History of the Americas

On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away.

While Richard M.

Humor and polemics from one of Americas most quotable pundits.

There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F.

Gathering Irving's major historical and biographical writings, this collection reveals the breadth of an author often remembered chiefly for fiction.

Using iconic images and many not so well-known illustrations, Nostalgic Florida is apictorial history of all that has come to represent Florida in print media.

Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob ';Frogfoot' Weller and his wife Margaret.

Floridas Coast-to-Coast Trail Guide is a guidebook designed specifically for the 250-mile dedicated bicycle/pedestrian trail that provides an uninterrupted cross-Florida trail from Titusville to St.

Cathedrals of War tells the story ofFlorida's coastal fortifications from Amelia Island on the Florida/Georgia border, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, an atoll midway between Key West and Havana, Cuba and Pensacola on Florida's west coast.

A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army.

Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.

A timeless collection of pirate stories from Florida originally written in the late 1950s, this book includes stories of well-known and lesser known pirates and buccaneers and the treasure they left behind.

An Illustrated History of Palm Beach is a nostalgic journey through the history of the town of Palm Beach as told through the photographic collection of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle beckon curious beachcombers with miles of wave-swept Gulf coastline.

This engaging and colorful guidebook brings alive the many lighthouses of the Sunshine State.

A history of a very popular beach destination near Sarasota on the Gulf coast of Florida.

From the time the first humans reached the Florida peninsula more than 12,000 years ago through today's complex and diverse state, this timeline narrative sets Florida's fascinating history against the backdrop of world events.

The European explorers were the first to find the evidence of earlier civilizations who built monumental earthwork mounds, ceremonial complexes and cities in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.

Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangleall are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts.

Andre Norton is best known for her science fiction and fantasy novels.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

On December 25, 1776, the American Revolution seemed all but defeated just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been adopted.

A riveting look at the polarizing nature of the Beatles phenomenon, and how it transformed a generation, through the lens of a singular city in the center of America.

THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA'S GOLDEN CITYSAN FRANCISCO.

Hillary is up in the polls!

"e;This amusing collection of factoids entertains, but it's also an accessible look at the 43 men who have held our nation's highest office.

The incredible true story of a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever, beautifully told through the eyewitness accounts of those who knew him best.

This volume features eighty-five of Obama's most impactful speeches, spanning more than a decade from his time in the Senate to his final day in the presidency.

Offers evidence from Jesse Jamess secret encoded diaries Examines Jesse Jamess close ties with other notorious outlaws, such as Johnny Ringo, Jesse Evans, and Billy the Kid Shows how Jesse James was related, by blood or marriage, to powerful people in law enforcement and politics, including the elite families behind the Copperheads and the Knights of the Golden Circle organizations Jesse James and many other Old West outlaws were much more than just wild cowboys.

Includes never-before-published material from LaVey, including transcripts from his never-released Hail Satan!

A gripping detailed recap of the wildly insane, oft-overlooked, extra-innings classic that turned the 2004 ALCS into the most memorable playoff series in modern history.

In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home.

Accomplishing the Impossible draws contemporary leadership lessons from the events and people that were central to the beginning of the American Revolution.

The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar of trapped Jews.

Jim Tracy's Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented.

We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions.

Most historians of the American presidency—walking in lockstep with today's hard-Left academic establishment—favor presidents who were big-government statists and globalists.

Progressives in Washington have big plans.

"e;What makes you think black people will vote for you?

The world was shocked when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis in 1968.

"e;Indian Boyhood,"e; presents the incredible adventurous childhood and youth which were a part of the free wilderness life of the first American - a life that is gone forever.

Dieses eBook: "Deutsche Thesen gegen den Papst und seine Dunkelmänner - Antikatholische Erzählungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential presidentGerald R.

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through Americas haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.

Durante la guerra por la independencia, en Salta y en Jujuy las mujeres tuvieron un protagonismo trascendental.

The urgent need to honor the 56 Signers of The Declaration of Independence came to Douglas MacKinnon, fittingly enough, on the 4th of July.

Original, Unconventional & Inconvenient is an analysis of the Donald J.

The story of Jimmy Kelly's Steak House, Nashvilles oldest fine restaurant, and the family who started itof stills, saloons, and speakeasies, and of a family who was tough and resourceful, who lost everything, and picked themselves up and started again.

Regarded as the turning point of the American Civil War, Gettysburg commemorates the three-day battle that took place in an "e;unimportant"e; Pennsylvania town over 150 years ago.