Kategoria BISAC: History >> North American

In the beginning was Jamestown.... This is the wondrous story of the genesis of America told through this cradle to the grave account of the life of one man. Richard Pace was a simple London carpenter who became an Ancient Planter - a name given to the earliest colonial settlers. It was his timely warning of an impending attack that saved the first permanent settlement in Virginia from annihilation. Richard's heroic act had profound consequences:

• Survival provided a breathing space that would eventually bring about a total victory over the indigenous tribes...

A brief descrption of Morning Star and Wheeler Ranches in Sonoma County, California during the late sixties-early seventies, including the two Wheeler Ranch manifestos.

During the late sixties-early seventies, two open-door communal ranches opened their gates in Sonoma County, California. Nothing quite like them had ever existed before, and people came from all over the country to live there. Together, they allowed city folks and others to rediscover and practice a tribal, neo-primitive way of life that consumed less energy and offered more freedom than our regulated,...

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the...

Drawing on the...

Drawing on the...

• This is the second book in Laxer's North American trilogy.
• James Laxer is an award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including the #1 national bestseller Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812
• Highly readable with accessible language.
• This is one of the few books that talks about key North American history and how it has shaped the continent and the global order even into the present day
• Focusing on three leaders -- Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and John A. Macdonald -- the book showcases how similar these men are in circumstance...

This is the only modern, published account of the Soldier’s Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania.  A bureaucrat of the system wrote a so-called history in 1873 but it is very self-serving and devoid of any critical analysis. Also included, a bonus feature on the Ill-Fated Gettsyburg Orphanage.

      The Soldier’s Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania, 1864- 1889 were unique to the history of the nation.  They were the first historical example of a government attempting to nurture and educate the children of soldiers killed in war. During the 25...