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106 public-domain history - american books, summarised. Page 3 of 3.
History of Atchison County, Kansas
Sheffield Ingalls
A frontier landscape unfolds into an organized, industrious county through six decades of political strife, pioneer endurance, and civic transformation along the banks of the Missouri River.
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Samuel Adams Drake
Rough-hewn cliffs, deserted colonial forts, and wind-scoured island ledges frame a journey down the Atlantic margin where early European ambition met the uncompromising granite of the American wilderness.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Annie Lash Jester
Settlers stepping ashore in seventeenth-century Virginia encountered a wilderness that demanded complete domestic reconstruction, transforming English traditions into a distinct, rugged plantation society.
Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates: 1772
Great Britain. Board of Trade
A clash of political will and economic ambition on the eve of the American Revolution, this 1772 imperial report captures the British government's desperate struggle to contain colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains.
History of the United States
Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
A sweeping, structural reexamination of the American experiment, this text abandons superficial heroics to trace the deep economic drives, institutional conflicts, and social movements shaping a continent.
The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I): Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar
John Smith
A single hand at the helm transforms raw, uncharted wilderness into a precarious new world through sheer force of will, grit, and tireless obsession.
The Jew and American Ideals
John Spargo
When a sudden wave of conspiracy theories threatens to fracture a nation's social fabric, defending a targeted minority becomes the ultimate test of a republic's core values.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
Francis Parkman
Bound for the high plains and Rocky Mountains in 1846, a young Bostonian braves disease, wilderness, and erratic companions to record the vanishing wilderness of the American West.
History of the World War
March, Francis A., Jr.
Millions of young men died across Europe to teach militaristic nations that humanity will no longer tolerate the exploitation of free peoples.
North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota
A land of sweeping horizons, ancient river valleys, and harsh winters comes vividly to life in this Depression-era portrait of the Northern Prairie State.