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A forgotten campaign. A fabricated legend. A land that refuses to forget. The Torture Tree uncovers the true story of the 1779 Sullivan-Clinton Expedition—America’s largest military assault against Indigenous people—and the century of mythmaking that followed. In the summer of 1779, General George Washington ordered the “total destruction” of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) towns across New York. More than forty communities were burned. Thousands of acres of crops were destroyed. Families fled into a brutal winter that claimed countless lives.

THE 'FOREMOST EGYPTOLOGIST OF HIS TIME', TOBY WILKINSON, UNVEILS THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF THE NUBIANS The Nubians created the largest African state ever to exist, stretching for more than 1500 miles, north to south. Nubian civilisation began before the pharaohs ruled in Egypt, and it was still there...

I Fascisme i USA dykker lektor i historie Regin Schmidt ned i den særlige fascisme, der har udviklet sig i USA siden 1920'erne med stiftelsen af organisationer som det andet KKK og American Legion. Det fortsatte op gennem 1930'erne med nazistiske grupperinger som German-American Bund, inden...

Theodore Roosevelt’s Citizenship in a Republic—often remembered for its famous “Man in the Arena” passage—is a stirring call to courage, responsibility, and active participation in public life. Delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910, Roosevelt challenges listeners to reject...

Join crusading journalist Nellie Bly on her captivating 1885 journey to Mexico! When Bly’s Pittsburgh Dispatch exposé of the plight of female workers drew ire from factory owners, she was assigned to “feminine” subjects. Dreading that purgatory, scrappy 21-year-old Bly went south of the...

A lively, accessible introduction to the asymmetrical relationship between the United States and Mexico, one of the most formative international relationships in geopolitics today. The border between the US and Mexico is the world’s longest between a wealthy industrialized nation and a part of...

Through speeches, debates, and wartime leadership, Lincoln invoked the Declaration of Independence to end slavery, heal a fractured Union, and redefine the nation’s purpose. As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration's immortal words, Joshua Claybourn reflects on their enduring power...

Out of Difficulty: Hope Lives On is a work of narrative nonfiction that traces the connected journeys of two American families shaped by their founding patriarchs, George Simmons and Elijah Sharkey. Born into the antebellum South, these African American men came of age in a nation struggling to define itself—and their families carried that unfinished struggle forward across generations. Set against the backdrop of war, Reconstruction, violence, migration, betrayal, and tragedy, the Simmons and Sharkey families built legacies rooted in land, kinship, faith, and perseverance.

BED-STUY: Where It Started is a raw, heartfelt look at growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, told through the eyes of Keeda. From family, block life, childhood games, school days, street pressure, style, survival, and change, this book captures the neighborhood with honesty, love, and memory. It is not just a story about where Keeda came from. It is a tribute to the place that shaped him.

Shadows in Paradise: The Dark History of the CNMI Guest Worker Program explores one of the most overlooked chapters of modern American history. For decades, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, operated a labor system that brought tens of thousands of foreign workers from countries such as the Philippines, China, Bangladesh, and others to build its economy.

South Carolina is a place where centuries of history meet breathtaking natural beauty. From the historic streets of Charleston and the sandy shores of Myrtle Beach to the peaceful forests of Congaree National Park and the scenic peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Palmetto State offers unforgettable experiences for every traveler.

Los héroes mexicanos tienen una costumbre: durar poco. Porfirio Díaz lleva apenas unas horas en el exilio, cuando ya hay cuatro hombres maquinando cómo tomar su lugar. Por un lado, Francisco I. Madero entra a la capital entre vítores y papelitos de colores, convencido de que el pueblo ha despertado y que la historia, por fin, ha aprendido de sí misma.

A timeless historical narrative for listeners who love western history, pioneer stories, and classic Americana. A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-Team Method. In the spring of 1857, William Audley Maxwell joined a wagon train bound for California, embarking on a four-month journey across nearly 2,000 miles of untamed wilderness. More than a memoir, Crossing the Plains is a vivid firsthand account of life on the Overland Trail during the final years of America's great westward migration.

It is time to focus on what the United States has gotten right in the pursuit of liberty in the last 250 years since the nation’s founding. Two beliefs undergird America’s experiment in liberty, and they are articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The book “We Hold These Truths”...

At the heart of The America Codes (Phase One : Apollo to Artemis) are two extraordinary young twins whose lives are swept into a mystery hidden in plain sight inside the Declaration of Independence. What begins with lucid dreams, strange clues, and an irresistible curiosity soon becomes a...

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life. Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists. In his body of work...

MAIS UM HOLOCAUSTO BRASILEIRO: UMA PRAGA MILENAR DE QUE O BRASIL CONSERVA RESÍDUOS ASSUSTADORES O medo envolve esta praga a partir do nome: lepra. Para vencê-lo, foi necessário vencer a palavra, substituindo-a por "hanseníase" no Brasil a partir dos anos...

Um prostíbulo nos arredores de São Paulo tornou-se o centro de execuções do regime militar no governo Geisel, incorporando torturas com fogo e injeções letais...

Agosto de 1942: o Brasil declara guerra ao Eixo. O estopim: o ataque a vários navios mercantes e de passageiros brasileiros no litoral do Nordeste por uma ofensiva naval nazista, provocando a morte de centenas de inocentes. Por que os nazistas afundaram navios desarmados de um país...

A crucial, clear-eyed assessment of what connects the two most influential moments of political violence in recent American history, and where we go from here This dramatic, revealing book offers an insider account of the planning and aftermath of the racist riot in Charlottesville on August 12...