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Joseph P Alessi
Settling the Frontier

The Role of Indigenous People in the Founding of America's First Major Border Towns In 1811, while escorting members of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company up the Columbia River, their Chinookan guide …

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W Robert Beckman, Sharon S MacDonald
Carrying the Colors

An Escaped Slave who Fought for the Union and Whose Wartime Heroism was Finally Recognized with the Nation's Highest Honor for Military ValorIn 1862, Andrew "Andy" Jackson Smith, son of a white …

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Steven Bier
Facing Washington's Crossing

They crossed the ocean to fight in someone else's war. They came for glory, honor, and plunder. Instead, they became America's most famous captives.In Steven Bier's groundbreaking book, Facing Washington'…

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James A Crutchfield
Revolt at Taos

An Uprising by New Mexicans and Native Americans Against American Rule that Continues to Resonate Today On the morning of January 19, 1847, Charles Bent, the newly appointed governor of the American-claim…

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Michael J Decker
The Sasanian Empire at War

A comprehensive military history of one of the most important empires of Late AntiquityThe Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651 is the first comprehensive study in English …

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Robert Dunkerly
Decision at Brandywine

A detailed study of the turning point in one of the most important battles in American history The Battle of Brandywine, fought on September 11, 1777, along its namesake creek in the bucolic Pennsylvania …

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Gary Ecelbarger
George Washington's Momentous Year

The second volume of George Washington's Momentous Year picks up where Volume 1 concluded, in the wake of the Battle of Whitemarsh in early December 1777, with the British army returning to Philadelphia a…

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Robert N Fanelli
Lydia's Tale

Lydia Darragh is famed for eavesdropping on British General William Howe's staff as they planned a surprise attack, then sneaking through the lines to give warning to American soldiers. Her actions are sa…

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Zach Fitzner
Tears for Crocodilia

Seventy million years ago in what would become North America, a monstrous thirty-five-foot-long Cretaceous crocodile lurked on a marshy riverbank. Springing suddenly, its huge jaws trapped and crushed a j…

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Don N Hagist
Noble Volunteers

Advisor for Ken Burns The American Revolution on PBS (R) Winner of the 2020 American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia Book of the Year Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying a…

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John M Hutchins
Coronado's Well-Equipped Army

The historic 1540-1542 expedition of Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is popularly remembered as a luckless party of exploration which wandered the American Southwest and then blundered onto …

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Paul Kahan
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

A Short History of the Politics of Reconstruction in a Changing America On December 5, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant transmitted his eighth and final message to Congress. In reviewing his tenure as pre…

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Michael G Laramie
King George's War and the Thirty Year Peace

The Final Volume in the Award-Winning Wars for North America Trilogy: King William's, Queen Anne's and King George's Wars King George's War and the Thirty-Year Peace continues the contest for North Americ…

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Michael G Laramie
Sentinels by the Sea

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare centered on sieges, not seeking out and destroying the enemy's army in battle. A captured fortress or town was a bargaining piece in the inevitable peace treaty…

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Frederick C Leiner
Prisoners of the Bashaw

FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE America's first crisis with the Islamic world: the diplomatic and military mission to free more than three hundred enslaved sailors On October 31, 18…

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John R Maass
The Battles of Spencer's Ordinary and Green Spring, 1781

The decisive Yorktown campaign of 1781 in Virginia, in which an American and French army and navy forced the surrender of the last major British field force in America, was the final Patriot victory of th…

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David Macdonald, Raine Waters
Encountering North America

How European settlers learned of the vast North American continent was often through the accounts of men who individually or in groups trekked into the wilderness. Their chief motivation was ascertaining …

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Ken Shumate
The Stamp ACT and the American Revolution

The Stamp Act and the American Revolution tells the story of the Stamp Act controversy of 1764 to 1766, widely considered to be the most influential event in the run-up to American independence from Great…

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Paul Staiti
The Killing of Jane McCrea

The killing of Jane McCrea on July 26, 1777, on the outskirts of a village in the northern Hudson Valley, would unexpectedly rupture the British advance from Canada that was meant to crush the American Re…

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Robert Thompson
The Cruel Sky

The men who flew American heavy bombers over Europe in World War II were very young--most were either in their late teens or early twenties. Before they deployed overseas, they were military amateurs who …

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