The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Paperback - Andrew Delbanco

DescriptionWinner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardA New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018 "Excellent......

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the American RevolutionIn an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth refle...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of the American Revolution In an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is...

Reducere. Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secret...

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writin...

Reducere. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Undergrou...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

This is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams ima...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. Based on Historical Events...How far would America go to stop the communists?French Indochina, 1945 - 1951. After several victories, the French Arm...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

Reducere. Thomas B. Allen's follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells ...

Reducere. The Seminole Struggle: A History of America's Longest Indian War, Hardcover

Reducere. Macavity Award"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." --Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning au...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Clebur...

Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Ro...

DescriptionDavid Poyer is a Naval Academy graduate, retired naval officer, and Distinguished Visiting Writer at USNA. His novels have been required...

DescriptionThe Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the five works that chronicle the mil-itary campaigns of Julius Caesar. Together...

Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-member...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mexican Revolution, then keep reading...The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment of the ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mexican Revolution, then keep reading...The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment of the ...

DescriptionAs the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not ...

Reducere. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, Paperback

This is a beautiful study of the rich history of our food, its fads and its fashions to be combined with a practical cookbook of over xxx recipes f...

Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

*Includes pictures *Includes stories about the fugitive slave law and accounts about it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further r...

Leonard Rubenstein-a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities around the world-offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers hea...

Reducere. Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

Reducere. An introduction to the history of the Civil War for kids ages 6 to 9 The United States was not always united. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina ...

Reducere. Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the...

DescriptionDo you want to learn how the Great War began, was fought and ultimately won by the Allied Forces Read about the 50 most important events...

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, stud...