The Congress of the United States

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. "A cogent, timely warning about the fragility of American democracy." -- Kirkus Reviews What will a conservative Supreme Court do with its power? F...

Reducere. DescriptionThe life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran...

Reducere. The United States Constitution provides two methods for proposing amendments, one through the Congress and one through the States which has yet to ...

Reducere. Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the...

Reducere. Wisconsin was the perfect setting for the lumber industry: acres of white pine forests (acquired through treaties with American Indians) and rivers...

Reducere. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...

St. Elizabeths has been a mental health hospital in Washington, D.C., since 1852, when it was established by the United States Congress as the Gove...

Join Robin on her trip around the capital of the United States as she learns about history and government. Robin visits the Senate, White House, an...

Reducere. DescriptionTravel along with Lewis and Clark as they bravely lead the expedition into unexplored territory.Even before the first glorious ring of t...

Reducere. What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressi...

DescriptionThe most significant and dynamic struggles for power in the United States of America occur between presidents and the federal bureaucrac...

All you need to know about elections, politics, and government Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of government into tedious discours...

Reducere. Thomas Lansen, MD, FAANS, FACS, is a neurosurgeon who practiced in Westchester County, New York and New York City for over thirty years, specializi...

Reducere. The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Sec...

Reducere. A fully illustrated guide to the Masonic origins and present-day Masonic sites of Washington, D.C. - Provides a walking tour of the Masonic sites a...

Reducere. The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in ...

Reducere. On May 4, 1964, Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive product of the United States, and it remains the only spirit produced in this country ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom LewisIn Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. Alexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation's founding fathers and well-known historical figur...

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartlandA decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the...

The Secret History of the New World Order outlines the historical evolution of a secret organization which has the final goal of creating a planeta...

DescriptionInvestigative reporter Luke Rosiak is being hailed as "one of the smartest, most diligent reporters in Washington" (TUCKER CARLSON) and ...

Reducere. Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before beco...

"Whatever it takes" That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world an...

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, more than 250, 000 children left their homes and hopped freight trains crisscrossing the United States. They were look...

In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) adopted the Doi Moi (Renovation) policy at its sixth national congress, opening up a new chapter in t...

Reducere. The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big governmentPolitics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Dec...

Award NameAmbassador Book AwardsAward categoryPoetryWinner of the C. Hugh Holman Award A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, R...

Reducere. From the restrictive immigration laws that the United States Congress passed against Arabs in the early 20th century to the backlash against this c...

Reducere. DescriptionThe son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired by the words of Dr. Mart...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pul...

Reducere. What happens when Wizards and Muggles meet? You'll find out at Universal Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter Marianna Blackwater, Chief Witch...

DescriptionMother Nature has unleashed a fury that knows no bounds. Governments around the globe are entrenched in chaos as fundamentalist and home...

Reducere. Democracy Unchained draws upon lessons from Professor Richard Dien Winfield's 2018 campaign for US Congress in Georgia to show how the United State...

Reducere. A masterful political thriller thrusts veteran Washington fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks into a dark world of cyberattacks, a new era of foreig...

DescriptionBlackout poetry is created by removing or "blacking out" existing text to create a new piece of art. Make Blackout Poetry: Activist Edit...

Reducere. Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodr...

Reducere. Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. This thr...

Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser's Marshals and Generals, 1847-1955 covers the era 1847-1955 and is heavily illustrated with...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with a taut, white-knuckled thriller featuring master sniper Bob...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial. Criticism...

Reducere. The Fundamental Principle of Digits of a Number is a new mathematical idea for which the author received a copyright from the United States Library...

Reducere. In June of 2002, in his father's garage, Bruce W. Smalley discovered the map portion of the U.S. Department of the Interior's The Lewis and Clark T...

Description"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." --Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of t...

Reducere. Downloaded 19 May 2018. Table of contents and article numbers have been corrected. Now includes the new Article 117a titled 'Wrongful broadcast or ...

Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitari...

Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise--State of ...

The 2001 anthrax letter attacks in the United States killed five people and wounded dozens. They were widely blamed on extremist Muslims and their ...

DescriptionGet up to speed on the U.S. political system Confused by caucuses, primaries, and pollsters? Puzzled by the various parties and special ...

Reducere. On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150, 000 men, to meet an armed threat to the Un...

Reducere. Tucked among Alexander Hamilton's papers at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, is a rare collection of twenty-one samples of black silk lac...

Reducere. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethn...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the disasters and government reports about them *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further ...

Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including h...

In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan's nomination sped through...

Reducere. Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she devel...

Reducere. A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politician Shirley Chisholm. Even as a young ch...

Reducere. Recently some 300 exorcists flocked to Poland for a week-long congress to examine the current fashion for vampirism the world-over and the apparent...

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced...

Reducere. New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man str...

Reducere. A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera -- brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo -- speaks to every dreaming h...

Reducere. An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montana's three-term democratic senat...

Reducere. A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera -- brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo -- speaks to every dreaming h...

Reducere. A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera--brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo--speaks to every dreaming heart...

DescriptionWhen Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy a...

Reducere. When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother's last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran...