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  • Lincolns Missing Papers and Chair

    This book started out with the most innocent of intentions until it acquired a life of it's own which left me with the impression that it had become something out of the movie, National Treasure.My 98 year old father of whom I love dearly is my oldest friend on the earth has requested I be his courier for this book.Throughout the years my father has told me many stories in detail of yesteryear and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Dr. Spock

    Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor

    Edited by Michael S. Foley ...
    At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that took place over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Beginner's American History

    The Beginner's American History is one of Montgomery's popular works, with the aim to help in the process of learning basics of American History. Rich with maps and illustrations this textbook is useful not just for the students but for the teachers too. Overall content is good selected and allows the discussions with wide list of questions. David Henry Montgomery or D.H. Montgomery was an ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development

    A Case Study of Nova Scotia

    Series series Heritage
    This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities, their limited tax bases, and the pressure on them to provide higher levels of public services. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Lives and Times of the Patriots

    An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838 and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842

    by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Lives and Times of the Patriots was first published in 1938, the centennial of the Upper Canadian Rebellion and the subsequent Patriot raids over the border from the United States. The Canadian part of the agitation for constitutional and social reform, long a subject of controversy and bitterness, is now generally considered to be, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier put it, a fight "for constitutional ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Migration (Second Edition)

    by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    Here is a record of one of history's great migrations, the Atlantic Migration to the New World, especially from 1770 to 1890, when eleven million people came from the British Isles to North America. The slow crossing by sailing ship was unpleasant even in the best accommodation, but for the poor conditions were wretched in the extreme. Famine, unemployment, poverty drove many from the Old World, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • American Notes

    for General Circulation

    American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society almost as if returning a status report on their progress.On January 3, 1842, one month shy of his 30th birthday, Dickens sailed with his wife, Kate, and her maid, Anne Brown, from Liverpool ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Pioneer Farmer and Backwoodsman

    Volume Two

    by Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this lavishly illustrated new book, the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and other famous histories of pioneer days, relates the story of the Canadian farm and farmer from the primitive to the machine age. Farm life and farm processes are pictured in fascinating detail, and Mr. Guillet quotes generously from books, newspapers, letters and hitherto unpublished archives material, using the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Passing of New France

    by William Wood ...
    'War is the grave of the Montcalms.' No one can tell how old this famous saying is. Perhaps it is as old as France herself. Certainly there never was a time when the men of the great family of Montcalm-Gozon were not ready to fight for their king and country; and so Montcalm, like Wolfe, was a soldier born. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rip Van Winkle

    A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker

    "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never ... Read more

    $2.62 USD

  • The Rumrunners

    A Prohibition Scrapbook

    by Marty Gervais ...
    A 10,000 copy seller in Canada, The Rumrunners offers a photographic history of the regular men and women who smuggled Canadian liquor to the United States during the roaring '20s. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Prohibition. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Oliver Twist

    English Literature Edition

    Series Book 1 - Classic Literature
    Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. ... Read more

    $3.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada and the Canadians

    Very surprising it seems to assert that the Mother Country knows very little about the finest colony which she possesses--and that an enlightened people emigrate from sober, speculative England, sedate and calculating Scotland, and trusting, unreflective Ireland, absolutely and wholly ignorant of the total change of life to which they must necessarily submit in their adopted home. ... Read more

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  • The History of the American Indians

    by James Adair ...
    "Adair...lived for a time with the Cherokee...had a theory that the American Indians were descendants of the Lost Tribe of Israel...compared Indian ritual and customs with those of the Jews and found a great many similarities." Knoxville New-Sentinel, Oct.25, 1970"Explorer, doctor, writer, Indian trader...James Adair...was a roaming adventurer...it was his firm belief that the Indian tribes were ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of The United Nations (UN)

    by Heady Delpak ...
    Born out of the ashes of the League of Nations following the beginning of World War II, the United Nations is an international organization dedicated to world peace and safety. Originally comprised of 51 countries, today that number has swelled to almost 200 nations working together toward economic development and social advancement. One of its earliest resolutions called for the elimination of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Story of the Acadians

    A Historical Narrative

    Series series Beyond Blue Earth to the French Prairie Trilogy
    Plunge into the heart of an epic journey with 'The Story of The Acadians', an engrossing narrative nestled within the pages of 'Beyond Blue Earth to the French Prairie Volume I.' This mesmerizing tale unfurls a saga spanning four generations, tracing the intricate intertwining of the Bourgeois and Sire lineages, eventually blossoming into the Cyr family of Madawaska.At the heart of this riveting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • De verovering van de Rockies

    Hoe haar geografie de rol van de Verenigde Staten in de wereld bepaalt

    by Robert Kaplan ...
    De verovering van de Rockies is een kort epos dat aan de hand van een intelligente en meeslepende beschrijving van het Amerikaanse landschap uiteenzet hoe het land een wereldmacht is geworden en hoe het zich in de chaotische wereld van nu zou moeten gedragen.Als klein jongetje luisterde Robert D. Kaplan vol aandacht naar de verhalen van zijn vader, die als vrachtwagenchauffeur van de ene kust van ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Fashioning the Canadian Landscape

    Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era

    Edited by John Irvine Little ...
    Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Thomas Jefferson the most French of the Americans

    Know Thomas Jefferson the Founding Father, when he was the Ambassador from the United States in Paris during the French Revolution. Its humanistic advice influenced the French revolutionists of the time who were his/her friends. He adored good wine and in France he was at the good place. It was his recreation before becoming the Great President that he was. What a beautiful destiny! And to return ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • History of Austin County

    In the spring of 1933, exactions of old age forced William Trenckmann to sell his newspaper to the National Weeklies of Minnesota but he remained its editor in all matters pertaining to Texas. Mr. Trenckmann was regarded as one of the best informed men in Texas on state and national affairs and during his many years in the newspaper business wrote considerably about the history of the state and ... Read more

    $9.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Washington: The Early Years

    What most people know of George Washington comes from myths, legends and a few classes in U.S. history. While much of that information is interesting and even fascinating, the fact is that not all of it is true. However, that isn't to suggest that the real George Washington wasn't interesting or fascinating. On the contrary, the real life adventures of Washington are even more exciting and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Letters from America 1833-1838

    Wilhelm Hübsch's Letters from America offers a fascinating and detailed view into the life and struggles on the American frontier. Hübsch emigrated to America in 1833 on the Olbers, a 152-foot-long sailing ship, as a member of the Mainzer Emigration Society. His decision to venture to the new world was founded upon a sense of adventure, compelled by political circumstances and encouragement of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave

    Series Book 1 - Frederick Douglass Collection
    The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Florida del Inca

    Historia del adelantado, Hernando de Soto, governador, y capitan general del reino de la Florida. Y de otros heroicos caballeros, Españoles, é Indios.

    La Florida del Inca es el título de un libro histórico-literario escrito por el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, el primer mestizo peruano e hispanoamericano de renombre intelectual. Fue publicada en 1605, en Lisboa, Portugal. En ella el autor narra básicamente la expedición del conquistador español Hernando de Soto a la península de la Florida, en el continente norteamericano (1539-1542). Su calidad ... Read more

    $1.10 USD or Free with Kobo Plus