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Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a...

Cowboy, conservationist, and curator Martin S. Garretson was widely considered one of the foremost experts on the natural history of the buffalo as well as one of the preeminent advocates for the preservation of the North American bison for several...

A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past.Was America really "stolen" from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874223408Author Lloyd KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771860819Author Michel BouchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka BooksWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879511439Author Jack H. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Abraham Lincoln would have made it to the White House. Yet the majority of New Yorkers never voted for him and were openly hostile to him and his politics. New Yorkers reacted to Lincoln's wartime...

With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that...

Filling a notable gap in North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections...

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade...

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542778Author Dr Ronald SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141557Author Tyler AnbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911469332Author George Franklin FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alan C Hood & CompanyPublisher Alan C Hood & Company

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from...

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win...

In March 1961, America's most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Charged...

The fundamental argument of this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American...

In this "first-rate work of historical research and storytelling" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and...

Newspaper accounts of the Navajos in recent years have prompted widespread interest in the tribe, its history, and its present condition. In this volume Ruth Underhill presents the absorbing and authoritative account of the Navajos, from the time of...

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489518309Author MR Robin WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715643723Author Peter PagnamentaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 681g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715643723Author Peter PagnamentaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 681g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781468009880Author Robert McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425257364Author Bill FawcettFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820474229Author Stan LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

The Sand Creek Battle, or Massacre, occurred on November 2930, 1864, a confrontation between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and Colorado volunteer soldiers. The affair was a tragic event in American history, and what occurred there continues to be hotly...

*Winner of the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction* *Selected as a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star* An insightful and perspective-shifting new book, from a celebrated journalist, about reclaiming identity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340591Author John MissallFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm)...

When 26 Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory.Emerging from their battered aircraft, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519501066Author A EsquemelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601787736Author Dustin BengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Reformation Heritage BooksPublisher Reformation Heritage Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591431220Author Paul SchragFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bear & CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company

In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern...

Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman-History Today Prize FinalistWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize"Meticulous environmental-historical detective work."-Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148360Author Carrie GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631820793Author J a RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 124mm * 8mm

Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryFinalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in History To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and...