Early America

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult. It reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational exchanges between the United States and Brazil as merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates sought to trade outside legal confines.

Atlanta 1928 The night illegal bar owner, Honey Brinn, woke up after going into labor, she found her husband, Lorenzo, dead at their kitchen table. Although cleared of any wrongdoing by the authorities, the Press had not been so kind or understanding. Emanuel Caruso, newspaper journalist, has waited years for an opportunity to prove herself to her editor after being stuck writing fluff pieces for the paper, and catering to the domestic needs of her coworkers. But when all her male colleagues fail to get close to the illustrious owner of the speakeasy, she's offered a chance to verify Honey ...

The Great Migration was the name coined for the mass movement of African-Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line in the years following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The enormous promise of emancipation proved to be illusory for the majority of Southern blacks, whether free or formerly enslaved, and as a result, hundreds of thousands made use of their fundamental freedom to leave. This resulted in a “push” away from the South, caused by ongoing discrimination, punishing Jim Crow laws, and increasing violence directed at blacks by whites.

A travel-themed book set in the American Southwest during the early twentieth century. Embark on an awe-inspiring journey through the American Southwest in "The American Southwest," a captivating travel narrative that paints vivid images of breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage. Set against the backdrop of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California during a time of transformation, this evocative tale invites readers to explore the allure and beauty of regions steeped in history and promise. In this beautifully written account, the author transports you to the ...

Desmond Harvey, haunted by a past he cannot escape, flees the relentless pursuit of a witch hunter across the wilds of England. Seeking refuge, he sets sail for the New World, hoping to lose himself in the anonymity of colonial Massachusetts. Yet, upon his arrival in the year 1692, Desmond's search for peace is abruptly interrupted. On his first day in this new land, Desmond encounters four enigmatic strangers who claim to be travelers from a distant future. With their arrival, his world is irrevocably altered, thrusting him into a maelstrom of uncertainty and intrigue. These newfound ...

A historical fiction book set in Virginia and the early United States during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Journey into the heart of America's untamed wilderness with "A Son of the West," where the spirit of exploration collides with the intimate complexities of love and familial bonds. Experience the life of Meriwether Lewis—not just as a celebrated explorer, but as a son shaped by his mother's enduring influence and a man grappling with his myriad passions and ambitions against the backdrop of a young nation. As the narrative unfolds, we meet Widow Lewis, a figure steeped in ...

Illustrations of America's barges and a history of the Erie Canal

Twenty-three-year-old Rachel Willis is dying. Born with an untreatable heart defect, she wasn't expected to survive her infancy. But under the diligent care of her mother and a team of determined doctors they managed to keep her alive as long as she lives a relatively calm life. When Rachel became of age, against her mother's consent she became a librarian, which was her only opportunity to socialize. Nearly everyone who enters the small neighborhood library where she's employed is aware of her illness and respectful of her limitations. One evening her sister is unable to retrieve her from ...

An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

In a small village in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tradition. So when an opportunity presents itself to immigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind. Far away, in Henry Ford's factories in Michigan, a new kind of life is taking shape, and it offers gleaming promise for Jane and her young husband.

The Crisis of the House Never United chronicles an alternate early American history through the eyes of Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and a rich cast of supporting characters trying to make their way in tumultuous times, navigating rebellion, resentment, and foreign intrigue. As Americans grappled with how best to govern themselves, it was a time of maximum danger and heated passions when men were not yet sure as to whether ballots or bullets would decide the fates of governments. The infant America was organized under the Articles of Confederation, a weak system of national ...

On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left 15 Whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than a race war.

Nadia Baylor is a Taxi-Dancer, a Dime-a-Dance Girl, a Nickel Hopper working in a dancehall in 1936 where she does the one thing she's always wanted to do. Although Nadia's life hasn't always been so carefree, the scars on her body convey that. After fleeing a troubled marriage where she was no more than a servant to her sadistic husband, she changes her name and alters her appearance. Nadia soon makes a life for herself after moving into a boardinghouse in Atlanta, Georgia that houses other dancers. Nadia befriends one of the women she lives and works with, and soon discovers they have a ...

A lifetime of plans and dreams are packed into a container and shipped from Los Angeles to a Caribbean island; but for a writer and immigrant from post-WWII Europe, the past is hard to forget and even harder to leave behind. Passage From England is the emotional journey of a man's search for home that interweaves the adventures and tragedies of his childhood in America's 50s and 60s with the experiences of early retirement in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The journey begins in 1956, crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, arriving in New York Harbor, then traveling by train to the paper-thin ...

Grief-stricken widow Ella Marlowe never imagined a Christmas ornament would hurl her over two centuries into the past. Now, in the powderkeg of pre-revolutionary Charleston, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to James Hawthorne, a ruggedly handsome blacksmith with secrets of his own. As Ella navigates this dangerous new world, she discovers a passion she thought long dead, and a purpose she never knew she needed. But Ella's presence in the past comes at a price. A dark curse threatens to tear her from James, while the drums of war echo ever louder. With time itself as her enemy, Ella must...

Thomas Worden was alone with no living family on the dirty,cold docks in London, England in 1627 hoping to get on any ship that would take him far away from the memories of his mother and father's death, and the tough life they all had. Captain Henry Powell knew of his life, and how he and his father worked for years on the docks, and never had anything. Captain Henry Powell would take Thomas to Barbados to start a new life, to begin a new settlement, but little did they both soon learn that they, and their close friends would be pushed off this island, and have the political turmoil ...

The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy.

In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

The settlement of North America was the beginning of a new era in human history. The oppressive laws, habits, and customs of the Old World no longer held such power over those who had made the treacherous journey across the Atlantic. No reigning monarch or dictatorial power ever stepped onto the ground of North America. Yet, despite this, the men and women of the 13 colonies of North America were still not free until they threw off the shackles of England's government and asserted their own rights.

No sport has been more associated with America’s sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound with America’s traditions—with its notions of democracy and fair play—than baseball. And no professional sport in America has been as dramatically connected to social change as Major League Baseball when it became racially integrated the moment Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.