Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies.
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story.
From the beginnings of colonial settlement in Illinois Country, the region was characterized by self-determination and collaboration that did not always align with imperial plans.
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy.
Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man.
Americans are not particularly shy about letting politicians know what's on their minds, and, in Harry Truman, they believed that they had a president they could level with.
When the Atlantic seaboard was winning its Revolution against England, and the new West, undecided which camp to join, hung back, one mane stood out among the scattered handful of pioneers who were opening the great road to the plainsa stirring blend of biography, Americana, and history restoring in complete, human, authentic detail one of the most thrilling stories in our American past.
';The last train for the north leaves here tomorrow morning, Our soldiers are scattered along the railroad as hundred miles north, and as soon as that train passes, the work of destruction will commence.
At the outbreak of war, twenty-year-old Francis Adams Donaldson enlisted in the 1st California Regiment (later known as the 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers) of the famous Philadelphia Brigade of the II Corps, Army of the Potomac.
In a series of essays, Runyon, reflects on the frank, often outrageous opinions of his ';old man,' who knows a thing or two about just about everythingand even if he doesn't, he'll tell you anyway.
Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend:';I rejoice that you have learnt to write,for as this is done with a goosequill, you know the value of a goose.
';Custer had been usually effective as an Indian fighter for several years He was adept in bringing off surprise attacks that crushed and paralyzed resistance.
This history shines a light on America's "e;first civil war"e;: the bloody conflict in Kansas Territory between abolitionists and proslavery extremists.
In the tradition of the great regimental histories of the past, this book records the fire which seared the ranks of the Twenty-Four Michigan Regiment of the legendary ';Iron Brigade.
';Crook always maintained that, since his command occupied the field after the battle, he was not defeated at the Rosebud, and that if the battle had gone according to his orders, it would have resulted in a real triumph for his men.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: ';an unique and authoritative book, The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg' will arouse great interest among military men throughout the country.
No other general in American history has attracted the attention and adoration accorded to Robert Edward Lee, the peerless chieftain of the Confederacy.
The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero.
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890: The Long War for the Northern Plains is the fourth volume of a five-volume series that seeks to tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it.
Details the overseas diplomatic and intelligence contest between Union and Confederate governmentsDocuments the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agentsExplores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the UnionThe American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern United States.
*; Concise introduction to the Gettysburg campaign*; Facts about all aspects of the battle and its participants*; Revised and expanded for the 150th anniversary of the battleJust some of the fascinating topics covered:*; What led to the battle and why it was fought at Gettysburg*; Who led the troops on both sides of the field*; What average soldiers experienced, in their own words*; Heroic actions and calamitous mistakes in judgment*; What weapons were used and how effective they were*; What happened to local civilians during and after the fight
A collection of photographs documenting a diverse array of lifestyles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New York by amateur photographer Henry K.
Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vital roles in battles and campaigns of previous generations.
