496円 Have you ever heard of the Battle of Osan, or even of the Korean War that it was a part of? This war has been called America’s “Forgotten War” because not a lot of people talk about it. It was not global, like World War Two had been, and it was not as controversial as the Vietnam War. Although i...

3,715円 This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival researc...

800円 The Battle of Chickamauga was a bloody disaster for both sides and a shaky victory for the South. By comparison, its aftermath, the Battle of Chattanooga, was one of the most picturesque battles of the Civil War and a glorious victory for the North. It was this third and decisive victory for the ...

150円 There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. This walking tour of Fredericksburg, Virginia from walkthetown.com is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural...

9,285円 Whether they prefer blockbusters, historical dramas, or documentaries, people learn much of what they know about history from the movies. In American History Goes to the Movies, W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz shows how popular representations of historic events shape the way audiences understand the histor...

1,000円 A.P Beach's love of Lake Champlain and his desire to increase people's knowledge and understanding of its history and culture inspired him to write Lake Champlain: As Centuries Pass in 1959. A.P. Beach was a man of vision and energyーand he had a passion for Lake Champlain. Like anyone with a ...

161円 The author's biography is included in this version. Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer is one of the nonfiction best sellers in 1920. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America. He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of inte...

9,616円 Taking Back the Academy! is not only an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s, but also an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change. Written against the current political wave that views liberal academics as treasonous and unpatriotic, these au...

1,600円 You hear the word "slave," and it conjures pictures of Black people in chains. Reduced to the condition of chattel, human property, while laboring for their "masters." This mis-representation is responsible for the continuing anger in Black people, and the continued frustration in White people, a...

112円 Spies! Women in the Civil War tells the thrilling stories of women who served as spies for the North and for the South--Harriet Tubman led Union troops on raids up the Combahee River in South Carolina; Belle Boyd provided information to Confederate generals; Elizabeth Van Lew organized a spy ring...

2,801円 A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic ente...

3,522円 Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illu...