For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best. This book contains the American history you learnt at school. It teaches you the basics of over 150 key events from Columbus to Nixon and from cowboys to cosmonauts.

Highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the first modern war.

A sitting president thinks out loud about his legacy to his close friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, over seven sometimes turbulent years

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. This title presents a portrait of the era of invention and glamour.

Focuses on issues facing Americans - the projection of power ('American war'); race, immigration and the problematic promise of e pluribus unum ('American skin'); the intensity of religious conviction in public life ('American fervour'); and the mystique of American land ('American Space').

He's the 44th President of the United States, the first African-American to hold the office and a devoted husband and father of two. But how much do you really know about the world's most beloved politican?

Describes how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. This book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. It focuses on a national disgrace.

Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, this multiple biography studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. It shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace.

At 5:21 in the afternoon on 9/11 -- almost seven hours after both the Twin Towers had collapsed -- Building 7 of the World Trade Center also came down, even though it had not been struck by an airplane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, the official report on WTC 7 was finally released by NIST (the National Institute of ...

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. This title examines the expansion of black leadership from grassroots to the national arena, beginning with Booker T Washington and W E B DuBois and progressing through contemporary leaders including Harold Ford Jr, Jesse Jackson Jr, and Obama.

A collection of quotations from Michelle Obama that gives an insight into the life and mind of the First Lady. It features her thoughts on the election campaign and tells how she sees her role in the White House.

A narrative of the 24 hours after Kennedy was shot, in which Vice President Lyndon B Johnson became president, destroyed his relationship with Robert Kennedy, and set the stage for the great schism in liberal politics.

On the basis of 1400 oral histories from the men who were there, this account reveals how the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired.

Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Museum, this catalogue explores the dramatic events surrounding the Spanish assault on the Aztec Empire, focusing on the Emperor Moctezuma II who ruled from AD 1502 from his capital Tenochtitlan (the site of modern-day Mexico City). It opens with an examination of the origin of Mexico.

Whenever the USA has experienced hard times it has turned to the Exodus story for direction, inspiration and hope. The author visits the island where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath, and climbs the bell tower where the Liberty Bell was inscribed with a quote from Moses.

How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery. .

When one thinks of the New Deal era, the issue of the environment does not immediately come to mind. Yet New Deal policies had a huge impact on environmental thinking, defining a new role for the federal government in the scientific management of the natural environment.

With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828.

Published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies , this book looks at New Orleans, an American city with an appreciative awareness of its special place in the Caribbean and Atlantic worlds.