North America category: 699 books
Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
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 the moon, hear Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, join with Harry S. Truman on the A-bomb...
The Dominion of War
Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and...
Atlas of a Lost World
Travels in Ice Age America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.
In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions...
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
Borderland Narratives
Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America. It extends the concept to regions not typically seen as borderlands and demonstrates how...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In 1783, just months after the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, General George Washington was compelled to convince his officers not to undertake a military coup of the Congress of Confederation. Had the planned mutinous coup of the Newburgh Conspiracy gone forward, the American...
Who Discovered America?
The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?
The iconoclastic historian’s...
by Elisha Kent Kane
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
In May, 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a "North-West Passage," or water-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the north of the American Continent. No intelligence was received from him after...
by Bart Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
1492. Christopher Columbus is credited for finding America.
1001. Leif Erikson, discovered Vinland (America).
This illustrated, investigative book is full of interesting historical facts and information about both legendary explorers, Columbus and Erikson, and their explorations of...
by Robert Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
America: A History is a history of North and South America until the late 19th century. It was published in 1882.
NAFTA at 20
The North American Free Trade Agreement's Achievements and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was bold and controversial from the start. When first conceived, it was far from obvious that it would be possible given the circumstances of the times. Drawing from a December 2013 Hoover Institution conference on "NAFTA at 20," this book...
North American Odyssey
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. Part I explores the settling...