Curtis Edward S. Indian life and indian lore. Indian days of the long ago

Campbell B. Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events

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Facts on File, 2008. - 461 Pages. Disasters, accidents, and crises have profoundly shaped American history - from the "starving time" at Jamestown, the smallpox epidemic during the Revolutionary War, and the "year without a summer" in 1816 to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the San Francisco earthquake, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Not only have these catastrophic events upended lives and wreaked untold havoc, they hav...

Chernow R. Washington: A Life

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The Penguin Press, 2010. - 904 pages. From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian...

Danver Steven L. (Edited). Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia (ENG)

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ABC-CLIO, 2010 - 1274 p. ISBN: 1598842218 America has a long history of rebellions extending back before 1776. Revolts have taken place because of economic hard times, the denial of civil rights, racism, sexism, and classism. Studying the reasons for and results of these uprisings provides a window into the life of the American body politic—and what moves the American people to action. Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in Ameri...

Drimmer F. Captured By The Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870

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Dover Publications, 1985. - 384 p. ISBN: 0486249018 Поразительные воспоминания свидетелей пленения белых людей индейцами, которые сумели выжили и рассказать об этом правду. Пятнадцать истинных событий, в которых было все: страдания и пытки, кровавая резня и неустанное преследование, удивительное спасение и принятие в индийские племена. Очаровательный исторический отчет в котором нашли свое отображение индейская культура и пограничная жизнь. Con...

Ferrell Robert H. Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I

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University of Missouri, 2005 - 152 p. ISBN10: 0826215947 ISBN13: 9780826215949 (eng) During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public’s attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some five hundred men of the Seventy-seventh Division, the so-called battalion was entrapped on the side of a ravine in the Argonne Forest by German forces from October 2 to 7, 1918. The men’s courage under si...

Johnson Michael. North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

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Osprey Publishing, 2011 - 48 p. ISBN10: 1849084599 ISBN13: 9781849084598 (eng) The Great Lakes were the main arena for the fur trade in colonial North America, which drew European explorers and trappers deep into the northern USA and Canada from the 17th century onwards. The desire to control the supply of this luxury item sparked wars between Britain and France, as well as conflicts between rival tribes and the newly formed United States of Ame...

Korda M. Ulysses S. Grant The Unlikely Hero

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Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004. - 176 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0060590157. ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780060590154. Product Description: In this concise, vivid, and brilliantly readable biography, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda sheds new light on the life of Ulysses S. Grant -- a man who is consistently ranked as one of the greatest American generals and as one of our weaker presidents. The son of a tanner in Ohio, soft-spoken, taciturn, given to d...

Norton M.B., Sheriff C., Blight D.W. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. Volume I

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Wadsworth, 2011. - 496 pages. The Brief Edition of "A People and a Nation" offers a succinct and spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past.

Smith R. American Civil War: Union Army

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London: Brassey's, 1998. - 146 p. A detailed look at the uniforms and equipment of the regular army and the militai regiments. Features the American Indian Cavalry units. More than 150 photographs.

Sonneborn Liz. Chronology of American Indian History

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Хронология истории американских индейцев. Updated Edition. 2007. Язык английский. According to oral tradition, the Navajo (Dineh) came into being by emerging through three worlds—the Black World, the Blue-Green World, and the Yellow World—before finally reaching the Glittering World, the one they still inhabit in the American Southwest. This story, told from generation to generation for hundreds of years, is believed by some scholars to confir...