The dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslave...
Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
by D. J. Waldie
Autobiography of Charles Biddle, Vice-president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. 1745-1821
by Charles 1745-1821 Biddle and James S Biddle
History of the Town of Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
by Hiram 1822-1883 Barrus
You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer! (You Wouldn't Want To...)
by Jacqueline Morley
A light-hearted look at some of the difficulties faced by the pioneers who traveled by wagon train across the United States to settle in the West.
Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history.
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred-in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880-it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific Ocean and journeyed overland in response to an expanding labour market. Liping Zhu's book provides the first detailed account of this momentous conflagration and carefully delineates the story of how anti-...
Legal Development in Colonial Massachusetts 1630 - 1686
by Charles J Hilkey
The Story of the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Pittsburgh, July 4, September 27 to October 3, and November 25, 1908
by Sidney A King
Biographical Sketch and Sermon, of Elder Jacob King, of Upson County, Georgia