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1) Manifest destiny: a primary source history of America's territorial expansion in the 19th century
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This book uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the territorial expansion of the U.S. in the nineteenth century.
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In 1836, nearly 200 Texans, including Davy Crockett, were slaughtered at the Alamo by 1600 Mexicans. From the start, the story captured the American imagination, but, in the retelling, the truth about events became distorted. Over 160 later, can fact be separated from fiction?
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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
10) War on the Lakes
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If the U.S. Navy was to defeat the British during the War of 1812, it would not do so on the open seas. The battles that raged on the Great Lakes, however, would have a huge impact on the outcome of the war.
15) Live Free or Die
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Andrew Jackson rises to power and clashes with another national hero Davy Crockett over the U.S. policy towards the Native Americans and Jackson's Indian Removal Act. Meanwhile, a war with Mexico is brewing.
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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European...