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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author of the best-selling Don't Know Much About® series provides a gripping exploration into the hidden history of America at war from the Revolution to the conflict in Iraq through six emblematic battles and reveals untold tales that span our nation's history.
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Language
English
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An iconoclastic look at America's past: overlooked episodes that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, these narratives bring to light little-known but fascinating, myth-busting facts. Read the story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists; the coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella,...
5) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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Language
English
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Description
From the first settlements of the continent through Vietnam, Watergate, and the Reagan era, Davis takes listeners on a rollicking ride through 600 years of Americana. Long-held myths and misconceptions are revealed.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Explores America's hidden history in the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the most tumultuous but overlooked periods in the nation's early history.
In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the "dream of our founders" spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly...
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