History : North American

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Str......

The Native American Book of Knowledge The Circle of Life is an American Indian symbol for the Four Directions. The four colors represent the four stages of l......

Heroes of the Santa Fe Trail is the product of decades of primary research by a writer who has lived all of his life in the shadow the Trail's legacy....

Mary's Master provides observations and interpretations of the English colonization of the area presently known as southern New England. This is a critical r......

The work discusses international politics as it unfolded in history. The earliest exploration expeditions of North America have been elucidated. It chronicle......

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The indigenous populations of North America created impressive societies, engaged in trade, and had varied economic, social, and religious cultures. Over the......

From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League BaseballAfter peaking at 27 percent of all major leag......

Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition......

Historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines religious conversions in the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among ......

The dramatic story of the rescue of two men from a cruise ship on Lake Superior as it drifts out to sea in hurricane-force winds. Author: Skelton, Joan Publ......

The fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Fran......

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a la......

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, to visit President Lincoln in the Whi......

The second of two volumes on the history of Mexico, originally published in 1843. It begins with ethnographic descriptions of ancient Mexicans such as the Az......

One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What h......

•Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Easten......

We know--and love--the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But our first government was a disaster......

-- Merri Rosenberg, Education Update Author: McCaughey, Robert Publisher: Columbia University Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: Stand, Columbia: A......

A sweeping history of America as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with eighty black-and-white photograp......