History of the Americas

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An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the 'Lusitania', the 'Mauretania' and the 'Titanic'.

A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.

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'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.

Abraham Lincoln writes here in the closing weeks of the American Civil War, with victory near, the Union preserved, and peace still uncertain.

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Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern StatisticsRobert Adrain arrived in America in 1798 as a wounded fugitive, shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Antrim, hunted by a former employer, fleeing a failed rebellion with his wife and infant daughter.

Why does America feel so reactive, exhausted, and divided?

James Madison is a compelling and humanized portrait of one of the most influential yet often overlooked Founding Fathers of the United States.

Civil wars are rarely started by moderates.

Thomas Jefferson was far more than the author of the Declaration of Independence—he was one of the key thinkers who shaped the American republic.

The Pony Express is etched into the global consciousness as the ultimate symbol of American frontier grit.

Mitten in der staubigen Wuste Kaliforniens liegt einer der surrealsten Orte der Welt: Die Salton Sea.

An einem regnerischen Freitagnachmittag im Mai 1889 brach uber die florierende Industriestadt Johnstown in Pennsylvania buchstablich die Holle herein.

In 1848, in a small cabin in Hydesville, New York, two young sisters named Maggie and Kate Fox claimed they could communicate with the spirit of a murdered peddler.

In the rugged wilderness between New Hampshire and Quebec, a cartographical error after the American Revolution left a small pocket of land entirely unaccounted for.

En la decada de 1570, en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (el territorio que a grandes rasgos corresponde a la actual Colombia), varios hombres pertenecientes a una generacion de mestizos surgida recientemente buscaron ocupar posiciones de poder en Santafe y Tunja, las dos poblaciones mas importantes de esa jurisdiccion administrativa.

In 1835, the states of Ohio and Michigan mobilized heavily armed militias, marched them to their shared border, and prepared to engage in a bloody civil war.

En nuestros dias resulta comun referirse a las raices geograficas, economicas o politicas como aquellos vinculos que permiten a un amplio grupo de personas sentirse parte de una sociedad.

In 1838, the geopolitical landscape of the Americas was permanently altered, not by a dispute over vast territories or profound ideological differences, but by the alleged looting of a French pastry shop in Mexico City.

Como lograron los derechos humanos convertirse en una fuerza fundamental para la democracia colombiana?

Before the United States was a unified nation, it was a fractured collection of isolated colonies.

For centuries, the story of Roanoke has been shrouded in myth and supernatural speculation.

In April 1865, the steamship SS Sultana exploded and sank on the Mississippi River, claiming the lives of nearly 1,200 people.

Wenn man an Erdbeben in Kalifornien denkt, fallt einem sofort die Zerstorung von San Francisco im Jahr 1906 ein.

For the vast majority of human history, geography was destiny.

They went from last place to dynasty in two years.

Im Jahr 1776 erschutterte ein politisches Manifest die Welt - die Erklarung der Unabhangigkeit.

Dieses Buch analysiert die historische Entwicklung des US-Dollars von einer nationalen Wahrung zur globalen Leitwahrung - und die wachsenden Spannungen, die seine Vorherrschaft heute in Frage stellen.

Im Marz 1911 fing eine Textilfabrik in Manhattan Feuer.

Abre una ventana intima y reveladora al universo cotidiano, familiar y empresarial del historiador y bibliografo Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta (1825-1894).

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For more than a century, the CIA and FBI have shaped world events from behind closed doors.

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Adam fell in love with the stars from the first moment he saw the Milky Way galaxy; he was six years old.

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In 1776, a group of colonies dared to challenge one of the most powerful empires in history.

The Brooklyn Bridge stands as a timeless monument to 19th-century ingenuity, a majestic web of steel wire suspending a road over the treacherous East River.

Im Jahr 1896 kam ein texanischer Eisenbahnmanager auf eine ebenso brillante wie wahnwitzige Idee.