1,691円 The story of a pivotal president who watched over our westward expansion and solidified the dream of Jacksonian democracy James K. Polk was a shrewd and decisive commander in chief, the youngest president elected to guide the still-young nation, who served as Speaker of the House and governor of ...

164円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index Unitarianism in America A History of Its Origin and Development CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION.--ENGLISH SOURCES OF AMERICAN UNITARIANISM II. THE LIBERAL SIDE OF PURITANISM III. THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY IN THE CHURCHES IV. THE SILENT...

3,310円 In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those yearsーGrant's Peace Policy, the re...

3,973円 As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops s...

164円 Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move th...

3,443円 A look at the process of entering America a hundred years agoーfrom both an institutional and a human perspective. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis...

1,772円 As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones's graveーand, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792ーwas forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his buria...

2,912円 A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling...

2,102円 The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under t...

369円 Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, is an American icon. To many, he is a symbol of values, sacrifice and determination. Modern notions of nationalism, liberty, and constitution all owe their debt to Lincoln, as doe...

1,243円 A true, never-before-told storyーdiscovered in a secret Vatican archiveーof sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the ...

1,691円 A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and mi...