United States History Books

Sagamore Hill was Theodore Roosevelt's home for more than 30 years until his death in 1919. He had it built long before he became the 26th US presi...

At America’s national parks, the Revolution awaits rediscovery! The essays within The American Revolution: Official National Park Service Handbook ...

...the story is one of patriotism...what these people sacrificed, what they dared, and what they accomplished...was not simply the patriotism of in...

Things looked bleak for the Continental Army during August 1781. For over six years, the American Revolutionary War wreaked havoc across the United...

The Fall of Fort Henry discusses the battle at the fort that led to a very important Union vitory during the Civil War. The fall of the fort gave t...

Fortress. Redoubt. Stronghold. Tower. Castle. Bastion. No matter the word for them, forts across the United States have stood the test of time and ...

Why was a fort constructed along the Mississippi named Massachusetts? Why build a fortification on a barrier island far from the mainland shore? Wh...

In 1903 and 1904, the Hensleys, and their relatives the Gibbons, moved to Brush Mountain. While there, they carved out new farms on the remote moun...

An estimated two hundred photographers rushed to Johnstown to record what was clearly the greatest natural disaster of the 19th century. Carrying p...

The battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, mark the start of the American Revolutionary War. On this day, tensions finally boiled ove...

"My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an...

Dawn was just emerging from a cold February night when Loyalist forces marching alongside Scottish Highlanders, attempted to cross the dismantled M...

Established in 1978, New River Gorge National Park & Preserve encompasses over 70,000 acres of land along 53 miles of the New River from Bluest...

Reconstruction is one of the most complicated, poorly understood, and most significant periods in American history. After the Civil War, the U.S. g...

Although the 1783 Treaty of Paris formally concluded the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain, it failed to creat...

The War of 1812 is often earmarked as a “forgotten war,” despite its other moniker as the United States’ “Second War for Independence.” The War of ...

Through personal letters and academic scholarship, To Live and Die Amongst the Monongahela Hills introduces readers to the historic life of Albert ...

Fortress. Redoubt. Stronghold. Tower. Castle. Bastion. No matter the word for them, forts across the United States have stood the test of time and ...

First published in 1930, William Howard Taft is the definitive biographical account of the 27th president of the United States. It documents Taft’s...

Few great inventors have left behind them so complete and enthralling a record of their work and thoughts than did Orville and Wilbur Wright—the su...

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. --19th A...

In its time it was called the Great War, the War to End All Wars, but today the events surrounding World War I are dimly recalled, reduced to a han...