David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for...
The prarie years and the war years A distillation of 6 separate volumes about the life of Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg. Note: an ebook is available for the prarie years but not for the war years, so the combined collection is not available in...
This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie...
Includes longer reminiscences which describe experiences of Mormon youth growing up in Utah between 1847 and 1900, shorter excerpts which complement these writings, and letters written by children.
David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second...
Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. It is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new...
Born into a noble family, Aquinas chose the life of a humble friar. Lumbering and shy, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox" - but he grew up to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Possessed of the rarest brilliance, he led a life of almost...
The Story of the Mormon Trail Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death--but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity.
In this important book, Noel Rae integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face to face with slavery's everyday reality. From the travel journals of sixteenth-century Spanish settlers who offered religious...
Wild Tribes Hubert Howe Bancroft's comprehensive work provides insights into the lives, customs, and societal structures of these often-overlooked communities. Delve into the historical narratives and anthropological observations that shed light...