The Shaker experience in America: A history of the United Society of Believers

A history of the Teratology Society

✍ Shepard, Thomas H. ;Barr,, Mason ;Brent, Robert L. ;Hendrickx, Andrew ;Kochhar, 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 224 KB

A Renegade History of the United States

✍ Thaddeus Russell 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2014 🏛 Simon & Schuster;Free Press 🌐 English ⚖ 530 KB 👁 2 views

In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the

A Zombie's History of the United States

✍ Miller, Josh 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Ulysses Press 🌐 English ⚖ 484 KB 👁 2 views

“*Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.*” —Howard Zinn Shedding light on 500 years of suppression, this shocking exposé reveals the pivotal role in American history played by its most invisible minorit

These truths: a history of the United St

These truths: a history of the United States

✍ Jill Lepore 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 12 MB 👁 2 views

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and th

These truths: a history of the United St

These truths: a history of the United States

✍ Jill Lepore 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 12 MB 👁 2 views

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and th

In the Kingdom of the Sick: a Social History of Chronic Illness in America

✍ Laurie Edwards 📂 Fiction 📅 2013;2014 🏛 Walker Books;Bloomsbury Publishing USA 🌐 English ⚖ 172 KB 👁 1 views

Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live