War & Conflict
The Alamo
by Mary Dodson Wade
A gripping introduction to the fierce battle at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, The Alamo includes eyewitness accounts of the battle and a roster…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-95-6 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A World in Peril
by Karl E. Valois
For 13 days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other, on the brink of potential nuclear disaster as they…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-92-9 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
The Declaration of Independence
by Wim Coleman
Excerpts from the works of John Locke, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and others provide an in-depth look at ideas on slavery, government, liberty,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-024-2 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Echoes of the Civil War: The Blue
by Stephen M. Forman
This selection of letters, speeches, journals, and eyewitness accounts of the Civil War presents the views of soldiers, nurses, and political and military leaders from…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-83-7 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Echoes of the Civil War: The Gray
by Stephen M. Forman
Letters, journals, and government documents provide a glimpse of life during the Civil War from the Confederate point of view. Among selections from military leaders…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-84-4 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Korean War: Limits of American Power
by Karl E. Valois
The words of President Truman, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower, and others, reporters’ stories, and letters from soldiers shed light on the war, which…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-81-3 Price: 7.95 60 pages, paperback
Lone Star: The Republic of Texas 1836-1846
by Stephen L. Hardin
Award-winning Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin provides an excellent overview of the Republic of Texas. In 1836, when Texas won its independence from Mexico, many…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-63-9 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Manhattan Project: A Secret Wartime Mission
by Kenneth M. Deitch
Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary…
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ISBN: 978-1878668-41-7 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Mexican War
by Wim Coleman
In 1846, two American nations went to war, precipitated by the U.S. annexation of Texas. This volume presents excerpts from the memoirs, letters, poetry, and…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-25-9 Price: 7.95 66 pages, paperback
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World: The Beginnings of the American Revolution
by Jeanne Munn Bracken
The beginnings of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord come alive through personal narratives from participants and observers and through primary sources representing British…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-32-5 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Spanish-American War: America Emerges as a World Power
by Mary Alice B. Robinson
In 1898, American troops fought in what Secretary of State John Hay referred to as a “splendid little war” in Cuba and the Philippines. In…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-015-0 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Vietnam War: How the United States Became Involved (2nd ed.)
by Mitch Yamasaki
Through a collection of original source documents and the words of those who lived through it, The Vietnam War gives insight into the historic background…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-14-13 Price: 7.95 70 pages, paperback
War of 1812
by Mary Alice Burke Robinson
Primary sources detail the course of the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain and its Native American allies, with emphasis on the…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-007-5 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Women in the American Revolution
by Jeanne Munn Bracken
Women in the American Revolution picks up where usual historical accounts of the Revolutionary War leave off — with the varied roles and contributions of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-23-5 Price: 7.95 79 pages, paperback
Women in the Civil War: Warriors, Patriots, Nurses, and Spies (2nd ed.)
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
From freedom fighters and spies to volunteer nurses and patriots on the homefront, women of the North and South served critical and largely unexamined roles…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-19-8 Price: 7.95 84 pages, paperback
World War II: On the Homefront
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt led the nation through a dramatic changeover to a wartime economy. Women found a new place in…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-60-8 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
World War II: The European Theatre (2nd ed.)
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
Through original photographs and documents and the words of those who lived through it, World War II: The European Theatre gives insight into the global…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-12-9 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
World War II: The Pacific Theatre
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
This volume on the war in the Pacific deals with the origins of the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and early island conquests by…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-86-8 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Civil War
by Arden Bowers
The Civil War pitted North against South, brother against brother, in a series of devastating battles and philosophical confrontations that would divide the nation for…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-071-6 Price: 8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Declaration of Independence
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman
Through letters, speeches, political tracts, and summaries of the document text, this volume provides insight into the Declaration of Independence, the principles that underpin it,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-070-9 Price: 8.95 54 pages, paperback
Reconstruction
by JoAnne Deitch
This compilation of primary sources provides a detailed view of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, covering freed slaves, carpetbaggers, presidential policy, Radical Republicans, social and…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-072-3 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Revolutionary War
by Pat Perrin
Through primary sources and background material, readers learn the causes and course of the Revolutionary War and the American victory and about the writing of…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-061-7 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Spanish Explorers
by Pat Perrin
Covering the early stages of Spanish ocean and overland exploration and the Spanish conquest of the Americas, this book contains primary source and background material…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-088-4 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
A Dangerous Search: Black Patriots in the American Revolution. Book 1 – From Lexington to Bunker Hill
by Nancy I. Sanders
Based on actual events in the Revolutionary War and some of the African-American men who shaped those events, A Dangerous Search tells the story of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-22-8 Price: 7.95 103 pages, paperback
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