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Before the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod, what was happening in North America? Who was there? What civilizations rose and fell? For years, the answers to these questions have been shrouded in mystery. At the time of European contact, a diverse world of Native peoples thrived across the continent. What was their backstory? Who were the ancestors of the Sioux? Where did the Navajo come from? What about the Apache, the Comanche, the Cherokee?

"Alaska History Highlights" is a captivating book that takes readers on a journey through the rich past of America's northernmost state. From Russian colonization to the Klondike Gold Rush, it explores the significant events that shaped Alaska's identity. With vivid storytelling and meticulous research, this book is a must-read for history enthusiasts, adventure seekers, cruisers, and lovers of wilderness. Explore the unique land, the pathway to statehood, Native struggles and triumphs, the impact of Alaska's vast resources, and the role in tourism. Reflect on Alaska's place in history and ...

It just doesn’t make sense, does it? The America of today shouldn’t exist if what our teachers and overseers taught us about the country’s history were true. The truth is that nearly all of it was untrue or, at the very best, wildly inaccurate. Your eyes are not fooling you. There’s no better or more important time than now to smash the establishment’s historical narrative on American History. A Twisted History of the United States, 1450-1945, is an innovative, rollicking, and eye-opening ride down America’s memory lane that, like all good histories, explains why things really ...

Ladd Hamilton's vivid storytelling brings to life the infamous murder of popular Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder in the Bitterroot Mountains during the 1860s Idaho-Montana gold rush.

Professional wrestling offers unparalleled excitement and perks, but aging wrestlers face challenges when they can no longer compete. This is the reality for Mohawk Jones, formerly “The Fightin’ Brave,” a retired Native American wrestler. Once a beloved star, Mohawk now feels aimless, missing his glory days. He shares a home with his former rival, “The Sinister Punjabi” Cobra Tara Singh, an elderly East Indian man who also longs for his wrestling past. These two grumpy old men, with their cultural differences, bicker constantly as they navigate their golden years. Their lives ...

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.

In a lawless land, one man begins forging his future with a gun. Nate Carlton wants peace and to take up the life he left behind. Instead, returning home to South Carolina from the Civil war, he finds under the Reconstruction, death and destruction of all that he held dear. Homeless and cast adrift, he saves a stranger’s life from an Indian attack, an act that will change his life forever. In a lawless and Wild West, having lost everything, he must make his way with the only tool he has-a gun. But will he learn and master the deadly skill before he is killed by Carpetbaggers and outlaws? ...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price’s Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became known as “Price’s Raid,” the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River.

From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family’s land in Hawai‘i. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui’s east side—given by King Kamehameha III in 1848—extends from mountain to sea, encompassing ninety acres of lush, undeveloped rainforest jungle along the rocky coastline and a massive sixteenth-century temple with a mysterious past. When a property tax bill arrives with a 500 percent increase, Sara and her family members are forced to make a decision about the property: fight to keep the land or sell to the next offshore millionaire.

This book chronicles the historic impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe & Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain on the American Civil War. American political, social, religious, literary, legislative, economic and military history interlaces with the story of an author who wrote a novel that ignited a firestorm and a college professor who save the Union at Gettysburg and oversaw the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

From birth, it seemed that John and Katie were meant for each other. Growing up together in the cold and withering shadows of the Great Depression their love for each other only blossomed and grew stronger. Yet, the threats and demands of a looming war and the aggressive romantic designs of another threatened to tear them apart. John and Katie's relationship had one last chance to succeed, but first, they had to survive the worst man-made accident in U.S. history.

Uncover the Hidden Threads Connecting Two of Black America's Most Enigmatic Organizations. At first glance, the discreet, centuries-old traditions of Black Freemasonry seem worlds apart from the fiery, revolutionary spirit of the Nation of Islam. One, a quiet fraternal order rooted in Enlightenment ideals and community building; the other, a powerful religious and political movement born from the crucible of urban despair and radical Black nationalism. But what if these seemingly disparate forces shared more than meets the eye? In Beyond the Lodge, Within the Nation, delve into a compelling...

One hundred, sixty-three years after Sojourner Truth delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio, poet, author, and military spouse, LATORIAL FAISON, boldly delivers her "I am Woman" poem at the Rocks, Inc. monthly meeting in celebration of Women's History Month on Saturday, March 22, 2014 in Yongsan, Korea. This poem lyrically illustrates the plight of women of all colors and ethnicities from the beginning of time to the present day. Faison boldly and poetically captures images of women in history and their struggles. The poem, like Sojourner...

Eleventh in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as ...

From the Revolutionary War to his death in 1831, James Monroe's life was dominated by partisan politics. Monroe not uniquely among the American founders hated political parties, even writing that he "always considered their existence as the curse of the country." Yet his career saw the rise, fall, and rebirth of American political parties.

In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore.

In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages.

"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as "rage," and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms.

Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the author’s great-grandmother and namesake, is a fascinating figure whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem Renaissance. After inheriting her mother’s hair care enterprise, A’Lelia would become America’s first high profile black heiress and a prominent patron of the arts.