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  • Presidents of the United States reviews

    Presidents of the United States Book Reviews

    Mary Alepra

    Interesting facts about the Presidents of the United States.

  • A Week in September 2001 reviews

    A Week in September 2001 Book Reviews

    Reinhard Karger

    The 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 ...

  • The Color Line reviews

    The Color Line Book Reviews

    W.E.B. Dubois

    With 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...

  • U.S. History Sourcebook - Basic reviews

    U.S. History Sourcebook - Basic Book Reviews

    Rob Lucas

    Donated to CK12, U.S. History Sourcebook Basic covers U.S. history from Colonial America through World War I.

  • Sketches and Studies reviews

    Sketches and Studies Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    They were not boys, but, for the most part, well advanced towards maturity; and, having wrought out their own means of education, were little inclined to neglect the opportunities ...

  • The Handsomest Man in the Country reviews

    The Handsomest Man in the Country Book Reviews

    Nancy Radke

    Mally 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...

  • Japanese American Internment reviews

    Japanese American Internment Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War reviews

    Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War Book Reviews

    George Washington Cable

    The loss of so many brave and honorable men during the war and loss of a great President. American people don't take kindly to ultimatums and the northern politicians conspire...

  • Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln reviews

    Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Human Rights Abuses in 20th Century reviews

    Human Rights Abuses in 20th Century Book Reviews

    Jeremy Reid

    Discover the background and details of human rights abuses around the world in the 20th Century. The struggle for equality and freedom are universal to peoples from all over the wo...

  • The Right of American Slavery reviews

    The Right of American Slavery Book Reviews

    True Worthy Hoit

    This book is a proslavery argument published a year before Civil War.

  • The American Revolution reviews

    The American Revolution Book Reviews

    John Fiske

    The 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...

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations reviews

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book Reviews

    Adam Smith

    He 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...

  • Across the Plains to California in 1852 reviews

    Across the Plains to California in 1852 Book Reviews

    Lodisa Frizell

    This simple narrative journal was written at Cañon Creek in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, in the middle of December, 1852, by Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husba...

  • Industrial Revolution reviews

    Industrial Revolution Book Reviews

    Alli DeMoss

    Industrial Revolution U.S. History Project Byron Nelson High School Science/Health Technical Creative Writing

  • United States History reviews

    United States History Book Reviews

    Marlene Bailey, Denise Gallemore, Whitney Holdwick, Karyn Hutchinson, Denise Knapp & Sara Smith

    Fifth grade students in Michigan begin their study of American history with American Indian peoples before the arrival of European explorers and conclude with the adoption of the B...

  • The Underground Railroad reviews

    The Underground Railroad Book Reviews

    William Still

    In looking back now over these strange and eventful Providences, in the light of the wonderful changes wrought by Emancipation, I am more and more constrained to believe that the r...

  • Eisenhower reviews

    Eisenhower Book Reviews

    Scott Harder

    This book examines the Presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.  The reader will be exposed to the Eisenhower campaign strategy both before and after the Rep...

  • When the Smoke Clears reviews

    When the Smoke Clears Book Reviews

    Tom Rizzo

    Much of the legend and the lore of the Old West involve gunslingers and gunfights. Most of the people who populated the new American frontier in the 19th century owned guns and use...

  • Bill of Rights reviews

    Bill of Rights Book Reviews

    Emily Terry & Blanca Medrano

    Fun and interactive book over the Bill of Rights!

  • The Federalist reviews

    The Federalist Book Reviews

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay

    The 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 ...

  • Hidden Figures Teaching Guide reviews

    Hidden Figures Teaching Guide Book Reviews

    Margot Lee Shetterly & Kim Racon

    We know that teachers are always looking for new and inspiring books to assign to their students. To help you decide if Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures is right for your clas...

  • Chumash reviews

    Chumash Book Reviews

    Ivan Bradley

    This eBook on the Chumash people of the central coast of California was created as a means to teach the use of Apple’s iBooks Author 2.0 and also to further educate students about ...

  • Lectures on Modern history reviews

    Lectures on Modern history Book Reviews

    Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

    Sir John Emerich Edward DalbergActon, known as Lord Acton, was an English historian and master of the principal foreign languages. During his time, he didn’t publish any book, but ...

  • The Indian Question reviews

    The Indian Question Book Reviews

    Francis Amasa Walker

    Francis Amasa Walker was an important American statesman and, during the Civil War, Union Army officer. This is his consideration of the problem of US federal relations with Native...

  • The Constitution reviews

    The Constitution Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Comentarios a la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos de America reviews

    Comentarios a la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos de America Book Reviews

    James Kent & J. Cárlos Mexia

    Obra escrita por el canciller de Nueva York, James Kent, y llevada al español por Calos Mexía. Describe la historia de la Unión Americana, los Poderes Legislativo, Ejecutivo y Judi...

  • The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War reviews

    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...

  • American History in 50 Events reviews

    American History in 50 Events Book Reviews

    Henry Freeman

    American 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...

  • From Manassas to Appomattox reviews

    From Manassas to Appomattox Book Reviews

    James Longstreet

    James Longstreet, one of the foremost Generals in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, here recounts his personal war experiences and provides extensive historical a...

  • History of the United States, Volume 1 reviews

    History of the United States, Volume 1 Book Reviews

    Elisha Benjamin Andrews

    The 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...

  • The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King reviews

    The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King Book Reviews

    Alan Concannon

    This 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...

  • History of the United States reviews

    History of the United States Book Reviews

    Mary Ritter Beard

    As things now stand, the course of instruction in American histoiy in our public schools embraces three distinct treatments of the subject. Three separate books are used. First, th...

  • Gettysburg Address reviews

    Gettysburg Address Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    The 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...

  • The English Church in the Eighteenth Century reviews

    The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Book Reviews

    Charles John Abbey

    This is a history book. This is a history of the English church in the 18th century when Anglicanism started expanding beyond the borders of England thanks to the political and eco...

  • A Matter of Conscience reviews

    A Matter of Conscience Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    This 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...

  • World War I reviews

    World War I Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Language of Flowers reviews

    Language of Flowers Book Reviews

    Kate Greenaway

    Charming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19thcentury illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents tulip = fame; blue v...

  • The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government reviews

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Book Reviews

    Jefferson Davis

    This 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...

  • Declaration of Independence of the United States of America reviews

    Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Book Reviews

    United States

    It is a history book. The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen Americ...

  • The Emancipation Proclamation reviews

    The Emancipation Proclamation Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    Emancipation 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...

  • The Dust Bowl reviews

    The Dust Bowl Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee reviews

    The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee Book Reviews

    John K. Shellenberger

    When Opdycke’s brigade, the last to withdraw, came up to the position occupied by Conrad and Lane, Wagner rode forward and ordered Opdycke into line with them. Colonel Opdycke stre...

  • Ashes of Soldiers reviews

    Ashes of Soldiers Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman

    “The War of Attempted Secession has, of course, been the distinguishing event of my time,” wrote Walt Whitman after the struggle was over. “I commenced at the close of 1862, and co...

  • Hospital Sketches reviews

    Hospital Sketches Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken ""from letters hastily written in t...

  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln reviews

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln & Arthur Brooks Lapsley

    This volume contains the works of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln from October 1863 until April 1865, including his last written words on April 14. This is the last of seven volumes...

  • Symbols of the United States reviews

    Symbols of the United States Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 reviews

    History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Book Reviews

    George Washington Williams

    Slavery 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...

  • A History of the Republican Party reviews

    A History of the Republican Party Book Reviews

    George Washington Platt

    George Washington Platt’s 1904 history explores the development of the Republican Party, from the formative causes of its founding to Theodore Roosevelt’s first term as president.

  • The Civil War Centennial Handbook reviews

    The Civil War Centennial Handbook Book Reviews

    William H. Price

    This history of the American Civil War includes many photographs, color reproductions of Union and Confederate uniforms, and a reference table of battles.

  • The Industrial Revolution in the United States reviews

    The Industrial Revolution in the United States Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 Trial of Theodore Parker reviews

    The Trial of Theodore Parker Book Reviews

    Theodore Parker

    There was widespread disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which enlisted the powers of the national government to return escaped slaves to their masters. Blacks and whit...

  • The History of England, Volume I reviews

    The History of England, Volume I Book Reviews

    David Hume

    The 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...

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, reviews

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Book Reviews

    Olaudah Equiano

    Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership reveals many aspects of...

  • The Disfranchisement of the Negro reviews

    The Disfranchisement of the Negro Book Reviews

    John L. Love

    The 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...

  • Weather Forecasting reviews

    Weather Forecasting Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • On the Plains with General Custer reviews

    On the Plains with General Custer Book Reviews

    Elizabeth B. Custer

    Perhaps 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...

  • Black History reviews

    Black History Book Reviews

    Hannah Doyle

    Written by Hannah Doyle, a fifthgrader at Willow Wind Community Learning Center in Ashland Oregon, Black History is a 5 page "expert study project" that discusses the his...

  • The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist reviews

    The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist Book Reviews

    Annie Heloise Abel

    This volume was composed in order to shed light on the role of Native Americans during the Civil War. The book discusses the alliance between the Confederacy and Native American tr...

  • Know the Past, Find the Future reviews

    Know the Past, Find the Future Book Reviews

    Various Authors

    From 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 ...

Best Seller Paid United States Books of 2023

  • Presidents of the United States reviews

    Presidents of the United States Book Reviews

    Mary Alepra

    Interesting facts about the Presidents of the United States.

  • A Week in September 2001 reviews

    A Week in September 2001 Book Reviews

    Reinhard Karger

    The 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 ...

  • The Color Line reviews

    The Color Line Book Reviews

    W.E.B. Dubois

    With 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...

  • U.S. History Sourcebook - Basic reviews

    U.S. History Sourcebook - Basic Book Reviews

    Rob Lucas

    Donated to CK12, U.S. History Sourcebook Basic covers U.S. history from Colonial America through World War I.

  • Sketches and Studies reviews

    Sketches and Studies Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    They were not boys, but, for the most part, well advanced towards maturity; and, having wrought out their own means of education, were little inclined to neglect the opportunities ...

  • The Handsomest Man in the Country reviews

    The Handsomest Man in the Country Book Reviews

    Nancy Radke

    Mally 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...

  • Japanese American Internment reviews

    Japanese American Internment Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War reviews

    Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War Book Reviews

    George Washington Cable

    The loss of so many brave and honorable men during the war and loss of a great President. American people don't take kindly to ultimatums and the northern politicians conspire...

  • Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln reviews

    Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Human Rights Abuses in 20th Century reviews

    Human Rights Abuses in 20th Century Book Reviews

    Jeremy Reid

    Discover the background and details of human rights abuses around the world in the 20th Century. The struggle for equality and freedom are universal to peoples from all over the wo...

  • The Right of American Slavery reviews

    The Right of American Slavery Book Reviews

    True Worthy Hoit

    This book is a proslavery argument published a year before Civil War.

  • The American Revolution reviews

    The American Revolution Book Reviews

    John Fiske

    The 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...

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations reviews

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book Reviews

    Adam Smith

    He 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...

  • Across the Plains to California in 1852 reviews

    Across the Plains to California in 1852 Book Reviews

    Lodisa Frizell

    This simple narrative journal was written at Cañon Creek in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, in the middle of December, 1852, by Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husba...

  • Industrial Revolution reviews

    Industrial Revolution Book Reviews

    Alli DeMoss

    Industrial Revolution U.S. History Project Byron Nelson High School Science/Health Technical Creative Writing

  • United States History reviews

    United States History Book Reviews

    Marlene Bailey, Denise Gallemore, Whitney Holdwick, Karyn Hutchinson, Denise Knapp & Sara Smith

    Fifth grade students in Michigan begin their study of American history with American Indian peoples before the arrival of European explorers and conclude with the adoption of the B...

  • The Underground Railroad reviews

    The Underground Railroad Book Reviews

    William Still

    In looking back now over these strange and eventful Providences, in the light of the wonderful changes wrought by Emancipation, I am more and more constrained to believe that the r...

  • Eisenhower reviews

    Eisenhower Book Reviews

    Scott Harder

    This book examines the Presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.  The reader will be exposed to the Eisenhower campaign strategy both before and after the Rep...

  • When the Smoke Clears reviews

    When the Smoke Clears Book Reviews

    Tom Rizzo

    Much of the legend and the lore of the Old West involve gunslingers and gunfights. Most of the people who populated the new American frontier in the 19th century owned guns and use...

  • Bill of Rights reviews

    Bill of Rights Book Reviews

    Emily Terry & Blanca Medrano

    Fun and interactive book over the Bill of Rights!

  • The Federalist reviews

    The Federalist Book Reviews

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay

    The 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 ...

  • Hidden Figures Teaching Guide reviews

    Hidden Figures Teaching Guide Book Reviews

    Margot Lee Shetterly & Kim Racon

    We know that teachers are always looking for new and inspiring books to assign to their students. To help you decide if Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures is right for your clas...

  • Chumash reviews

    Chumash Book Reviews

    Ivan Bradley

    This eBook on the Chumash people of the central coast of California was created as a means to teach the use of Apple’s iBooks Author 2.0 and also to further educate students about ...

  • Lectures on Modern history reviews

    Lectures on Modern history Book Reviews

    Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

    Sir John Emerich Edward DalbergActon, known as Lord Acton, was an English historian and master of the principal foreign languages. During his time, he didn’t publish any book, but ...

  • The Indian Question reviews

    The Indian Question Book Reviews

    Francis Amasa Walker

    Francis Amasa Walker was an important American statesman and, during the Civil War, Union Army officer. This is his consideration of the problem of US federal relations with Native...

  • The Constitution reviews

    The Constitution Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Comentarios a la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos de America reviews

    Comentarios a la Constitucion de los Estados Unidos de America Book Reviews

    James Kent & J. Cárlos Mexia

    Obra escrita por el canciller de Nueva York, James Kent, y llevada al español por Calos Mexía. Describe la historia de la Unión Americana, los Poderes Legislativo, Ejecutivo y Judi...

  • The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War reviews

    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...

  • American History in 50 Events reviews

    American History in 50 Events Book Reviews

    Henry Freeman

    American 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...

  • From Manassas to Appomattox reviews

    From Manassas to Appomattox Book Reviews

    James Longstreet

    James Longstreet, one of the foremost Generals in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, here recounts his personal war experiences and provides extensive historical a...

  • History of the United States, Volume 1 reviews

    History of the United States, Volume 1 Book Reviews

    Elisha Benjamin Andrews

    The 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...

  • The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King reviews

    The Man Who Had a Dream - Martin Luther King Book Reviews

    Alan Concannon

    This 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...

  • History of the United States reviews

    History of the United States Book Reviews

    Mary Ritter Beard

    As things now stand, the course of instruction in American histoiy in our public schools embraces three distinct treatments of the subject. Three separate books are used. First, th...

  • Gettysburg Address reviews

    Gettysburg Address Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    The 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...

  • The English Church in the Eighteenth Century reviews

    The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Book Reviews

    Charles John Abbey

    This is a history book. This is a history of the English church in the 18th century when Anglicanism started expanding beyond the borders of England thanks to the political and eco...

  • A Matter of Conscience reviews

    A Matter of Conscience Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    This 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...

  • World War I reviews

    World War I Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • Language of Flowers reviews

    Language of Flowers Book Reviews

    Kate Greenaway

    Charming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19thcentury illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents tulip = fame; blue v...

  • The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government reviews

    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Book Reviews

    Jefferson Davis

    This 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...

  • Declaration of Independence of the United States of America reviews

    Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Book Reviews

    United States

    It is a history book. The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen Americ...

  • The Emancipation Proclamation reviews

    The Emancipation Proclamation Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln

    Emancipation 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...

  • The Dust Bowl reviews

    The Dust Bowl Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee reviews

    The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee Book Reviews

    John K. Shellenberger

    When Opdycke’s brigade, the last to withdraw, came up to the position occupied by Conrad and Lane, Wagner rode forward and ordered Opdycke into line with them. Colonel Opdycke stre...

  • Ashes of Soldiers reviews

    Ashes of Soldiers Book Reviews

    Walt Whitman

    “The War of Attempted Secession has, of course, been the distinguishing event of my time,” wrote Walt Whitman after the struggle was over. “I commenced at the close of 1862, and co...

  • Hospital Sketches reviews

    Hospital Sketches Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken ""from letters hastily written in t...

  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln reviews

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln Book Reviews

    Abraham Lincoln & Arthur Brooks Lapsley

    This volume contains the works of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln from October 1863 until April 1865, including his last written words on April 14. This is the last of seven volumes...

  • Symbols of the United States reviews

    Symbols of the United States Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 reviews

    History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Book Reviews

    George Washington Williams

    Slavery 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...

  • A History of the Republican Party reviews

    A History of the Republican Party Book Reviews

    George Washington Platt

    George Washington Platt’s 1904 history explores the development of the Republican Party, from the formative causes of its founding to Theodore Roosevelt’s first term as president.

  • The Civil War Centennial Handbook reviews

    The Civil War Centennial Handbook Book Reviews

    William H. Price

    This history of the American Civil War includes many photographs, color reproductions of Union and Confederate uniforms, and a reference table of battles.

  • The Industrial Revolution in the United States reviews

    The Industrial Revolution in the United States Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 Trial of Theodore Parker reviews

    The Trial of Theodore Parker Book Reviews

    Theodore Parker

    There was widespread disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which enlisted the powers of the national government to return escaped slaves to their masters. Blacks and whit...

  • The History of England, Volume I reviews

    The History of England, Volume I Book Reviews

    David Hume

    The 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...

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, reviews

    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Book Reviews

    Olaudah Equiano

    Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership reveals many aspects of...

  • The Disfranchisement of the Negro reviews

    The Disfranchisement of the Negro Book Reviews

    John L. Love

    The 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...

  • Weather Forecasting reviews

    Weather Forecasting Book Reviews

    Library of Congress

    This 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 ...

  • On the Plains with General Custer reviews

    On the Plains with General Custer Book Reviews

    Elizabeth B. Custer

    Perhaps 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...

  • Black History reviews

    Black History Book Reviews

    Hannah Doyle

    Written by Hannah Doyle, a fifthgrader at Willow Wind Community Learning Center in Ashland Oregon, Black History is a 5 page "expert study project" that discusses the his...

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