child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark‘s historic trek-beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal-capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story overflows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years In the Writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion-and always it lay beyond the next mountain.

    Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of a powerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues of social justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES is "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding his vulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates in society by his life experiences and sufferings" (Los Angeles Times).

    Drawing from a wide range of sources - traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more - Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternative history of North America. Beginning with the Indian's first encounters with the earliest explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers and continuing to the present, Native American Testimony presents an authentic, challenging picture of an important, tragic, and frequently misunderstood aspect of American history.

    This is a marvelous rags-to-riches autobiography, thoughtful, dramatic and funny, filled with perceptive details about events and personalities. In his parade of people and events, we meet Douglas MacArthur, both as outcast and conqueror; listen to a troubled Eisenhower preparing to lay aside his uniform and plunge into politics; visit Mao Tse-tung in his cave in Henan; and trace the power-curve of America's greatness across the glory years at home and abroad.Prologue: The StorytellerBoston: 1915-38Asia: 1938-45 Europe: 1948-53 America: 1954-63Epilogue: Outward BoundAcknowledgmentsIndex

    In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear also offered general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian peoples in American society. With the assistance of Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of ethnology at the University of Michigan, and Warcaziwin, Standing Bear’s niece and secretary, Standing Bear sought to tell the white man “just how” they “lived as Lakotans.” Land of the Spotted Eagle is generously interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization, family, religion, and manhood. Standing Bear's views on Indian affairs and his suggestions for the improvement of white-Indian relations are presented in the two closing chapters.

    On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. The decision did much more than resolve the fate of an elderly black man and his family: Dred Scott v. Sanford was the first instance in which the Supreme Court invalidated a major piece of federal legislation. The decision declared that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the federal territories, thereby striking a severe blow at the legitimacy of the emerging Republican party and intensifying the sectional conflict over slavery. This book represents a skillful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War. The first third of the book deals directly with the with the case itself and the Court's decision, while the remainder puts the legal and judicial question of slavery into the broadest possible American context. Fehrenbacher discusses the legal bases of slavery, the debate over the Constitution, and the dispute over slavery and continental expansion. He also considers the immediate and long-range consequences of the decision.

    MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike.IllustrationsPreamble: ReveilleFirst Call Ruffles & Flourishes (1880-1917)Charge (1917-1918) Call to Quarters (1919-1935)To the Colors (1935-1941)Retreat (1941-1942) The Green War (1942-1944)At High Port (1944-1945)Last Post (1945-1950) Sunset Gun (1950-1951) Recall (1951) Taps (1951-1964)AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyCopyright AcknowledgmentsIndex

    In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this invisible institution.

    With startling candor, Nixon reveals his beliefs, doubts, and behind-the-scenes decisions, shedding new light on his landmark diplomatic and domestic initiatives, political campaigns, and historic decision to resign from the presidency.Memoirs, spanning Nixon’s formative years through his presidency, reveals the personal side of Richard Nixon. Witness his youth, college years, and wartime experiences, events which would shape his outward philosophies and eventually his presidency—and shape our lives. Follow his meteoric rise to national prominence and the great peaks and depths of his presidency.Throughout his career Richard Nixon made extensive notes about his ideas, conversations, activities, meetings. During his presidency, from November 1971 until April 1973 and again in June and July 1974, he kept an almost daily diary of reflections, analyses, and perceptions. These notes and diary dictations, quoted throughout this book, provide a unique insight into the complexities of the modern presidency and the great issues of American policy and politics.

    Hiss's defense was the most gripping story of its day, and the question of his guilt has remained an American enigma. Now, historian Allen Weinstein finally solves, once and for all, one of the great American mysteries. Weinstein also, for the first time ever, draws upon previously inaccessible information from Soviet archives. The result is an extraordinary book that leaves anyone who reads it with one inescapable conclusion: Alger Hiss was guilty.

    The ideas of the world-renowned Black American are represented on the arts, civil rights, socialism, and other topics.

      Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various waves of immigration that brought people and families from Germany, Russia, and beyond; recounts the cultural achievements of those who escaped oppression in their native lands; and discusses the movement away from Orthodoxy and the attitudes of American Jews—both religious and secular—toward Israel.   From the author of Jews, God, and History, which has sold more than one million copies and was called “unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” by the LosAngeles Times, this is a compelling account by an author who was himself an immigrant, raised in Helsinki, Finland, before arriving at Ellis Island in 1929 and going on to serve in army intelligence in World War II.

    Focusing on the actions and attitudes of the courts, legislatures, and public servants in six colonies, Judge Higginbotham shows ways in which the law has contributed to injustices suffered by Black Americans

    In this volume, editor Merrill D. Peterson has gleaned Jefferson's basic ideas on politics and produced a book containing the core of our third president's political thought. These ideas form a creed that still gives the United States of America a unique place in the history of nations and makes Jefferson one of the foremost advocates of human liberty.

    Finely detailed drawings of St. Nick, sleigh rides, reindeer, "The Night Before Christmas," North Pole, and more are all depicted in this seasonal collection.

    The authors are familiar with much of the pertinent & recent historical literature. Their facts are consistently accurate & their evaluation of the individual historical components of their story are sensible. But their broad interpretive overlay is little more than a rehash of the old patriotic, Whiggish account of the inexorable development of America as a land of democracy & material opportunity (except for blacks & Indians) & of Americans as an individualistic & hard-working people. Intrinsic to this genre is retrospective history, & the authors see in the early 18th-century colonial societies the seeds of everything from Lexington & Concord to the rise of industry. But, to their credit, the Cattons are willing to confront facts that do not strictly conform to the traditional outlines of the American dream story. They note, for example, that England practiced religious toleration before the colonies & that most indentured servants never achieved material success. Consequently, the book has the major virtue of textbook reliability (& the concomitant flaw of textbook staleness) couched, for everyday history buffs, in dramatic, colloquial prose.--Kirkus (edited)

    The book is a legacy that grew out of his celebrated course on the Westward Movement, and from a lifetime of research and writing that made him a leading authority in this important phase of American history.After an archaeologically oriented introduction to the American Indians, Professor Merk describes the arrival of the English in 17th century Virginia as the beginning of the "greatest migration of people in recorded history." He then tells of colonial relations with the Indians and of the expansion of French and British interests that resulted in the British victory in the French and Indian War. He stresses the importance of land speculators, always a jump ahead of the ordinary settler, before and after the American Revolution. He shows how sectional differences developed in the first half of the 19th century over primarily economic issues. He depicts the enormous growth that took place in the same half-century, as the United States absorbed the territory west of the Mississippi River and became a transcontinental nation. Emphasis is given to the intensification of sectional problems, especially slavery, which accompanied the annexation of Texas and the Mexican cession. And the author traces the events following the Kansas-Nebraska Act that led to further national disunity and eventually to the Civil War.The Westward Movement also meant the acquisition of vast natural resources, rich farmlands, natural transportation routes, forests, grasslands, and mineral deposits. Professor Merk explains how in the 20th century semi-arid regions were developed through dry farming, and describes the utilization of drought-resistant, hybridized grains and methods of cultivation that maintain moisture in the soil. He discusses the new techniques for exploiting both metallic and fuel minerals, the construction of multipurpose river basins, and the emergence of land-use planning. At the same time he points to the damage the United States has suffered because of its rapid expansion, including the impoverishment and even the destruction of the soil by wind and water.Professor Merk's book gores well beyond his famous lectures. The diplomacy and politics of the acquisitions west of the Mississippi are drawn more sharply here, while the mainly economic 20th-century topics are enlarged and extended through the mid-1970's. The author demonstrates how geography, economics, politics, diplomacy, science, and technology interact in the history of the Westward Movement and its place in the conversion of a raw wilderness into a world power.

    In strictly objective terms, this book deals with the historical controversies that have surrounded the study of slavery. Illustrated with over 300 pictures, including 40 in full color, drawn from archives around the world to highlight vital facets of the subject; it also includes eyewitness accounts and other documentary evidence that complement the text. The book also traces the history of the abolition movement, beginning in eighteenth-century England (one of the prime moves in establishing the slave trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). This humanitarian philosophy is now taken for granted (at least officially) by every nation on earth. The author, Susanne Everett, also reviews those societies that did not readily accept abolition - the Arabs, who ravaged East Africa for slaves until well into this century, the Belgians, who initiated a reign of terror in the Congo in the late nineteenth century, and the Southerners who struggled to preserve their dominant position through the confrontations of Civil Rights. The book concludes with a reminder that slavery remains a vital issue today. Slave labor was imposed by the Russians and Germans during the Second World War and there are isolated instances - in South America and parts of Africa - that require continued policing by Anti-Slavery Commission of the United Nations.History of Slavery is a comprehensive, thoroughly illustrated account of human bondage, and an essential volume for everyone concerned with society and man's part in it.

    Book by Rousas John Rushdoony

    

    The marchers - Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English - were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding confidence in their new found rights as free men in their newly adopted country. The mine operators took another view of these rights and of the strange, alien men who claimed them. When the posse was done firing, nineteen of the demonstrators were dead and thirty-nine were seriously wounded. Some six months later a jury of their peers was to exonerate the deputies of any wrong-doing. This long-forgotten incident is here movingly retold by Michael Novak, himself the son of Slovak immigrants and one of our most gifted writers and social observers. In his hands, the so-called "Lattimer Massacre" becomes not only a powerful story in its own right (and an invaluable key to the history of the growth of the United Mine Workers), but an allegory of that peculiarly American experience undergone over and over again throughout the land, and down to this very day; the experience of new immigrants, still miserable with poverty and bewilderment and suffering the trauma of culture shock, being confronted by the hostility and blind contempt of the "real" Americans. In Michael Novak's uniquely vivid account, the incident at Lattimer is seen as a tragedy brought on not so much by inhumanity as by the profound failure of majority WASP society to understand the needs and responses of "foreigners." The Guns of Lattimer is a gripping book that tells Americans, old and new, a great deal about themselves and the society they live in.

    The great photographs show us, and the delightful text and captions tell us, how San Francisco's Painted Ladies have enjoyed an astonishing renaissance.

    An abridgement of the two-volume work, The European Discovery of America, which describes the early voyages that led to the discovery of the New World.

    Technically, Richard M. Nixon was not impeached; he resigned before he could be. But, he resigned because impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal from office by the US was assured. And, the House took an overwhelming vote to impeach him in absentia.There were two others, but history has labeled both of them unjustified and purely political actions—Andrew Johnson in 1868, and Bill Clinton in 1999. Neither was removed from office, however, the Senate votes to do so falling short of the two-thirds majority necessary to do so. Only Nixon left office because of impeachment.The hardcover edition of High Crimes and Misdemeanors was published in 1978 by W.W. Norton. The book jacket flap read:Several units of government played vital roles in Richard Nixon’s eventual ouster. He could resist all but one. Congress.The Congress most directly represented the American people. After twenty-eight of the thirty-eight members of the House Judiciary Committee voted for impeachment in July 1974, the choices Nixon had were obvious.Howard Fields covered the total impeachment process for United Press International from April 30, 1973, until the summer of 1974, when Nixon resigned and the committee issued its final damning report, probably putting presidential impeachment to rest for another one hundred years.His is the dramatic story of an impeachment inquiry that was accidentally successful, a process directed by an overly cautious Peter W. Rodino, concerned lest he go down in history as the leader of a kangaroo court. But, it is also the story of an impeachment inquiry that probably would have failed in other hands.Richard Nixon has continued to claim his innocence, but this book sets forth the evidence as it was put before an extraordinary gathering of congressmen and congresswomen of every political persuasion, lawmakers who, for the most part, reluctantly, concluded that there was sufficient evidence of impeachable offenses to warrant Nixon’s removal from office.The impeachment proceedings against Nixon not only established the facts of a case, but strengthened the democratic system of government.Howard Fields lives in Arlington, Virginia.Unfortunately, the book flap was not prophetic; impeachment was not put to rest “for another hundred years.”This edition of High Crimes and Misdemeanors is being published now because the word “impeachment” is being heard increasingly in relation to another president, Donald J. Trump. In fact, many of the allegedly impeachable offenses peppered throughout this book are being leveled against him.

    

    Also included are descriptions of each cabinet post, and a list of every American President with the cabinet changes he made. Full-colorillustrations.

    

    Parker, the first native American to serve as commissioner of Indian Affairs. The name Ely Samuel Parker is seldom found among famous Indian chiefs. Indeed, the name seems somehow out of place in the company of men called Black Hawk or Crazy Horse or Geronimo. But the prosaic name is part of the story of an American Indian who chose to live his life in the white man's world. It is a story in which a frock coat replaces the traditional deerskin, and a surveyor's level and a soldier's orderly book take the place of the wampum belt and the war club.

    Patton's magnificent Third Army as it advanced across Nazi-occupied Europe and into Hitler's redoubt in the last year of World War II. As America s own answer to Blitzkrieg, Third Army s actions from the Normandy coast across France and Germany to Austria gave a new dimension to the term "fluid warfare." They only needed one general order to seek out the enemy, trap, and destroy them. This they did, relentlessly overcoming every obstacle thrown in their way.Third Army s story is one of the teamwork, of armor, infantry, and aircraft working together with a perfection that even amazed the Germans, who had always considered themselves the masters of the mobile offensive. Though Third Army is often remembered for its tank spearheads, like the 4th Armored Division, these pages also give credit to the brave infantry divisions which butted their heads against fortresses such as Metz with ultimate success. It is also the story of a triumph of administration as thousands of trucks carried forward the supplies so vital to keep the army on the move and fighting.When a German counteroffensive nearly burst through the U.S. lines in the Ardennes, it was Patton s Third Army that turned on its heel and immediately drove in the Bulge, ending Hitler s last great hope for success in the west. Afterward nothing could stop Third Army itself as it crossed the Rhine and overran the Reich. Much of Third Army s greatness, its driving force, its will to win, was owed to one man General George Smith Patton, Jr - and in consequence a significant section of this book has been devoted to him alone.In these pages renowned military historian George Forty gives a vivid impression in words and pictures of what it was like to live and fight with Patton s men. Full of eyewitness accounts and a host of photographs and maps, it relates the full story of how America s most dynamic fighting formation led the Allied effort against the Nazis seemingly invincible European empire."

    

    With photographs, period drawings, and reproductions of old newspapers, The Street Book is a visual treat as well. The detailed topographical maps of Manhattan provide an easy reference for locating streets, and even make it possible to use The Street Book as a walking guide.

    

    A distinguished conservative dissects the economic and political policies that threaten our liberty - and points the way to an American Renaissance.