United States History Books

James A. Garfield is often remembered mostly for being the second American president to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln. For a while, histor...

The legacies forged from Mammoth Cave guides, like Stephen Bishop, Mat and Nick Bransford, Ed Bishop, Bob Lively, and Ed Hawkins, were as permanent...

Paula Steichen was only two when she moved with her immediate family, the Sandburgs, to Connemara, a beautiful old mansion on more than two hundred...

Powerful stories of influential Native Americans — for kids ages 8 to 12From every background and tribal nation, native people are a vital part of ...

By the end of the 18th century, over 15,000 enslaved African men, women, and children had arrived, labored, and died in what is now known as New Yo...

Joseph Plum Martin - Private Yankee Doodle - recreates the daily life of the Revolutionary soldier as no one else has ever done! He withholds nothi...

In the first part of the 20th century, the Pullman Palace Car Company transformed basic railroad travel into a luxurious, personalized excursion. T...

During a hot summer in 1848, a convention was held by the Women of Seneca County, NY to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions of wome...

The name Mark Thrash lives on as legend for good reason. He was a folklore institution even during Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Pa...

What caused the Civil War? A number of issues ignited the Civil War: states' rights, the role of the federal government, the preservation of the Un...

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 over two-dozen national parks, the American Revolution awaits discovery. The essays in this handbook are a tool in the process of rediscovering ...

The Battle of Antietam is known for not only being the bloodiest single day battle in the American history but also for being the turning point in ...

Learn about the first president of the US from author Peter Hannaford. In The Essential George Washington, he collects observations on the nation's...

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...

"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...

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

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...

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...