History Comics: The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery

Reducere. In History Comics: The Roanoke Colony, Chris Schweizer separates fact from fiction and uncovers the secrets of one of America's most puzzling myste...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Roanoke Colony, Chris Schweizer investigates one of America's oldest and most intriguing mysteries. Over a hundred years bef...

Reducere. November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in...

Reducere. In 1587 John White was chosen by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead a new colony at Roanoke off the Atlantic coast. After bringing many men, women, and chi...

Reducere. In 1587, a group of colonists set sail from England, bound for Virginia, to establish the first English colony in the New World. They never made it...

Reducere. The Lost Colony of Roanoke is one of the most puzzling mysteries in America's history. In 1587, 115 colonists sailed to the new world, eager to bui...

Reducere. In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British ...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire, writer Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alex Graudins tell the true story of how a city rose up from one of...

Publisher: Roaring Brook PressAuthor(s): Falynn KochIllustration(s): full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 128Collection: History Com...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

DescriptionThis is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander...

DescriptionFrom one of America's smartest political writers comes a "captivating and comprehensive journey" (#1 New York Times bestselling author D...

Description"The best book about America's first modern secret service." --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepare...

Reducere. "The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their justice and the Sta...

Reducere. Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instr...

H. G. Wells's story of the first men on the moon, and what they find there... Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic stri...

Reducere. Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the...

Reducere. The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the wo...

With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism ...

Reducere. The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's ``forgotten war`` of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against ...

Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

Reducere. The Hotel Roanoke is as old as the city of Roanoke itself. It opened in 1882, when the city became the headquarters for the Norfolk & Western Railw...

Reducere. DescriptionThe island of Puerto Rico suffers from a stagnant economy, devastating unemployment, and severely limited political autonomy. In this bo...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Reducere. Roanoke, in the heart of southwestern Virginia, is one of the most haunted cities in the commonwealth. The Star City is brimming with eerie and une...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of training, combat, and segregation written by multiple members of the Tuskegee Airmen *Includes online reso...

Reducere. DescriptionThey murdered. They stole. And they did it all to excess. Unlike other bandits of early America, they didn't do it for the money--they d...

Provides a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone National Park's past into its present and explores its likely future. The book covers the first ...

Collected writings by one of the great thinkers in Welsh politics, exploring the viability of Welsh independence and including some of his most fam...

Reducere. About one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the "American Bottom." This ...

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstructio...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"By the mid-1850s a few businessm...

Reducere. Roanoke Shops has been an indispensable part of the Roanoke Valley and the "Magic City" for more than 125 years. Founded in 1881 as an independent ...

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U.S.Author(s): Alex CalvinIllustration(s): 192 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Di...

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Reducere. In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhe...

Reducere. Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation...

Reducere. His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non...

How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? ...

Reducere. There's been a string of Bigfoot sightings in Roanoke Ridge. Do they have something to do with the body in the woods? When Bigfoot researcher Profe...

DescriptionScotland is the largest producer of oil and is the second largest producer of gas in Europe. It has more than an eighty per cent share o...

Reducere. Step back in time and visit New Jersey during the Colonial period. Settled by the Dutch, Swedish, and English, New Jersey became known for its welc...

Reducere. The legend of the Lost Colony has been captivating imaginations for nearly a century. When they left Roanoke Island, where did they go? What is the...