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Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
Author
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story of love and murder. Based on a true tale from the early 1900s, this work of historical fiction gives life to murderer William Kleeman, a handsome young farmer from southwestern Minnesota who courts the beautiful Maud Petri. After a quick engagement and marriage, the couple produce four children and are joined by boarder Mary Snelling, who teaches at the country school across the road. This addictive story winds through many twists before...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
26) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history but never learned
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic anti-textbook-which includes a new preface by Davis-he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In "American Gun", the deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a SEAL. Chris Kyle uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted present and tracing its prehistory, geology, and cultural and literary histories--is as vast as its subject. The facinating cast of characters includes the French and Spanish explorers de Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and the incomparable La Salle; Gerorge Washington fighting his first battle in an effort to...
Author
Series
Publisher
West 44 Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (193 pages)
Language
English
Description
Gabi is furious about her parents divorcing and moving her away from her hometown, her friends, and her school. But on the day she moves away, a shooter opens fire on Gabi's old school, killing her American History classmates. She knows she should have been in that classroom. Now Gabi has to navigate a new school and new social circles, while dealing with a looming dark cloud of grief, survivor's guilt, and fear. She meets impulsive troublemaker Lennon,...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 398 pages)
Language
English
Description
Once seen as threats to mainstream society, Irish Americans have become an integral part of the American story. More than 40 million Americans claim Irish descent, and the culture and traditions of Ireland and Irish Americans have left an indelible mark on U.S. society. Timothy J. Meagher fuses an overview of Irish American history with an analysis of historians' debates, an annotated bibliography, a chronology of critical events, and a glossary discussing...
40) Massacre in Minnesota: the Dakota War of 1862, the most violent ethnic conflict in American history
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A detailed analysis of the origins, events, and aftermath of the Minnesota-Dakota War of 1862"--
"Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson's account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War-and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity. "--
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