A history of US
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A history of US volume 1
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Thousands of years ago - way before Christopher Columbus set sail - wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The First Americans is a fascinating re-creation of pre-Columbian Native American life, and it's an adventure of a lifetime! Hunt seals with Inuit; harvest corn on a cliff-top mesa; hunt the mighty buffalo; and set sail with...
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A history of US volume 2
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Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
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A history of US volume 3
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How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nations? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle for the freedom of the press. Or maybe the French and Indian War did it, when colonists were called "Americans" for the first time by the English, and the great English army proved itself no so formidable after all. But for sure when King George III started levying some...
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A history of US volume 4
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Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation, tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the new country faced. Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory (bought from France at a mere four cents an acre!), Lewis and Clark's daring expedition through the wilderness, the War of 1812 a.k.a. "Revolutionary War, Part II", Tecumseh's effort to form an Indian confederacy, the...
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A history of US volume 5
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Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folks from mountain men and railroad builders to whalers and farmers, as they pushed forward into the open frontier, and all their hopes and fears are captured in Liberty for All? In addition...
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A history of US volume 6
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Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences.
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A history of US volume 7
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A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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A history of US volume 8
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Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.
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A history of US volume 10
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Discusses the postwar history of the United States as a world power and a nation in change and turmoil, including the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.