In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...

3) The story of World War II

Author

Miller, Donald L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and...

4) Documents of American history

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Series

Crofts American history

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference

Description

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Contains documents relating to American history from 1492 to 1962. Contains primary source material.

5) Documents of American history

Publisher

Prentice Hall

Pub. Date

Edition

10th ed.

Physical Desc

2 volumes ; 24 cm

Language

English

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Primary documents serve to provide an offical record of American history since 1492.

6) The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: & selections from his writings

Author

Franklin, Benjamin

Series

Modern library of the world's best books

Publisher

Illustrated Modern Library

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

xix, 264 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm

Language

English

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Falmouth The Fanger Collection

7) The spirit of 'seventy-six

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1967]

Physical Desc

lii, 1348 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. 25 cm.

Language

English

8) Was America a mistake?: An eighteenth-century controversy

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Series

Harper torchbooks volume 1329

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1967]

Edition

[1st ed.].

Physical Desc

240 p. illus., map. 21 cm.

Language

English

9) The Blue and the Gray: the story of the Civil War as told by participants

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[c1950]

Physical Desc

xxxviii, 1201 p. illus., maps. 24 cm.

Language

English

10) The American mind: an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1950

Physical Desc

ix, 476 p. port. 24 cm.

Language

English

11) Majority rule and minority rights

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Series

Richard lectures

Publisher

P. Smith

Pub. Date

[1943]

Physical Desc

92 p.

Language

English

12) Freedom, loyalty, dissent

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1954

Physical Desc

155 p. 20 cm.

Language

English

13) The empire of reason: how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Anchor Press/Doubleday

Pub. Date

1977

Physical Desc

xiv, 342 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Language

English

14) Theodore Parker

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Series

Beacon series in liberal religion volume LR4

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

[1960]

Physical Desc

339 p. 21 cm.

Language

English

15) Living ideas in America

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1964]

Edition

New, enl. ed.

Physical Desc

xx, 872 p. 22 cm.

Language

English

16) America's Robert E. Lee

Author

Commager, Henry Steele

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

1951

Physical Desc

111 p. illus. 25 cm.

Language

English

17) The growth of the American republic

Author

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Language

English

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"Over fifty years after its original publication, this classic work in American history is in its seventh edition. In a clear, vigorous style, its celebrated authors present the rich and complex narrative of America's experience in an account that extends from the pre-Columbian age to 1877 in Volume I, and in Volume II from 1877 to the present. Expertly revised to bring the study fully up to date, it reflects new insights derived from significant...

18) Marlborough; his life and times

Author

Churchill, Winston

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

[1968]

Physical Desc

xxxiii, 983 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book Set

19) Witness to America: an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c1999

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

xv, 605 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Language

English

20) The St. Nicholas anthology

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[1948-50]

Physical Desc

2 v. illus. 25 cm.

Language

English

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1) The spirit of 'seventy-six: the story of the American Revolution as told by participants

2) Democracy in America

3) The story of World War II

4) Documents of American history

5) Documents of American history

6) The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: & selections from his writings

7) The spirit of 'seventy-six

8) Was America a mistake?: An eighteenth-century controversy

9) The Blue and the Gray: the story of the Civil War as told by participants

10) The American mind: an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's

11) Majority rule and minority rights

12) Freedom, loyalty, dissent

13) The empire of reason: how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment

14) Theodore Parker

15) Living ideas in America

16) America's Robert E. Lee

17) The growth of the American republic

18) Marlborough; his life and times

19) Witness to America: an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today

20) The St. Nicholas anthology