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Did a scandalous love affair cost the British Empire the American Revolutionary War? In Snug As A Flea: Lust, Failure & Time in the American Revolutionary War, author Roger Schatz unveils one of the most intriguing and consequential sidebars of American history. General William Howe was a formidable British Commander-In-Chief tasked with crushing the American rebellion. But instead of delivering the final blow to George Washington's vulnerable Continental Army, Howe repeatedly stalled. Why?

Det här är ingen historiebok. Det är en bok med berättelser om människor vi bör minnas. Personer att referera till, citera och inspireras av. En annan historia består av femtioen fascinerande och underhållande berättelser om personer som inte fått sin rättmätiga plats i...

The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt reveals how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still...

Using the participants’ own words, Jim Weiss brings to life the ideas, battles, and adventures of the men and women who created a free nation. Be there in the courtroom when John Adams takes an unpopular stand for justice by defending British soldiers accused of perpetrating the Boston...

Estados Unidos celebra sus 250 años. En este libro los historiadores de Ad Absurdum narran la historia de Estados Unidos a través de su propia experiencia durante el rodaje de un improbable documental. Anécdotas, entrevistas, accidentes e incluso mucha investigación histórica te llevarán a conocer a los primeros pobladores del continente americano, a los conquistadores españoles que dejaron su huella y a los fundadores de una nueva nación que se convirtió en potencia mundial.

On Mount Washington, it's lack of preparation, not the mountain, that kills. The weather is highly changeable with wind gusts of 140 mph and -35 degree temps. Then there are the avalanches and icefalls. Combine this with inexperienced hikers in t-shirts and flip flops and things can get ugly...

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 COLORADO BOOK AWARD The Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state’s glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how “bad” things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without saying...

Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and advocate of the rights of women and Black Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late 19th century with his lectures on “freethought.”

Inflation rages. Crime is rising. Abortion rights take center stage at the Supreme Court. China poses an existential threat. Black lives are under attack. The president battles the press as he seeks to subvert not just the political order but the rule of law itself. This is the Summer of '71—a...

Det här är en berättelse om snön inom oss, men också om snön som skyddar världen. Den handlar om diamanter och fågelvingar, vad snön en gång var. Den handlar om att bli bländad när allt är tyst, och att inte se eller höra någonting när det stormar. Det är en bok om...

Gängen. Den organiserade brottsligheten. Maffian. Hotet mot vårt samhälle har många namn. Det som en gång sågs som en ­mytomspunnen och motorcykelburen dröm om frihet har urartat i en från­stötande mordspiral där tonåringar skjuter ihjäl varandra för en instagramupp­datering...

Folkmordet i Rwanda 1994 skördade 950 000 offer. På tre månader. Barn, kvinnor och män från tutsibefolkningen höggs skoningslöst ner med machete eller brändes inne i regelrätta massakrer, pådrivna av hutustyret. I Lejonmyran skildrar Lars Arrhenius, som tillbringade sin barndom i...

Yoga and Healing for Black Embodiment is a sacred offering and field guide for Black practitioners, teachers, and seekers reclaiming yoga as a path of remembrance, resistance, and liberation. Drawing from African spiritual traditions, diasporic wellness practices, classical yoga lineages, and personal testimony, author Danny Angelo Fluker Jr. honors Blackness not as something to transcend—but as something divine, powerful, and already whole.

Wrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster—the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, more was lost than the ship and the twenty-nine lives on board. The disaster was a human tragedy as well as an indictment of the American industrial policies that eventually cost the nation thousands of jobs and marooned hundreds of communities.

Maryland is tiny. Maryland is consequential. Maryland has never once confused these two facts as being in tension. From the Chesapeake Bay's Indigenous trading world to tobacco plantations to Civil War battlefields to crab-seasoned identity politics, Crabs, Catholics, and Constant Drama is the history of a state that has spent four centuries being more important than people remember and more contradictory than it will admit. It was founded as a Catholic refuge and immediately started running on coercion.

What if the greatest journey of your life wasn’t the one on the map? In Uncharted Moments, Jeff Ton recounts a six-year journey following the Lewis and Clark Trail with his wife, Carmen—an adventure that began as historical curiosity and became something far more personal. What started as a...

The Declaration of Independence forever transforms our understanding of equality, liberty, and the proper role of government. Its revolutionary philosophical framework is the bedrock foundation of the Constitution and our system of self-government. Yet America’s most important document is largely forgotten, misunderstood, and even attacked —fueling a crisis in the American spirit that threatens the nation’s very survival.

Discover the remarkable history of the Battle of the Wilderness...The year 1864 saw Abraham Lincoln facing an increasingly unpopular war with too few Union victories, and a presidential re-election campaign pitting him against the Democratic challenger and former Union commander General George McClellan. The outlook for both looked dire for Lincoln.

He was the seventeenth son of a slave wife. By fifty-four, he had killed three thousand Americans on a clear blue Tuesday morning and changed the trajectory of the twenty-first century. You think you know the story of Osama bin Laden. The cave. The fatwa. The towers. The SEAL raid. You don't.

"Eva Rutland, author of more than 20 novels and winner of the 2000 Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement, presens the timely and relevant story, first published in 1965, of her life in the years "before integration, before affirmative action---when segregation was the norm, discriniation was legally tolerated, and blacks were second-class citizens" (from the introduction). What is it like to be the first black family in an all- white neighborhood or the only little black girl in your third-grade class?