Joy Hakim
Author
Series
A history of US volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
Author
Series
A history of US volume 3
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Covers American history from the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary War and the writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Author
Series
A history of US volume 8
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Covers the period of American history from 1880 to World War I, including immigration, labor relations, the Progressive movement and the Spanish American War
Author
Series
A history of US volume 5
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Discusses the period of growth in American history prior to the Civil War, describing the lives of people from a variety of backgrounds, including Jedediah Smith, Emily Dickinson, John James Audubon, and Sojourner Truth
Author
Series
A history of US volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Begins with the Ice Age when people came from Asia to a new land and goes to the discovery of that new land by Columbus thousands of years later
Author
Series
A history of US volume 7
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization
Author
Series
A history of US volume 6
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Describes the American Civil War, focusing on its causes, events, and consequences. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. Off the war fields, War, Terrible War captures the passion and commitment of abolitionists and slave owners alike in their fiery debates throughout the land. With profiles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses...
Author
Series
A history of US volume 4
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Covers American history from Washington's inauguration until the first quarter of the 19th century, including the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expedition, and the beginnings of abolitionism
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Riveting and moving, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. Off the ware fields, War, Terrible War captures the passion and commitment of abolitionists and slave owners...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games aplenty. But alongside this...
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Language
English
Description
Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaming across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back east, large-scale immigration was also going on, but not all Americans wanted newcomers in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Thousands of years ago - way before Christopher Columbus set sail - wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The First Americans is a fascinating re-creation of pre-Columbian Native American life, and it's an adventure of a lifetime! Hunt seals with Inuit; harvest corn on a cliff-top mesa; hunt the mighty buffalo; and set sail with...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
For the captains of industry-men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford-the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hour a day under extreme, dangerous conditions. The disparity between the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaming across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and a new and different American West came into being: a land of farmers, ranchers, miners, and city dwellers. Back east, large-scale immigration was also going on, but not all Americans wanted newcomers in...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation, tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the new country faced. Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory (bought from France at a mere four cents an acre!), Lewis and Clark's daring expedition through the wilderness, the War of 1812 a.k.a. "Revolutionary War, Part II", Tecumseh's effort to form an Indian confederacy, the...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
People are coming to America-all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Riveting and moving, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. Off the ware fields, War, Terrible War captures the passion and commitment of abolitionists and slave owners...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folks from mountain men and railroad builders to whalers and farmers, as they pushed forward into the open frontier, and all their hopes and fears are captured in Liberty for All? In addition...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
People are coming to America-all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike...