is the second volume in an extended series of document collections from the Ashbrook Center that will cover major period...
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Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassBorn a slave in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped and became one of America’s leading intellectuals and abolitionists. Here, two of his essays – My Escape from Slavery Reconstructio...
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American History in 50 Events Book Reviews
Henry FreemanAmerican History in 50 Events Have you ever wondered why America is the way it is?  Do you want to understand the events that have shaped American culture?  Are y...
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The Mormon Menace Book Reviews
John Doyle Lee & Alfred Henry LewisThis 1905 antiMormon book contains the autobiography of John Doyle Lee, who was executed in 1877 for his participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857. American journalist...
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The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War Book Reviews
Annie Heloise Abel"The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War" written by "Annie Heloise Abel", it's contain about the American Indian as Participant in the Civil W...
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The American Revolution Book Reviews
John FiskeThe struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the Americ...
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John Chamberlain Badger Mormon Frontiersman Book Reviews
David Von BadgerThe life of John Chamberlain Badger began at a time of great spiritual awakening in the United States.  While just a young boy, his parents became converts of the Church o...
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History of the United States, Volume 4 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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Watergate Nixon 1968-1972 Book Reviews
Scott HarderThis book is designed to supplement the classroom teaching of the Nixon administration during the years 19681972.  The Watergate scandal and subsequent investigation and r...
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Know the Past, Find the Future Book Reviews
Various AuthorsFrom Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jonesmore than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite ...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book Reviews
Adam SmithHe remembered how it had seemed to him to him, a priest sweet to die if he might die clasping unrebuked this woman in his arms. The blood throbbed in his temples as he recalled the...
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On the Plains with General Custer Book Reviews
Elizabeth B. CusterPerhaps no battle in American history produced more controversy than the Battle of the Little Big Horn River. There in eastern Montana territory on June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colone...
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Discovering the South Book Reviews
Jennifer RitterhouseDuring the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a ba...
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Documents and Debates in American History and Government Book Reviews
David TuckerThis collection of documents presents American history from 1865 to 2009 as a series of 14 chronologically arranged topics. For each of these, a selection of documents recreates a ...
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The Handsomest Man in the Country Book Reviews
Nancy RadkeMally Buchanan always said she would marry The Handsomest Man in the Country. Almost eighteen, the war over and her family gone, Mally heads west to find her uncle and aunt. They a...
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The History of England, Volume I Book Reviews
David HumeThe History of England (1754–61) is David Hume's great work on the history of England. Hume's History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution o...
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The Red Record Book Reviews
Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe book is a Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States.
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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America Book Reviews
Moses GrandyThis is a history book. About a fortnight ago, the subject of the following brief Memoir came to me, bearing with him a letter from a dear friend and distinguished abolitionist in ...
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Understanding the Cosmos Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
-
The Rise of the Standard Oil Company Book Reviews
Ida M. TarbellIn 1859 Edwin L. Drake, a former railway conductor, drilled the first artesian well specifically for petroleum near Titusville, Pennsylvania, and in effect “discovered oil.” Within...
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History of the United States, Volume 3 Book Reviews
Elisha Benjamin AndrewsThe authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrou...
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The Constitution Book Reviews
Library of CongressThis Library of Congress Student Discovery Set is here to put history into your hands. It brings together historical artifacts and oneofakind documents from the collections of the ...
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The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 Book Reviews
Julian HawthorneBook gives an account of the events leading up to the foundation of the USA. The author offers a compelling story of our early history while describing the men and women.
-
The Color Line Book Reviews
W.E.B. DuboisWith the publication of The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois emerged as a leading black intellectual of the new twentieth century. The book was a collection of fourtee...
-
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America Book Reviews
William Edward Burghardt Du BoisThis monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.e., national, State, and colonial s...
