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Include books by the same authorThe Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens · 544 pages
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
Fred Anderson · 306 pages
The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War —the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War—remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through the vast conflict that, betw
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick · 461 pages
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Alan Taylor · 620 pages
In this book, the author, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian tells the story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution. Soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians fought in a northern borderland to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Buddy Levy · 429 pages
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. "I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold." --Hernan CortesIt was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civili
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · 702 pages
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · 660 pages
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land
The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 (A History of US, Book One)
Joy Hakim · 177 pages
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Putnam Demos · 336 pages
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · 512 pages
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
James Wilson · 466 pages
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Andres Resendez · 314 pages
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Giles Milton · 376 pages
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, who caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1587, Manteo was returned to his homela
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
Colin G. Calloway · 219 pages
In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent...changed hands at the scratch of a pen." As Colin Calloway reveals in this superb history, the Treaty set in motion a cascade of une
The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000
John Tutino · 512 pages
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Lee Miller · 367 pages
The author searches for the truth about the four-hundred-year-old disappearance of England's first colony in North America and the fate of its settlers.
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Tony Horwitz · 464 pages
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, foll
The Conquest of America
Tzvetan Todorov · 274 pages
Description. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de las Casas · 167 pages
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
James Donovan · 552 pages