Novedades

This volume documents the prominent role the Bible played in the founding of America. From the Pilgrims to Winthrop to Whitefield, Edwards, Washington, Madison, and Jefferson, this new book by Dr. Eddie L. Hyatt documents where America's founding generation derived their values and ideals for bringing into existence the freest and most powerful nation in history. j

The land of innocence and bounty was exploding in violence... At the dawn of the 18th century, while the French and English are locked in a battle for the northeast territory, the ancient Indian tribes begin a savage brother-against-brother conflict—forced to take sides in the white man’s war—pushed into an era of great heroism and greater loss. In the tradition of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, and the later adventure exploits of Daniel Boone and Jim Bowie, the First Frontier Series is a stunningly realistic adventure saga set on America’s earliest battleground...

In the bestselling tradition of Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail and Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic, The Road That Made America is a lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories in our nation’s history—the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that 18th-century American settlers forged from Philadelphia to Georgia that expanded the country dramatically in the decades before we ventured west.

The familiar shape of the United States, stretching from ocean to ocean, feels as solid and permanent as the continent itself. But that iconic silhouette was never inevitable; it is merely the current frame in a long and turbulent film of national evolution. This book tells the story of the American map, revealing how a fragile alliance of thirteen coastal colonies grew into a global power by acquiring, conquering, and negotiating for every square mile of its domain. The journey begins with the chaotic, overlapping charters of the colonial era and the first great challenge of the new ...

In 1781, the new United States was nearly bankrupt. As the American and French armies under Generals Washington and Rochambeau surrounded General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, James Lovell, Congressman, examined a captured, soiled letter. The numbers in General Cornwallis’s ciphered message might hold the key to the defeat of the British. Expert in encryption, James Lovell knew the answer to British loss could lie in his hands.